Times have changed...so, quit complaining - Cranston Herald
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To the Editor:
I am white. I am male. I am also 68 and a Vietnam Era veteran. And I am angry.
And
I know many people my age who are also angry. They see gays and
lesbians demanding the right to get married. They see a black man in the
White House with a strange sounding name, changing our health care
system and suggesting that we as a nation might have something to do
with the sorry state of affairs in the world.
To my fellow seniors
who are upset and alarmed at this, I have a message: Stop feeling sorry
for yourself! Enough of your whining! The world is changing, and it's
about time you got off your mental easy chair and did the same! Your
stubborn resistance to change is maddening!
Upset about gay
lifestyle? I am married more than 40 years ... to a woman ... and I do
not in any way feel threatened by gays and lesbians who wish to be wed.
Here's some advice – one senior to another – try minding your own
business.
When I see you no longer eating pork or working on Sunday,
then I'll take your Bible-based opposition to gay marriage seriously.
And
while you are at it, stop complaining about this so-called “socialist”
president as you sit in your easy chairs collecting both Medicare and
Social Security. And don't swallow the hogwash about a Republican saving
Medicare and a Democrat “robbing” it. Please, don't make seniors look
senile by swallowing that lie. ( I'll deal with that lie in my next
letter.)
You constantly lament how things have gotten worse. Yes, they have.
Ours
was a noble generation that fought for Medicare, for equal rights for
women and blacks, clean air and water and decent wages for all. Now too
many of us fight for tax breaks for the wealthiest few and more power
and money for corporations. How noble is that?
We admired and
respected broadcasters like Walter Cronkite and Paul Harvey. Men of
integrity. Now we are taken in by any right-wing blowhard with a
microphone, the biggest being a four-times married, self-admitted drug
abuser. Another so insane, even Fox News dropped him.
And, yes, there
is a black man in the White House. It's a sign of the changing face of
America. I fully understand for many this is an uncomfortable sign; your
old world is gone. For most, what you feel is not bigotry; it's fear.
Deep down fear.
Please! It's 2012. Stop fearing change! Embrace it!
Welcome it as we did so many years ago because change is here and will
continue with or without our help.
Charlie Lawrence
Johnston
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