Headed East

[Deplorable Yankee]

Sometimes, it’s hard to see what’s right in front of your face – mostly because you don’t want to see it.

Because it’s so hard (for a decent person) to believe it. That such a thing is even possible. The hare freezes at the sight of the fox. It hopes the fox doesn’t see him.

Soon, the hare sees nothing at all.

The people being loaded onto those boxcars back in the long-ago also didn’t want to see it – because they didn’t want to believe it, either.

They froze.



Such things can’t happen, they told themselves as they queued up in line. Not in civilized countries and besides, we’ve done nothing to warrant it. We are just people and just people aren’t herded like cattle and sent to an abattoir by the government. We are just being resettled in the east.

All will be well.

They were so blind they even packed suitcases, filled with clothes they’d never wear again

Headed East . . .

Guest Post by Eric Peters Sometimes, it’s hard to see what’s right in front of your face – mostly because you don’t want to see it. Because it’s so hard (for a decent person) to believe it. That su…

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[Muhammed]

And here I thought this thread was going to be about songs featuring a cowbell.

 

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