Let’s Not Talk Politics….But, Let’s Talk Christina Green
Posted on Jan 13, 2011 11:33:18 AM
You all know I generally steer as far from politics as I can. There are a number of reasons for that, one, I don’t like confrontation, two, I don’t follow all the laws, potential laws and such like should so why argue when you are clueless. (There are tons of folks I know who could use that piece of advice, sorry!)
Anyway, normally I would be caught up on my news because I generally watch CNN most of the day every day. However, with this crazy snow storm that’s had the kids out of school all week and Wayne just headed to work an hour or so ago, I’ve missed a lot of the news. Sure, I’ve heard enough of the tragedy that involved Christina Green to make me want to cry. And, honestly, that’s about as much as I want to hear.
And, again, I tell you, I don’t post this as a positive nod for President Obama but I certainly don’t post it as a negative one either. Let’s put politics aside and read this or watch it……(even if you heard it last night live, go to CNN or to the South Capitol Street site where I got the speech and read this part, over and over. I am willing to bet you can’t read this one piece just once.)
And in Christina — in Christina we see all of our children. So curious, so trusting, so energetic, so full of magic. So deserving of our love. And so deserving of our good example.
If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate — as it should — let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost. Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
…………………………..And I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
That’s what I believe, in part because that’s what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed.
Imagine — imagine for a moment, here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that some day she, too, might play a part in shaping her nation’s future. She had been elected to her student council. She saw public service as something exciting and hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.
I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. All of us -– we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.
As has already been mentioned, Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of 50 babies born that day to be pictured in a book called “Faces of Hope.” On either side of her photo in that book were simple wishes for a child’s life. “I hope you help those in need,” read one. “I hope you know all the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart.”.) “I hope you jump in rain puddles.”
If there are rain puddles in Heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on this Earth — here on this Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and we commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
If that doesn’t touch you, you are simply untouchable….politics aside.
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