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2009 will be remembered for a lot of things but mostly for the overt racism that exploded across the nation with the inauguration of the US’s first Black president. Along with the racism came a resurgence in anti-intellectualism. “Tea Baggers” and “Birthers” don’t seem to understand the difference between political philosophies and equate Communism and Socialism and Fascism, conflating them all into as single philosophy. This either reflects our national education system or… I don’t know what. But when the likes of Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the Aile’s and Gannett and Murdock empires are doing the educating the outcome has been, as we’ve seen, deleterious to the social, moral and political health of our nation. I don’t know what the solution is but when we raise a generation of children as the one pictured below, we need to stop what we’re doing and take a hard look at ourselves. Have we made the sacrifices necessary to maintain and protect the Constitution? Have we worked hard enough to counter the lies and misinformation that passes as news? Have we looked beyond political loyalties and placed our faith in our communities instead? When we can answer those questions with honesty and altruism we may begin to repair the damage done our nation this past decade. But you have to act and you have to act now. . . . → Read More: News That Matters – December 30, 2009 – Last Word of the Year Edition