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2021

SOCIAL UNITY VS SOCIAL DISUNITY

A — Maya Angelou- ‘’Letter to my daughter’’
Book published in 2009 by Penguin Random House
A message of national unity and hope from Maya Angelou(1928-2014) to all Americans
( Maya Angelou is a famous American poet, author and academic)

Chapter 21 — National Spirit

For the past four decades our national spirit and natural joy have ebbed. Our national expectations have diminished . Our hope for the future has waned to such a degree that we risk sneers and snorts of derision when we confess that we are hoping for bright tomorrows.

How have we come so late and lonely to this place? When did we relinquish our desire for a high moral ground to those who clutter our national landscape with vulgar accusations and gross speculations?

Are we not the same people who have fought a war in Europe to eradicate an Aryan threat to murder an entire race? Have we not worked , prayed, planned to create a better world? Are we not the citizens who struggled, marched, and went to jail to obliterate legalized racism from our country? Didn’t we dream of a country where freedom was in the national conscience and dignity was the goal?
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October 1, 2021

2021

Personal Comments and Impressions (D)

(The following are my commentaries on Social Issues, Current Events, Concepts and also Personal Impressions of people and everyday life)

No News is Good News

a) A letter to the Editors of the British magazine ‘’The New Statesman’’

July 2021,

Dear Editors,

This is the second letter that I am writing to your magazine, the first one I sent in August of 2020, which I am including part of the text so you will be reminded of the content.

The first letter dealt with the current event subject of Meghan Merkle and Prince Harry, which I published it on my website(meta-morphosis.gr), knowing full well that you wouldn’t make any editorial reference to it in the section of your magazine where you allow commentaries from your readers to be partially printed.

The sad aspect concerning your editorial integrity and its professionalism is that you didn’t even sent me a typical notice of the reception of the letter, even though I had informed you that I have been keeping my own website for 15 years, writing articles both in English and Greek.

I will therefore print once again a section of the letter I sent you in August 2020, which provides me with the opportunity for my readers not only to assess what I have already commented on , but to also evaluate your integrity as an important progressive magazine in the West.

Part of the letter goes as follows:

August 2, 2020

Dear Editors,

I rarely write letters to newspapers, magazines or T.V. networks, but I did exactly that a long time ago, during the illegal American war campaign in Iraq in 2003, where more than half-a-million Iraqi citizens died and many thousands of Iraqi and American soldiers.