WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS.....

What I want to know is, "Who stole the white from out of the red, white and blue?

It’s Friday morning, April 28, 2006 and I just got through listening to Neil Young’s new album “Living With War.” It’s replaying on my computer as I write this. A little over half way through, I heard him singing about the blue and the red, and it suddenly occurred to me, “what happened to the white?” I don’t mean white as in Caucasian. I mean white as in “inclusive of all colors.” I mean white as in pure and uniting. I mean white as in completion of the trinity of red white and blue. I mean white as in spiritual perception. When one looks at the flag of the United States of America, it is noticeable that the red stripes are separated by white stripes and the blue field is full of white stars. The white stripes and stars represent the commonality that is shared by the uniqueness of all Americans, of all people, of all of life. I think that it is time for the whiteness of unification to rise up and quell the devisive climate created by those of the red and the blue who are unable to see beyond the myopic world of their own limited color.