Political Discourse

Questions the Systems Avoids

Why give a child homework with nowhere to sleep at night?
Why teach dreams on cardboard beds under flickering streetlight?
Why measure grades while hunger sharpens its knife?
Why call it failure when survival steals their time?
Why ask the homeless for hope, then lock every door tight?

Why run the same race when the starts were never the same?
Why call it merit while rigging the rules of the game?
Why praise the few who escape, then blame the rest who remain?
Why tax the poor for patience while wealth dodges the pain?
Why teach work harder in a system allergic to change?

Why build more prisons but close every school?
Why reward corruption and punish the rule?
Why flood the streets with sirens, not food?
Why call it crime when desperation is the fuel?
Why police the poor harder than the powerful few?

Why demand silence from people unheard?
Why patch broken roads, but ignore broken nerves?
Why call it amenities when dignity’s deferred?
Why fund comfort for some, while others live blurred?
Why ask for patience from lives constantly hurt?

These aren’t questions born of confusion or doubt.
They are truths we swallow, then spit back out.
We call it normal, so the bruises can hide.
We call it policy, so no one is tried.
But every unanswered why is a wound we decide.

I Am Running For President

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source: national journal

Governance in the 21st century has become a playground for who has the ball rolling. There was a time in the world where we were all ruled by a sect. The selected few had to come from a given family name and history. It has nothing to do about the “best hand of rule” but the willful sovereignty of the sect. As the human race evolved through civilization and modernization, the Greek first demonstrated representative democracy in the 6th century as a political system of government.

Centuries past by, new world leaders have emerged from Egypt to Italy to England to Germany and now United States of America. Apparently as the lion of the western world, America has been characterized as the main proponent of democracy in the rule of nations. Concurrently we have a political system that is always ready to provoke change and challenge the norm. What could not have been possible in ages past is fast becoming living realities.

A man whose lineage charts from the shores of Kenya, an African country located on the equator with the Indian Ocean has become the leader of the free world. Obama currently presides over the lion of western world. He is the president, a very diplomatic terrain as the current world leader compared to steel and iron rule of Alexander the great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler. With this undertaking, many have desired to ascend unto same throne. If Obama who could as well pass as a commoner in the empire days sit on throne, then it is an open playground for anyone who can get the ball rolling. (more…)