In addition to the division in the nation, all sides are intractably positioned. The effect is that not enough is being done to address the root-problems which, inevitably, give rise to gang violence, police profiling, inner-city poverty, the lack of a way up, the lack of a way out.

     Nothing is being done to alleviate the fear between police and citizenry, existent racism, the lack of quality educational opportunities, the lack of investment in the inner cities — and the list goes on and on and on.

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    The divisions are deeply seated and opposing in varying degrees of extremism. Yet, the U.S. Citizenry, the Legal & Illegal Immigrants, and ALL of the Political Parties & Sides – as diametrically aligned against each other, as they are – ALL have one thing in common:

     They do little to nothing for the plight of our nation’s inner-city inhabitants, except, that is, to moan and groan and blame and finger-point...

     They love to point out what the other sides are not doing... but what is anyone doing to rectify anything???

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     Oh, there is frequent, almost constant, demonstrating, ranting, name-calling, hating, baiting, back-stabbing, in-fighting — even lobbying & law-making  (which is merely a more polite way to describe more of the same), and do you know what these exercises are perpetually labeled?

     Yes;  Raising Awareness is the noble, but meaningless phrase to all of the above-described methods of operation.... operations or exercises in futility that bring nothing but division, hatred, and violence...

     I ask you:  What good is being made aware when frustration, animosity, and even hate, are the harbingers of awareness???

      It's not like we are not ALL aware of our inner-city plights and circumstances... 

     And all of the passionate – and misguided – actions and demonstrations and political activism, do not even take into account the callous indifference of those not even passionate enough to be bothered by the fact that there are those in our midst, right here in America, who are hurting and hopeless and not receiving real and valid opportunities for healing, for progressing, and actual abilities to escape their circumstances...

     Those that are perched atop their judgmental attitudes, without even the will to express their unjustifiable disdain and fear of and for those of lesser station...

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     Despite the truths on each side of the division, raising awareness has accomplished little, beyond bickering back and forth, while our citizens suffer and die and destroy each other...

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     ALL sides have some truth...

     ALL sides are largely unbending.

ALL sides are blind to the same central fact:

     Our Founding Fathers had the only truth that matters.​

Together we stand. Divided we fall.