Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
Of course this was in response to Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz's desperate call for help yesterday.
So instead of getting these people the help they so desperately need, Trump decides to become defensive and attack this overwhelmed mayor personally.
If you are disturbed by that video, you should probably know that the exact same destruction of the native culture happened right here in Alaska:
Several generations of Native people — many of whom are still alive today — would become targets of a tragic, frequently successful campaign of cultural elimination. Demanding that Natives abandon the cultures and languages of their grandfathers and grandmothers, Natives were given a clear message that one way of looking at the world was superior to the other. That the survivors did as they were told — abandoning their feasts and ceremonials, their dances and even their languages — is testament not to the correctness of the Western message but to the survivors' states of mind. Having lost multitudes of spiritual and political leaders, artisans, historians, and elders, those who were left were orphans — spiritually as well as physically — destined to live in a world of emotional and material poverty.
In the schoolhouses and boarding schools, in the churches and in the orphanages, Native children would learn how to become good Christians and good Americans.
What they really learned was to be ashamed of their language, they were often beaten for using it, and to become reliant on the whites that invaded their lands and stole from them their way of life, self reliance, and sense of pride.
The federal government also restricted when they could fish and hunt, making their traditional subsistence lifestyle all but impossible.
When you see a homeless native on the streets of Anchorage, you have to realize that that is not a choice they made for themselves. That was what they were reduced to after their culture was all but destroyed, and alcohol and drugs were the only things that seemed to ease their pain.
There has been a great effort in the last few decades by Alaska, and its native people, to put things right.
But the reality is that the damage done by the interference of outsiders, first the Russians and then Americans, has caused deep and potentially irreparable damage to the Alaska native culture.
In that way Canada and Alaska have much in common.
A young girl's life gets turned upside-down in this tragic second a day video. Could this ever happen in the UK? This is what war does to children.
What should disturb almost as much as these images is the realization that much of that kind of destruction, and the fear it inspires, is due to weapons deployed by US servicemen around the world.
As Pogo would say, "I have met the enemy, and he is us."
