This is no surprise to me but very sad and heart breaking. This should be an American headline and tag. I would like to see the stats of West Virginia as was given with Texas and Vermont.
I see one of the greatest problems in America is a lack of communication among our citizens as the biggest problem. We have many speakers and talkers but when it comes to the hard topics no one wants to hear nor listen nor work to change it. Those you hear who are the loudest are for personal gain and those you never hear from are the ones with the most profound messages to give.
We no longer have racial divisions in our country but we do have a failure to communicate and work together when addressing urban, suburban and rural area issues. The demographics of America are still third world country in many parts of our great nation.
The city folk take it for granted that you have paved streets and interstate access or safe access to opportunities to socialize and financial means to grow in educational prosperity. The urban and rural areas take it for granted that the pits of hollers, streets, and limited opportunities and resources will be all we have with what we see daily and there is no hope to get out, do better or find the equal opportunity lives we want too. We are forced to believe that we are substandard and will be treated as such.
Even our postal service in America is allowed to discriminate to delivery customers by offering door to door delivery to city customers and curbside deliveries to rural areas. Guess they don't want to ugly up the expensive communities with mailboxes.-Just another illustration of the injustice that divide in America.
There are still homes that have no public access to safe drinking water or proper sewage disposals. There are still areas of America that have no infrastructure in major road highways and transportations. There are still areas of America where labels, stigma and social ignorance still breed and reside that prevent opportunities of equality to all citizens in America.
I guarantee that most citizens who reside in their state do not even know the counties in that state they call home. I guarantee you that if they do, they have already made an uneducated guess or assumption of how to correct the problems in other places instead of looking into their own neighborhood or back door and most of the time correcting the problems in their own homes.
Americans are very resilent and stubborn by heritage. We are selfish and greedy individuals of assumptions and opinions based upon the limitations witnessed and circumstances of survival we live every day. When there are no opportunities nor hope given in the most oppressed areas of our country, you only get back in society what you feed and force citizens to believe. The bad stuff is easier to believe and accept what you see daily. This is easier to thrive and survive than to changing it. The cold reality in change is that is never comes with out majority opposition that one will face to do anything to change it.
We invest millions and thousands of dollars to build our country in a visually appealing and supreme place to be but when you get here and see our elderly, Veterans and our children are suffering or read it in the statistics you will find that all we are illusionists in a silent game of social division and unless you have someone of noteriety to fight for a good cause, you can forget being one person to work to create a change or provide hope because the work it takes to fight for change is long gone.
I was a silent child in school. I was the student that made good grades and conduct scores. I was the only person in my immediate family to graduate high school other than my father who was my abuser and predator of children. My teachers even treated me as, "if she graduates, it will be a miracle" attitude.
I was not told nor informed of SAT, ACTs or college scholarships or anything that would help me continue my education after high school because in 1995, I was a statistic that gave them the kuddos they needed because I graduated and that was enough for them because their work was done.
I was not a drop out as my brother or sister. I was not a teen mom as my sister was but I was still not worthy of one teacher, one guidance counselor or one person to say to me, "Here are resources or options that may help you after you graduate should you change your mind and want to go to college."
Most figured with all I was working through personally in therapy and with my abuse issues that if I did not commit suicide or was pregant, then I was a success. This was wrong. I never knew about SAT or ACTs until I was a mother, married and was researching to grow my educational opportunities on my own to only find out that at 20 years old you have none without a bank roll and I did not. It's sad and it's sick the price children have to truly pay for adult ignorance.
It is not the responsibility of our state or our government to intervene in our lives but it their job to ensure American rights. It is their jobs to enforce a zero tolerance policy for child abuse and neglect especially when it produces death. Children have no rights of protection in America because it is clouded with adult misconceptions of what it is and how it breeds. Until the ignorance of these blind assumption is stopped, it will never change to get the help for parents, children and our citizens of oppression in America.
Our eldery, Veterans, and children should be our first focus of investment dollars in America. Our elders paved our way to the present and it should be our duty to take care of them. Our Veterans sacrifice their lives and families to give us freedom and ensure our freedom. This should be a no brainer. Our children are our future and if we divide who are "worthy" children and who are "not worthy" children, then we are killing our future by what we fail to do for them today.
My father's family knew that my father was a child abuser before he was married and had any children. My dad sexually raped his youngest brother, my uncle, who told me out of his mouth while he was apologizing to me for never doing anything to protect me. I have had the same apologies from my aunts who failed to intervene. Any number of these family members could have sought protection to help me and my siblings or my mother from my father or at least told my mother this nasty truth before she married him and we were conceived. No one said or did anything.
Family members have an obligation to the children in their family and this country as well. Even if it becomes sibling against sibling or mother against daughter, someone has to take a stand against child abuse. Many family members become enablers of drugs, alcohol, sexual promoscuity and sexual profiting because of greed, selfishness, and a plan lack of knowledge to stop it because abuse prevention is not taught in school and our broken system of child protective custody is not equipped to handle the real issues and ramifications that come from child abuse. We are generations away from a fast solution but until people start talking and listening for social change in America, nothing will change.
Politicians, celebrities, and corporation monopolization wins in order of citizen importance and structure in America. Citizens and our children lose. Even if every American life gets disorganized to provide for our elderly, our Veterans and our children then so be it. Equal opportunities are only equal when you accept the faults of what it is and correct them then create the improvements of where it is needed and matters the most.
