Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Sorry your sons real sick but ...tough
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June 27, 2017 8:20 PM
Sorry your sons 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. Thats 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.
Thats how Americans are born.