Full Steam Ahead with the Message

Posted on September 4, 2009 in Civic Responsibility Culture Wars Education

The onslaught of negative media coverage regarding a simple public address to school children must be seen as part of a plan: to erase the message of Hope. How else can you explain the apparent opposition to the principle of working hard in school and making sure that you graduate?

In responding to this, I have seen liberals and progressives faltering into exactly what the reactionaries and hatebaggers want — forgetting the dream. It’s been said that conservatives vote their fears while liberals vote their dreams. We must remember our dreams just as we did during last year’s successful campaign to unseat Republican rule in this country.

The aim for our nation’s students is to be well-educated and smart, to have the intellectual tools they need to think for themselves. It may be that they come up with means of living together that transcend our current politics. Let those minds develop and grow with one another.

Their parents aren’t doing so well.

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UPDATE (9/9/2009): Now George W. Bush is planning to give his own talk to Texas schoolchildren. Dubya seems determined to make his place in history as the man who divided the country. Maybe he will surprise us, but I doubt it.