Mother Earth Is In Pain

Mother Earth Is In Pain And Ailing - Bglobal Warming. The World Is Dealing With Issues Of Immigration, Deindustrialization, And Poverty. When I Was Born, There Were 2.5 Billion People Living On The Whole Planet. Now There Are 2.5 Billion People Living On Less Than $2 A Day. That's The Kind Of Reality We Have To Deal With.

If We Talk About Literacy, We Have To Talk About How To Enhance Our Children's Mastery Over The Tools Needed To Live Intelligent, Creative, And Involved Lives.

Kids Made Fun Of Me Because I Was Dark Skinned, Had A Wide Nose, And Was Dyslexic. Even As An Actor, It Took Me A Long Time To Realize Why Words And Letters Got Jumbled In My Mind And Came Out Differently.

I Remember When Langston Hughes Used To Write A Column In Black Newspapers Around This Character Jesse B. Semple. He Always Used That As A Voice, Sometimes In Comic Ways, Of Having Everyday People's Voice Come Through This Common Folk Hero, Who Was An Ordinary Working Guy. He Would Talk About Anything From Police Brutality To The Korean War. Those Kinds Of Expression And Identification Are No Longer Prevalent In Our Popular Culture.

We Live In A Climate Of Fear, And Because Of This Whole Ideology Of Consumption Almost To The Point Of Religion.