We don't want to pass on this national debt
to our children.
We don't want our children to be worse off
than we are.
We don't want our children to be denied the
freedom our founding fathers passed on to us.
Our children? Our founding fathers?

May we ask, Whose founding fathers? May we also inquire about the unmentioned or unmentionable founding mothers? Were there any, at least, worth mentioning?

Our Children? Just as the founding fathers' assertion in the  Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," did not include slaves, not even those they sired, the utterances of our children in a contemporary tongue does not include black Americans in the same sense as white Americans. Evidence indicating the validity of this statement is obvious in the behavior of pontificators of our children, in general, and so-called minority children, in particular. Their actions have resulted in the disparity between black and white children.  According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 2009 the poverty rate for black children under 18 was 35.4% and for white children 11.7%.

Actions and policies of these pontificators of our children account for the mass incarceration of black males, (many of whom are juveniles) comprising 46.2% of the prison population even though blacks comprise only 12% of the population. After ex-felons are released from prison they are denied jobs, the right to live in public housing and the right to vote. But these so-called defenders of the future of our children express no concern for children of today.

Beware! These pontificators and defenders of the bequest we pass on to our children must be viewed in light of their records with regard to what they have done that could be called children abuse. Like their founding fathers and forefathers they have excluded many black and poor children, often in the name of states rights which was used to prevent me from voting in my native state of Alabama after I returned from serving in the Korean war. Prior to enactment of the nineteen sixty-five Voting Rights Act disfranchisement of black Americans existed in all the Southern states.

Whose Children? Our Children?
The greatest benefit that can be pased on to our children is moral, not economic. Not even debt or debt-free can be compared with moral conduct. Think about the moral legacy of slavery the founding fathers and forefathers pontificators of our children passed on to their descendants and the dsscendants of those they enslaved. The moral trumps the economic. Let this generation pass on to our children a record of moral accomplishments stamped with justice. Let this generation and those who follow accept this mandate of the Prophet Amos who exclaimed rightly and forthrightly "
          "Let justice run down like waters, and
           righteousness as a mighty stream"
                                           (Amos 5:24)

Copyright 2011 by Uriah J. Fields