Where do we go from here?

Texas...our national football championship state...our lonestar state...our bastion of liberal thought. Oh wait, oops. Texas and it's challenged cousin, Florida, have made it into the news recently with an onslaught of forward thinking delictables of tolerance and intelligence. Or something like that. Lets start with Texas.
A state known for football, racism, the death penalty, and the pain associated with driving through it's enormity. Did I miss anything? Well, anyway. In the news..."White Teens accused of Brutal Racist Attack." Apparently a 16 year old hispanic boy allegedly tried to kiss a 12 year old white girl at a party. In response, 2 white boys, one 17, the other 18, "forced the boy out of the house party, beat him and sodomized him with a metal pipe, shouting epthets 'associated with being Hispanic.'" Alright now where do we even begin with the problems of this statement. Let's start with the party, because it seems a little more simple. What the hell is a 12 year old doing at a house party being attended by 16, 17 and 18 year olds. Where are parents. Where are authority figures. Where are the people who are supposed to be responsible. Whatever...this is a problem that can be linked to any number of problems facing our children. If all of these right wingers want to focus on a family values issue, how about instead of focusing so much attention on same sex marriages or abortion, how about the whole latch key issue. how about the fact that so many families are forced to be dual income households just to stay afloat. how about the fact that families are placing the blame for bad parenting on any number of things ranging from video games, music, television, schools, the government, but never themselves. how about a little responsibility. everyone points fingers but no one stands up and recognizes that we are essentially the only animal whose parents don't take care of their young. we offer financial support, but don't spend the time, don't provide the attention, the nurture, the necessary care and love needed to develop a healthy and strong youth.
Problem two: this one is a little more obvious. 2 white children beat, and sodomize an hispanic boy. After doing so, I might add, they dumped bleach on him (in an effort to dispose of evidence). All the while calling him vulgar names. What year is it? Did i get jaunted back into some other decade. How is it that the youth of american can still see such disgusting racial boundaries. What ever happened to the concept of America being a melting pot of religion and race. A melting pot would imply that there were some kind of mixing and blending. But thats not the america I see. I see us living in a world where 2 duke boys rape an african american stripper, where 3 south carolina boys lynch a black boy, where two ignorant white boys rape an hispanic in texas. Where people not only focus on the differences of religion when looking at muslims, jews, christians, but even if you are christian you have to be the right kind of christian. we look for reasons to hate people, to keep the concept of us and them as present and prevalent as possible. There's always that word "they." Who they are changes, but it's always used to separate you from 'them.' generally its used to distinguish yourself as superior and 'them' as inferior. But it exists, of course it does, and instead of making efforts as a society to embrace the concept of love shared by nearly all religions, we use our faith to separate and judge, to damn those around us. We are intelligent people, i guess, why is it that we can't see that we are all the same, we come from the same place. If evolution is right, then white people are white because over time they moved to colder climates with less direct sunlight. Therefore, the noses are longer and thinner, in an effort to warm the air going into the body, and the skin is paler. Black people are darker because they located themselves in a region closer to the equator. the nose is shorter and thinner because, obviously, at the equator, there is no need to warm the air. If the Bible is right, and we were all created. wouldn't that make all white people, black people, muslims, arabs, hindus, hippies, democrats, republicans, etc...brothers and sisters. If adam was made in God's image, and Eve created from Adam's rib...would we not all have stemmed from these two people. Does the Bible say, oh and after that, God created a bunch of other people and was like yeah, whatever, Adam came first so he's cool, the rest of ya'll, you know, whatever. i don't remember that in genesis, but hey, what do i know. Either way, we don't want to hear this stuff, we like to think of things as a better than or worse. We are better than them, because they are "they." We need this, we want this. We teach our kids our own ignorance, hoping to keep that concept of fear, hate and ignorance in its own melting pot. And this we brew, and damnit if we don't make this shit better than grape kool-aid. We are fucking pros. if we could sell the drink we'd put coke and pepsi to shame, with how much people seem interested in embracing this particular poison.
I continue...
Florida is now in a row in which they are trying to determine if an inmate feels the pain associated with a lethal injection. here's some news for ya guys, they did this study, in louisiana, and yeah, they feel everything. I believe the phrasing was that it would feel equivalent to your insides turning inside out. But wait, it's peaceful, i mean they don't move or anything so it should be totally okay. But here's the thing smarty pants, they are paralyzed. of course they aren't going to move. but it doesn't mean that they can't feel what is happening. brain activities still functioning, nervous system still doing that whole synapse thing. It's cruel and unusual punishment, anyway you look at it.
I'm done. I could keep going but i'm not.