BY RUTH GADEBUSCH
Another Women’s History Month and still no Equal Rights Amendment! Why do we need separate months for women and the just completed February one for Blacks? Aren’t we all part of the society? Isn’t history supposed to be all inclusive?
The country has now had a Black president and even several women major party candidates whom many believe would have been elected had they been in the majority power structure. Why do we need separate history months to make their contributions just as worthy of inclusion in the natural course of events?
True, the creators of our country’s valuable documents, which have served us so well, did not think of the various groups as true equals but they did give us a mechanism for allowing such development. Abigail Adams urged husband John not to forget women in this creation.
We fought a civil war/War Between the States to free the enslaved. Ever so slowly but surely since that time, various visionaries made heroic efforts to embrace the constitutional principles recognizing it was the unity that made our World War II victory possible.
Somehow that unity was overwhelmed in the election of an egomaniac as president. A healthy ego is required to manage such a lofty position, but in this case the Supreme Court and the Congress controlled by the political party of this person has been corrupted by the quest for power leaving many to fear the nation’s demise.
Led by the egomaniac current president, dissidents continue to call Barack Obama racially prejudicial names and the women candidates denigrated with various descriptions of the worst sort with the separate months used by many just to perpetrate their darkest prejudices rather than the accurate assessment of the contributions of women and minorities into our ongoing society.
We shortcut democracy when we define it as rule of the majority forgetting that part about protecting the rights of the minorities. Simple but so necessary.
We will never all agree on what or how, but we must respect that we all have the need for privacy and control of certain aspects of our lives. That must be protected and the current tripartite government is failing us greatly not because we don’t have the documents sworn to be upheld by the officials of that government but because they are abandoning their responsibility in favor or personal power.
In short: a dictatorship. There are many details that could be used as proof, but they are too obvious to need enumerating.
The time is now for us to use these documents as intended by demanding that Congress protect us by reining in this misguided use of power. It is now or never, but together we can do it.
It is respectfully that we must work together if this nation is to continue to be one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
