We now have our first conviction of one of the insurrectionist that stormed our Capitol. It is eight months in jail. A White male storms the Capitol with a group of people that want to overthrow a branch of our Government and he only gets eight months in jail. Now there is a women in Texas that has been sentenced to five years in prison for voting in Texas while being a felon from a tax conviction. She claimed it was a mistake. She wasn’t registered and was assisted by a poll worker in filling out a provisional ballet. It was caught and not counted. I would call that no harm, no foul but the Texas Courts gave her five years. Oh, did I mention that she is Black. A White male storms the Capitol, if successful would have toppled our government and get a eight month sentence. A Black female votes illegally, claims it was a mistake and get a five year sentence. There was no attempt to overthrow the government and the vote didn’t even count. I need someone tell me how this is equal justice under the law. To me this screams that racism is alive and well in America. I wish that Senator Scott would go on National TV and explain it.

That fact that the law is not being applied equally is a real problem in America. The United States leads the world in incarcerations. We have 25 percent of all the people in jail worldwide even though we just have 5 percent of the population. Of the people in jail here in America over 60 percent are people of color. We have a real problem in this country and it has to do a lot with racism. Just look at the sentence for the White insurrectionist and the Black voter fraud. Eight months for the White guy and five years for the Black lady. I am pretty sure that you can find all kinds of similar incidences.

The question that I always ask myself is why do we view the races so differently morally?  Why do we view a Black person as more evil than a White person? Trump called Mexican criminals and rapist. That is one of the most bigoted statements that I have ever heard a President say. The problem is that he said it and people believed him. Too often we project an image of White people good and everyone else is bad or inferior. This is why history is important. There have been dictators that have said that their people were good and that other people were the problem. That way of thinking has led to the murder of millions of people. I would encourage everyone to tour that Holocaust Museum on Washington DC. It was a real eye opening experience for me.

Our democracy was attacked on January 6^th and we have to come to grips with that. The same attitude that gripped Germany in the 1930s I fear grips our country now. We hold an election and by all standards it appears to be a fair election. The courts have deemed it a fair election. I would be willing to bet that there was probably less voter fraud in this last election than in some of the others. I have no proof of that, just a gut feeling from what I have observed. The people that tried to bring down our government in my opinion should be treated more severely than some grandmother in Texas that said she made a mistake and was actually assisted at the poles to vote. We must not let our America become what Germany became in the 1930s.

We need equality in the law for everyone. We call ourselves a Christian nation but we really are anything but one. The word of that man their religion is based on is no longer the one that they are following. He did not enter politics and he did not preach the suppression of people because of their race, or sexual orientation. He did not walk with King Herod or Pontius Pilate. He walked with the poor and suppressed. He would not be building a wall he would be building a boat to help people cross that river.

If you are going to cry Freedom it must be freedom for everyone and not just Republicans. You cannot have freedom for some and suppression for others and call yourself a free nation. America can be made greater than what it already is if we have real equality under the law.