Enga mellom fjella

"Anti-American? Moi?"

This is my response to "Invalid Entry"  by GeminiStar for "Follow the Leader"   by mood indigo .

I see America as:

1. A place where my parents raised me. A place where others yearned to come to or fled to. A place where my grandparents' and great-grandparents' bones have been planted.

2. A place where people from all over the planet have taken advantage of the Native American's hospitality, but not always been good house-guests.

3. A landscape that has been abused the last two-three hundred years by the greedy offspring of those who raped the lands they came from. Only a few of their offspring are now willing to accept responsibility for sustaining the land that allows them to breathe.

4. A cultural melting of disparate influences from all over the world. No fences are high enough to keep out the neighbor's music, the lilt of their tongues, their concepts and philosophy, their artistry.

5. A land afraid of change. Defining the 'good old times' as a place to go back to, America is a place that fears to embrace the vision of the future of humanity. A place that more than anywhere on earth is the testing grounds for whether the human race can go forward together in peace or whether it fades away as so many other species in the history of this miniscule 3rd planet around a 2nd rate sun in a galaxy that is only one in a million.

So, when someone questions my religious, spiritual, cultural, social or political views that are much broader and embracing of the human condition ("Human Rights are God given Rights" that belong to each and everyone of us) than their narrow personal or group belief systems that seek to define (for everyone) what it is to be "American", excluding me and many others, do I need to ask: Where do you want me to go back to? Where did YOU come from?

Or do I merely accept that they too are a voice of America?

This is my 18th and last response for FTL.

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My previous entries:

1. "Crying children"  Circle round in adoration
2. "Gone, fishing"  Old tin bucket
3. "How I behave around different people"  In five part disharmony; also in "Friendship and family" 
4. "Level 28 Blood Elf Hunter"  Letter from Kwn
5. "Hobo stew"  Sopa
6. "She wants to know if I'm lost"  Anemones
7. "Thirteen ways of looking at a blank page"  Counting back from 13
8. "Sarcasm dripping from most of its wonderful crevices"  Me Attitude
X. "And they paved paradise"  ... me very own lead entry ...
9. "This time last year"  March any year
10. "Well whaddya know?"  Well whaddya know?
11. "Bonus (Bones, Bones R Us, Us Bones)"  ... for Shannon's "Bonus".
12. "Easter isn't really about bunnies" 
13. "Birthdays and Boundaries, What a Bonus!"  Birthdays and boundaries
14. "Zany Schemes"  Birth and Death of Dreams
15. "Not only did I fall off the desk"  Making a fool of myself
16. "Under the influence of being an asshole (black and blue)"  and "Red-and-black rant: under the influence of being an asshole" 
17. "IDK MY BFF JILL" 

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