i'm no activist.

After watching "Milk" and living amongst the "redneck" tradition most of my life, I realized something special. If my time spent in Rockwell has taught me anything, it's ignorance. It's almost unimaginable the ignorance that many in this town portray, in aversion to blacks, as well as homosexuals and Mexicans. Basically, if it isn't white, "it ain't right." My decision to leave this literal God-forsaken place one day is in this aforementioned fact. I can't imagine what it would be like, to live in a place where people are treated as people, where humility runs rampant, and where compassion overrides religious damnation. Gays, blacks, Muslims = people. Towns like this make me sick to my stomach in their hypocrisy of "Christlike" attitudes where they believe that compassion should be balanced with the wrath of Sodom and Gomorrah. The way the world looks now, I doubt that our naturally chaotic human ways will ever reach any virtuous pinnacle where honesty overrides greed, where pragmatism overrides dogma, and moreover, where love is pure and without bias.

God bless the united states of bigotry and tradition.