Ain't That America

John Mellencamp created a great song back in 1983 and called it "Pink Houses", it is better known as Ain't That America.

Recent times have given rise to question the veracity of that statement, with a weeks worth of violence supposedly caused by the improper death of a citizen called George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota. 

Floyd was being arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, he had served a previous 5 years prison term for aggravated armed robbery in a home invasion back in 2009, he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs when arrested recently. He had lost his job during the Chinese Virus lock downs, so I guess that he was desperate for funds and tried to pass the counterfeit at a grocery store.

In my simple way of thinking, you do not go down the road of criminality to survive, there are many other avenues that can be taken for survival, even in America. Food kitchens, charities, all aplenty in America.

Other pundits have predicted the death of America as it currently stands because of the looting and rioting at present, this has been stated many times in the past because of looting and rioting, America, the most free market place in the world, has and will bounce back from these outbursts of illegality.

Certain parts of the American population still hold onto the victim mentality, blaming others for their plight in life, using this as an excuse to loot and pillage at will, based upon the perceived outrageous death of an "innocent" man.

Until those sections of society take on board their self responsibility, these illegal outbursts will occur in the future.

Looking at other countries that have survived and thrived with past social norms now considered the bane of society, we can see Australia itself as a successful transformer from penal colony (slavery by arrest) to modern Democracy. 

The United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Rome, India, China, all ancient societies and still some modern societies have or had slavery as a social norm. It is nothing new and is understood and it is up to the individual to have the opportunity, either grabbed or forced, to take control of their own life.

The current unrest in America is not about a lone citizen meeting his demise at the hands of authority, it is about the selective creation of an advantage by the left of American politics to fester and further destabilise and create greater division within society. It is about looters getting free goods that others work has created, it is about the worst intents of humanity against their fellow citizens.

America will survive, it will grow, and the words from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus:-    

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

will continue to draw the hopeful to its own shore.

Ain't That America.