People are indeed strange when you really are a stranger

The song "People are Strange" contains the line "People are strange when you're a stranger." Although I do agree with this...I had came up with "Humans are Cruel when you're a human." Because while sitting in class and being read about the Hiroshima survivors of WWII (The day before I was reading about what the Americans did to the Native Americans), I was pained because I was forced to remember what people went through to have the same rights as others.

Talk about rights, why does anyone care who marry who and how does their marriage effect you? I don't consider myself a misanthrope but I believe the more people act like they are entitled to declare their beliefs and let everyone else suffer, then I shall go down that road. People have shown me little hope except their knowledge of politics but even then the future of America seems dismal from my point of view.

I went to a peace rally/ march on Saturday. I was sort pumped up because of the talk of human rights, peace and anti-torture. Also the fact that my now orange hair supported the cause of anti-torture seem to humor me at the time. But the flip side to this rally was that the people blamed Obama who won a nobel peace prize. It's not really an oxymoron since Nobel was the one who started making liquid nitrogen to make the supreme weapon so that war was impossible, which is ironic. But they blamed Obama nonetheless for their suffering and my roommate pointed out that he hadn't been office that long of a time. To my thinking, I would blame the leader of the country too but people thought after a week of being in office he was supposed to fix everything, but how could he when he up against the slowest group of people to decide anything? Yes, I mean Congress. (Pro vs. Con. The opposite of progress is congress!)

By the way, asteism or backhanded compliment is an insult that sounds like a compliment. My friend constantly gives these out, sometimes unknowingly and you're stuck wondering what the meaning behind her statement is. When I speak, I try not to involve any meaning because I save it for my writing, yet human nature in other people evalutate my words and find meaning in them that I didn't even see.