Screaming Whispers

Mr. Charles Edington is a former chemical lab technician, stock broker, business teacher, real estate broker, business consultant, and former womanizer—how redeemed. He was born to a migrating black family of thirteen children and raised in the Baptist church tradition, now devoting much of his time to writing and studying the polarization and disreputable treatment of the wage slaves by our sadly broken political leadership. The income disparity forces a polarization of wealth, such that six hundred Americans have more wealth than the combined holdings of two million other citizens. College student debt, revolving wars in the US role as the world’s policeman, voter apathy, and finally a growing desperate attitude by the citizenry that nobody cares about what we want or think. The Wall Street Barons, a dictatorial military industrial complex and the exploding diminishment of basic human rights by those chosen to protect and serve further drives people to ask that if America is so rich and powerful throughout the world, why is it that so many of us are catching hell daily just trying to make it? As noted in the profile of black America, too many citizens rely on food stamps, section eight housing subsidies, and welfare or SSI monthly government support—while still looking up to see the bottom of a poverty-level income though working and trying to uphold the American dream.