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American Rainbow

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies that bounce over potholes in the big cities of America. For them money matters. If blacks stop riding buses the buses will be empty except for other poor folk white, red, yellow, brown who don’t drive cars but are too few to keep the buses bouncing. Everyone will understand that black lives matter when everyone understands that black money matters not to blacks alone but to all stripes in the American rainbow. Donal Mahoney

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Date: 4/18/2017 2:59:00 PM
Wow Donal, you have outdone yourself with this one, sharp wit and a sharper reality put together with excellent poetic language, nice one! 7 :) xomo
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Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 4/18/2017 3:48:00 PM
Life is an intrinsic issue for us human beings, I believe all other creatures would manage without issue without us. It blows my mind how cruel our species can be. We're not so far apart you and me, racism cuts my heart asunder too. I hope you find hope again. Take care, Maureen.
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Donal Mahoney
Date: 4/18/2017 3:04:00 PM
Maureen, You've been kind enough to read my stuff and likely know by now I'm conservative on life issues when it comes to abortions, euthanasia and executions. For me all life matters. But racism in America is full blown, worse than I was a white case worker in Chicago in Cabrini Green Housing Project with 458 black families. Things are much worse now. The Kennedys and MLK were live then and we had hope. I have no sense of hope now when it comes to race, a little hope when it comes to life issues.

Book: Shattered Sighs