From physical slavery to debt slavery, Americans should go see the movie Lincoln

Finally I was able to watch Lincoln!!! (Set out one night to do so and that evening didn’t turn out the way I thought)…but that’s okay because tonight was the right night. I can’t begin to say how impressed I am; or how saddened that it took so long for our nation to accomplish what should have been self-evident to all men. The words; “He is no longer with us; he belongs now to the ages,” I find haunting.

I am deeply disturbed at the sight of our nation today and the apathy of many that we seem to care more about continuing to accept the status quo that has created the deep inequality among men that we see once again, than I can possibly say. That we go about our way failing to realize how important it is for Americans to stand together once again to defeat a new oppression that will, if continued; enslave once again a huge portion of our population; this time in economic slavery rather one based on race; one that will affect us all.

Lincoln’s words from his 2nd Inaugural Address have me close to tears; “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

Just as there were men who wanted the right to oppress others then; there are amongst us a new breed of men who are working diligently to accomplish the same purpose; we call them businessmen and some, just as before, are our politicians. Will this new dilemma deliver the same result; with thousands of bodies to show for our lack of compassion toward one another? Maybe every American should watch this movie…not only watch it but absorb it's message and truly take it to heart...that it is the general welfare of mankind that is important; a nation is its PEOPLE; not its might or its wealth! It is not too late to achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations…unless we give up, abandon the fight for right, and allow it to occur.

From one of my good friends, Nancy Forbush.