8 September









It traveled with us as we looked at our worlds speeding by
It puffed its foul thick smoke into the very air of our cities and towns

we look out from our windows of perception at the world speeding by and
did we know it traveled with us?

Did it live in all of us -this thing with a pulse
this thing on the opposite side of the table
that sat
-or stood, though there were chairs to spare


Is it true what they say?
that children are not born with prejudice?
I can't remember back that far.





the mag




Comments

  1. murgen8 September 2013 at 19:38

    A good question.

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  2. murgen8 September 2013 at 19:41

    A good question. I feel that children are born as a clean slate but with a genetic, defensive proclivity towards prejudice.

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  3. murgen8 September 2013 at 19:41

    Another good one baby. :)

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  4. LaTonya Baldwin8 September 2013 at 19:44

    thanks for coming by and thank for asking the question.

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  5. Pondside8 September 2013 at 19:45

    Learned - it's definitely learned.

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  6. Steve LaVigne8 September 2013 at 19:59

    Hard not to see it in those pictures unless you are deaf to the realities of history or even the present with our have and have not society dividing us by race and poor against poor

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  7. Ginny Brannan9 September 2013 at 08:19

    I think it is most definitely "learned." Ignorance locks people in certain mindsets, and knowledge and understanding hold the key to that lock. I can appreciate questions your piece posed.

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  8. R. Burnett Baker9 September 2013 at 08:41

    And with Rockwell, we believed life to be so simple.....

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  9. Helen9 September 2013 at 08:43

    One word ... awesome!

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  10. Kathe W.9 September 2013 at 14:38

    one has to be taught....thank goodness my parents taught me the right way to be and care.

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  11. aspiritofsimplicity9 September 2013 at 16:22

    I don't hate white people. I don't hate any one at all and I don't make decisions about people based on the color of their skin.

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  12. Wayne9 September 2013 at 16:25

    nicely done

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  13. Tess Kincaid10 September 2013 at 12:21

    Hard to remember back that far, indeed...nice write...

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  14. Unknown11 September 2013 at 14:04

    Be assured that it is indeed true.

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