We Must Do More Than Say It!

When I was young I was told America was great! It was the country I adored… I believed America was the greatest country in the world… I don't believe that anymore. Can we call ourselves a great country this America we're living in… when people are discriminated against because of the the color of their skin? Can we call ourselves a great country or have we all been marred when people are discriminated against for who they love and who they are? When you stop to think about it… Can we call this country great when some people use their religion to justify their hate? Where we forget our servicemen and women… Where we don't even make a fuss or fight to take care of the very people who fight to take care of us. When money is more important than the environment, more important than our oceans and our seas more important than the animals more important than the trees? Where we don't have health car for everyone.? Where we don't welcome everyone to our shore? Where there is still a huge discrepancy between those who are rich…and those who are poor? Where unimaginable numbers have been murdered as each new killer tries to top it… Where we say how sorry we are at the family's loss… but do nothing at all to stop it. And now…this latest horror… our country is inflicting this harm… by ripping babies and children from their immigrant mother's arms… When I was young I was told America was great. back then life was such a blur… And though I knew we had some problems I truly thought we were…. But I don't believe that anymore Although in my heart I hope and pray it… Now I believe if America is ever to be great we must to do more than say it.