Up The Middle

mood: angry

music: "Presidential" Youngbloodz

This was so good that i couldn't help but post it. My girlfriend and I both sent scathing letters to the illustrous Rep. Kern (if you don't know what this is about go here and listen http://community.livejournal.com/bi_pride/121385.html- i forewarn you that its apalling to say the least). My diatribe however didn't hold a candle to Lace's and so i post it here for all to read. Enjoy. (I really wish i had a recording of her reading it to me but oh well you'll have to live with print)  And i encourage each and everyone of you who is equally offended by this spiteful woman (did i mention when confronted she claimed she said nothing that wasn't true) to type your own letter to her here sallykern@okhouse.gov - they may not be read but at least she'll know that everyone was listening....

(and the evil part of me hopes theres so many it crashes her mail server;)

Dear Representative Kern,

I realize you aren’t my representative, but you are an elected official, and I feel that all elected officials have some responsibilities to all citizens of the country they serve. I am also a teacher, a white, Christian, middle class American.  And I’m listening. 

I heard what you said about gays and lesbians. I heard your hate-mongering.  I was listening when you butchered our Declaration of Independence.  I would like to remind you that our forefathers set forth that document in order to protect all citizens of this nation.  And you, an elected official, a person bound by law and rights to serve this document, you have said that some people, like some religions, are not all equal.  Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues did not agree with you on that sentiment, thank God. 

Also, you mention indoctrination several times.  You say that “they” are infiltrating our civic leaderships and other segments of power.  “They” are perverting two year olds in schools.  “They.”   I don’t know if you’ve ever met “they” or spoken to “they,” but in the past, when “they” was used, it was to oppress and enslave others.  To title a group or class of people “they” shows how little regard you have for other humans and the lives they choose to lead.  So I will refrain from using they, I’ll stick to you and we. 

We are listening.  You have spoken.  You didn’t think anyone would hear you and call you on the hate that you spewed forth like a KKK member at a clan rally.  You didn’t know that one individual was in the audience listening for the world.  But I heard it all the way in Georgia.  I’m sure, at the moment I write this letter, that thousands of others, we, are listening now. 

We heard you call us unequal, “they,” and sundry other derogatory names.  We heard you say we were going to hell, that our loved ones would die of diseases, that our family was not equal to you and yours.  We heard all that.  And now, are you listening?  Can you hear us?  Can you hear the pens hit paper, can you hear the clack of computer keys?  Can you hear our voice being lifted to the heavens, to my God and all other gods?  Can you hear that?  Can you hear the chorus of voices crying in outrage, all screaming for your job?  Can you?  Listen carefully.  You’ll hear it. 

We listened and we heard.  When you go before your God and you stand in judgment, how  will you answer for discriminating against the people He made in His image and has promised to love and forgive of all sins.  That He sent down His only son to pay for our mistakes and trespasses.  I think that even the blood of the lamb will be loathe to wash this sin from your hands.  Like Brutus at the fall of Caesar, you stand before the nation with blood on your hands.  You have spoken hate and breathed your contagion into the world.  You are the problem, Mrs. Kern.  Your inability to see people for people, equal for equal, and getting wrapped up in your own religious baggage, you are the problem.  Not “they.”  Not us.  Not we.  You.

I’m still listening Mrs. Kern.  What have you to say for yourself now?  If you had picked a different “they,” a dark skinned, African-American “they,” would you have the audacity to defend your words then?  If your “they” was aimed at Christians or at Latino Americans, would you still stand as firm?  I think not Mrs. Kern.  For we all know, after all the fights of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that there is no equality in separation, no equality when we use the word “they.”  As a fellow teacher, you should know well the Brown v. Board of Education case and its outcome.  You should know that separate is never equal.  Wake up.  Listen up.  Don’t go the way of Margaret Sanger who believed in selective breeding and birth control for the masses as a way to control which populations increased.  You don’t want to be remembered as what you have become today, a hate-mongering bigot.