Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Sorry your sons real sick but ...tough

[babylonsister]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/article158531204.html


June 27, 2017 8:20 PM
‘Sorry your son’s real sick but … tough’

BY LEONARD PITTS, JR.

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“Sorry about your son.”

There is something chilling about that dismissal, something deeply selfish and antithetical to a nation founded upon an ideal of individual human worth. One is reminded of a Springsteen song: “We Take Care of Our Own.”

But do we still believe that? Or are we now a nation where we only take care of ourselves?

“Sorry about your son?!”

No. That’s not good enough.

We pay taxes, fund libraries, schools, fire and police departments and, yes, healthcare, so that her son and all our sons and daughters have the best possible shot at the best possible life. At some point, you have to grow up and realize that you are not in this world only to gratify yourself, that each of us has an obligation to all of us, and that this is where our goodness — and thus, our greatness — resides.

That’s how Americans are born.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Leonard Pitts, Jr is an amazing writer.

I read every column that comes out on the KC Star.