{"id":21,"date":"2008-02-22T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/22\/on-generation-one\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:28:05","slug":"on-generation-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/22\/on-generation-one\/","title":{"rendered":"On Generation One"},"content":{"rendered":"

“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”<\/span><\/span>\u00a0-Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span>
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Hypocrisy does not mean you can’t sell your soul.\u00a0 How many people who are in the closet on many issues, are themselves what that issue is about?\u00a0 How many gay leaders of govt are themselves gay, or race baiters who are themselves fathers of a mixed race child?\u00a0 If you think that because a racial divide does not exist because there are more races in places they were not before, then you are sadly mistaken. By this i mean blacks in government or doing more than preaching, hispanics doing more than nannies and window washers.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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I’ve always been confident that America is a melting pot.\u00a0 So far, ALL immigrants have been integrated after their period of being singled out.\u00a0 Unfortunately it’s the time of the Muslims, but even so, they are already making progress and soon it just won’t matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Race in america is akin to classism elsewhere, we see what we want to see. But while i have no real data, i offer you this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the kids two generations back (the Millennium generation) , race played little part, on a one to one basis, or a one to many (with friends) basis.\u00a0 This is just a fact.\u00a0 I see men and women of different cultures and races mixing without a problems.\u00a0 Generation X, was the first mold breaker, Generation y, the young rebels, and Generation Millennium, who have no idea what the fuss is about, but do know better than to expose their friends to their Baby Boomer and Leave it to Beaver Generation. Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The problems come in (as i know, and have experienced) when the GEN Y and MEL Generation have to take your significant other (of another race) home.\u00a0 In the quote of someone very close to me.\u00a0 “What ever we do, what ever happens, I can’t take you home.\u00a0 My parents… “<\/p>\n

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I didn’t need to hear any more, and neither do you. \u00a0 There are certain fundamental facts. \u00a0 Some of the same people who were 40 years ago preaching a divide and willing to kill any person of color or non white race in America, are now running this Great american country and writing laws protecting the rights of the individual or races.\u00a0 Do I believe they have changed? Yes. Some. Others, have just realized it’s useless to buck the trend and as long as they are not forced to ask because \u00a0“They have a lot of Gay\/Black\/Hispanic. Friends too” \u00a0*good by WWII generation, and settle in Baby Boomers, it’s a bumpy ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Least I drift, this post is not about race really, or affirmative action.\u00a0 It’s about my belief that in 4-5 generations from Generation X (remember, I’m already looking too back) … it will be over. \u00a0 I will not live to see it i think, but i am glad i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. \u00a0 After the\u00a0Millennium\u00a0generation there can only be one generation that matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Welcome Generation One.<\/p>\n

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