BOBBEE BEE: BACK TO SCHOOL WITH A NEW ATTITUDE

Dear Parents ,Teachers, Therapists, Psychologists, Counselors, School Administrators, and Pastors

Start this school year off with a smile!

Seminole Productions is privileged to present "BACK TO SCHOOL With A New Attitude" "The Back To School With a New Attitude," which is a literacy campaign attempting to improve the attitude of our children in the classroom as well as aiding them in identifying some of the problems they may face in school and at home.

The first book in our "BACK TO SCHOOL WITH A NEW ATTITUDE" literary campaign is "IN THE MIND OF BOBEE BEE "the Hater" which is about an obnoxious, opinionated 10 year old child who copes with his anger at home and at school.

The following topics are creatively yet humorously covered in this fantastic children's book: anger management, behavior modification, character development, academic success, and self-esteem.

This beautifully illustrated children's book serves as a tool which will allow parents, counselors, and teachers to help children do self analysis and self-correction. In addition, this book will also allow children to read positive literature which will increase their intellectual development.

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Please help us in our quest to "Leave No Child Behind."

This book is currently being used by Life Skills Counseling, Inc. (Raleigh, NC), a center that provides multidisciplinary programs aimed at addressing the emotional and behavioral challenges of children and teenagers.

BOBBEE BEE:KING-KONG AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON ME:More monkey business in sports and politics

NORTH CAROLINA (BASN)—by Eric D.Graham

The more things change; the more they stay the same.

Because, it seems as if the water has been contaminated with the devil’s racist elixir, especially after the re-election of President Obama and the “Bush-bucket of chicken comment ” by Fox’s sports Terry Bradshaw.(Read my previous article entitled Bradshaw, Bush and a bucket on BASN to learn more).

Yes, the sins of America’s racist past continue to haunt us and spit in the face of history.

And despite all of this post-racial bull*&#* being promoted by the media, racism is alive and kicking!!!

Besides, in some people’s perspective, one Black president should have eliminated over 420 years of white supremacy.

This, of course, is all an illusion.

Because, America’s ugliness is still being splatter on the wall of history like the famous Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting “The Problem We All Live With,” which was inspired by Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old little Black girl, who integrated New Orleans public school in November of 1960.

And it possibly will continue in the future, especially with the help of the Internet via YouTube, Face book and twitter.

Plus, I am not holding anybody’s hand singing Kumbaya or drinking any kool-aid.

Therefore, let me re-freshen your memory a little, especially for the young people, who are too young or too dumb to see the subliminal racism placed in front of their faces.

Monkey See; Monkey Do

Remember, when editor Anna Wintour of Vogue and photographer Annie Leibovitz’s left their racist fingerprints all over their magazine in April 2008 when they decided to place then- Cleveland Cavaliers Lebron James a.k.a KING JAMES, who was the first Black man in the magazine’s 116 year history to appear on the cover, clutching super model Gisele Bundchen in his hands as if he was some type of King-Kong gorilla figure.

Ironically, the April 2008 Vogue cover was almost an identical replica of illustrator H.R Hopp’s notorious 1917 Destroy This Mad Brute—Enlist poster of a drooling ape clutching a topless-white-woman.

But I don’t think we as Black people should have been shocked by this subliminal attempt to portray us as some type of sub-human, or ape-like figure, especially Black athletes.

Why? Because, it’s “monkey see, monkey do,” whether it’s print media or television.

For instance, have we already forgotten about the incident that surrounded two-time gold medalist Gabby Douglas during the 2012 Olympics, which occurred on NBC?

Here is the scenario, right after NBC sports commentator Bob Costas finished praising Gabby for her nearly flawless gymnastic routine, NBC, as a television network, decided to run a commercial for a new television show called Animal Practice with a monkey dressed in a red, white and blue sweat suit while hanging on some Olympic gymnastic rings.

You gotta to be kidding me?

Was this an accident, a coincident, or simply a well-planned racist attempt to devalue us as Black people?

I’ll let you be the judge of that…..

More Monkey Business

Because, truthfully, this type of blatant in your face racism, especially coming from England, where the 2012 Olympic games were held, is almost the norm.

Just consider the racist history of how Black athletes are mocked, especially Black soccer players during soccer matches in England,Italy and Spain, when they are insulted by fans, who make monkey chants while they play.

Matter of fact, just last year, the Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos walked off the field when a banana was thrown toward him at a league match in Russia.

This is racism in its purest and rawest form.


Unfortunately, however, this evil practice and behavior of throwing bananas at Black athletes has even occurred during a NHL (National Hockey League)game as well.

For instance, a spectator threw a banana at Philadelphia Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds during an overtime shootout attempt during a the Flyers’ preseason game against the Detroit Red Wings in London, Ontario.

This, unfortunately, is not an isolated incident.



Why? Because former Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Kevin Weekes had a banana thrown at him during a 2002 playoff series with the Montreal Canadians in Montreal as well.

Yeah, the more things change; the more they stay the same.

Because, unbelievably, just this year, during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, it showed up again, when Patricia Carroll, a Black camerawoman who works for CNN had peanuts thrown at her by two Caucasian males, who shouted at her “this is what we feed animals.”

“ A lot of Black people are upset.” Carroll, a 34-year-old Alabama native, told Maynard Institute blogger Richard Prince.

“This should be a wake-up call to Black people. … People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we’ve gone further than we have…”

Carroll was absolutely correct.

DRUNK OFF OBAMA

Why? Because, a lot of Black people had become intoxicated with the election of President Obama, and drunk with the presence of seeing a Black Family in the White house.

And by doing so, they have let their guards down and started relaxing and celebrating too much.

It was if, they felt the election of Barack Obama sealed the deal.

But, unfortunately, the struggle still continues.

Therefore, they must never let our story be forgotten.

So, even though Obama has been re-elected, they must not be ashamed to tell their grandchildren about the horrors of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, the hellish lynch mobs, the Civil Rights movement, voter suppression, the water holes, the German shepherds, the segregated lunch counters and water foundations even in 2012.

Please understand, by no means I am inditing all white people.

For I understand, Obama’s re-election couldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for an army of young, white college students, who volunteered and dedicated their time and effort to his campaign. This was obvious during his historical victory in 2008 as well as at his acceptance speech in Chicago in 2012.

NATURE VS. NUTURE

But with so much disrespect and malice taking place all over the world, one has to ask themselves where does this type of hatred come from? And why does it still exist even today?

Some say it is simply their nature.

Other say it’s nurture.

While psychologist Dr.Cress Welsing, author of The Isis Papers and creator of the Cress-Welsing theory analyzing the nature of white supremacy, suggests it’s the “fear of genetic annihilation” which is causing all of this chaos amongst some Caucasians.

Fox New’s Bill O’Reily, surprisingly, confirmed Dr.Cress Welsing theory a night before President Barack Obama was re-elected, when he said, “The demographics are changing,…It’s not a traditional America anymore.The white establishment is now the minority…”

Obama’s defeat against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in fact, even had the head of the American Conservative Union and longtime GOP leader, Al Cardenas to say, ”Our party needs to realize that it’s too old and too white and too male and it needs to figure out how to catch up with the demographics of the country before it’s too late.

In other words, they are having a difficult time coming to grip with the fact that Black and Brown people are quickly becoming the majority in America and will soon begin to dominate all endeavors of public life, whether it’s sports, politics, education, business, religion, military, science and technology.

Some even have suggested that this is the main reason behind the Minnesota Timberwolves recent attempt to create an all-white NBA team. (To learn more about this topic read my previous article entitled I am Dreaming of White Christmas and an all-white team on BASN.)

I, personally, don’t believe that, even though the NBA is 78% Black.

But in some people’s eyes, it was just another small example of how the world is changing.

HARBORING HATE IN THEIR HEART

But whatever the cause or reason, we can’t deny that there is a certain darkness and hatred that seems to be surrounding the heart of America, who thought and prayed for Romney to be president.

Unfortunately, the same hatred and darkness, which the nation harbors in its heart, seems to be suffocating its spirits as the world becomes browner and browner by the hour.

Matter of fact, it can be heard in the social commentary coming from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck as they continue to throw gasoline on an open fire with their racist rhetoric on radio and on television.

It also can been seen in the immigration policies in Arizona, talks about building electrified walls and self-deportation, the privation of public education, mass incarceration, the criminalization of Black youth, gentrification of Black neighborhoods, the paranoid purchase of guns and ammunition and in the apocalyptic Armageddon sermons being preached in the the pulpits all across America.

Believe me, we should all be a little leery of all of these events as well as all of this New World Order talk coming from conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, especially with this new Abraham Lincoln movie coming out in December, which was produced by Steven Spielberg.

Why? Because, many people believe that America is more divided now then it has ever been, due to the election of President Obama, of course. Plus, many people feel that there is another civil war brewing and we know how the last one ended.

WHITE AMERICA IS DYING

Psychologically, with the thoughts of President Lincoln’s political legacy in the back of our mind, we have to be aware that when some Caucasians appear on television and at these Tea Party rallies screaming that “they want their country back”, they actually mean it, in the worst possible way.

With that said, consider Conservative political pundit and former President Nixon advisor Pat Buchanan‘s bold claim that Barack Obama’s reelection ‘killed White America on the G. Gordon Liddy Show.

“White America died last night. Obama’s reelection killed it. Our 200 plus year history as a Western nation is over. We’re a Socialist Latin American country now. Venezuela without the oil.”said Buchanan, who is the author of the controversy book The Death of the West.

“And don’t give me all this nonsense about Martin Luther King and civil rights and all that. Who do you think freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln. A white guy!”

“But we’re not led by Lincoln anymore, we’re led by an affirmative-action mulatto who can’t physically understand how great America once was.”

“I cried last night G. I cried for hours. It’s over for all of us. The great White nation will never survive another 4 years of Obama’s leadership”

PLANET OF THE APES

Yes, the anxiety level is extremely high amongst old conservative white men with the re-election of President Obama.

Matter of fact, they feel as if they have one foot in the grave and the other foot on a “banana peel.”

Plus, psychologically, they feel their version of the world, as Pat Buchanan suggested, is slipping away into the abyss as if it was a version of the 1968 American science fiction slash -horror movie called “The Planet of the Apes directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, which was based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle.

Why? Because, this movie can be used as a racial allegory.

In effect, it could give us an inside look into the mind of some Caucasians.

In 1999, Eric Greene, in fact, published a study of the initial five-film “Apes” series called Planet of the Apes an American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture, in which he said, ” The Apes films confronted some of the most controversial issues of the time, including Vietnam and the Black Power movement…..

Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised that the Planet of the Apes movie series was re-introduced to movie goers in 2001 and rebooted in 2011.

Ed Gonzalez, in fact, wrote this excellent review for the 2011 prequel,”Rise of the Planet of the Apes in Slant Magazine

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes’” only provocation is that it would appear to buy into the myth of a post-racial America. Rather than hold a mirror up to a country’s racial hostilities, it capitulates to Hollywood formula and political correctness; save for a tacky scene during which a scrawny white goon at an animal compound turns a fire hose on the uppity Caesar, it only has the best interests of PETA, not the NAACP, in mind.

After reading this review, let’s remember the true premise of the Planet of the Apes.

The story is about an all white astronaut crew, who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future, where apes have human-like intelligence and speech, while the humans are mutes and slaves.

This synopsis, in fact, explain a lot of this “monkey business” surrounding Black people and white paranoid surrounding the election of President Obama.

Because, according to a paper conducted co-author Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford associate professor of psychology who is Black, along with Pennsylvania State University psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff (the lead author and a former student of Eberhardt’s) entitled “Not Yet Human: Implicit Knowledge, Historical Dehumanization and Contemporary Consequences, Americans still subconsciously associate Blacks with apes.

“Despite widespread opposition to racism, bias remains with us,” Eberhardt said. “African Americans are still dehumanized; we’re still associated with apes in this country. That association can lead people to endorse the beating of black suspects by police officers, and I think it has lots of other consequences that we have yet to uncover.”

After learning about professor Eberhardt’s research, it’s quite interesting, especially with the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney being a member of the Mormon Church.

Because, up until 1978, the Church of Latter Day Saints believed that Black people were considered sub-human or cursed. (Read my previous article entitled in Jabari Parker: Being Black and Mormon on BASN)

OBAMA FACTOR

But despite all of this, the real source of this fear of the Planet of Apes, is Barack Hussein Obama, who has had to experience the same type of racist name-calling that Black athletes like Jackie Robinson had to endured when he integrated Major League in April 15, 1947.

Obama, in fact, was called Curious George, who is cartoon monkey by South Carolina political consultant, Sen. Diane Black on Twitter the day after the election in 2008.

Plus, he was portrayed as a gorilla by NY Post cartoonist Sean Delonas who depicted two policemen, one with smoking gun, standing over a dead chimpanzee with the words, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

Leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Farrakhan addressed this issue during the annual Saviour’s Day event on February 26 in Chicago, when he listed several disturbing e-mails and comments coming from government officials.

Here are just a few of them:

• South Carolina GOP activist Rusty DePass in June responded to a Facebook post about an escaped gorilla at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia by writing, “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”
• According to the Merced Sun-Star newspaper, Atwater, Calif. Councilman Gary Frago sent several racist e-mails, including one which compared Barack Obama to O.J. Simpson and another one jokingly suggesting that First Lady Michelle Obama should pose for National Geographic.
• Marilyn Davenport, member of the Orange County California Republican central committee’s Tea Party resigned after she forwarded an email in which Pres. Obama’s face was superimposed on a chimpanzee’s.
• Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, California sent an e-mail showing a watermelon patch growing on the White House lawn, and the caption, “No Easter egg hunt this year.”
• Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated (California) put out a newsletter with an image of “Obama Bucks” – food stamps with Obama’s head on a donkey surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon, Kool-aid, and ribs.

KING-KONG AIN’T GOT NUTHIN’ ON ME

After reading all of these ugly and racially insensitive e-mails, it is obvious racism is still alive. And while America experiences another case of whiplash with the re-election of President Obama, we should prepare ourselves for more racism, whether we are athletes, teachers, students, doctors, or simply the average everyday Joe or Jane in the street.

Why? Because, there is a “Fear of the Planet of Apes” sleeping in the minds of several disgruntled Americans.

And sadly, the more xenophobic and paranoid they become, the more they prove how inhumane they really are and how human we are….

Why? Because, KING-KONG AIN’T GOT NUTHIN ON ME!!!!

BOBBEE BEE: KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

"Birds fly, fish swim, and children play." -Garry Landreth

1. Children are not miniature adults, and the therapist does not respond to them as if they are.
2. Children are people. They are capable of experiencing deep emotional pain and joy.
3. Children are unique and worthy of respect. The therapist prizes the uniqueness of each child and respects the person the child is.
4. Children are resilient. Children possess a tremendous capacity to overcome obstacles and circumstances in their lives,
5.Children have an inherent tendency toward growth and maturity. They posses an inner intuitive wisdom.



6.Children are capable of positive self-direction. They are capable of dealing with their world in creative ways.
7. Children 's natural language is play and this is the medium of self-expression with which they are most comfortable.
8. Children have a right to remain silent. The therapist respects a child's decision not to talk.
9. Children will take the therapeutic experience to where they need to be. The therapist does not attempt to determine when or how a child should play.
10. Children's growth cannot be speeded up. The therapist recognizes this and is patient with the child's developmental process.

BOBBEE BEE: MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK!!

Thank you so much.

Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you.

It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.

Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come. I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time.

By the way, we have to fix that. Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone, whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard and you made a difference.

  I just spoke with Gov. Romney and I congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it’s only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future. From George to Lenore to their son Mitt, the Romney family has chosen to give back to America through public service and that is the legacy that we honor and applaud tonight. In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward.

I want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years, America’s happy warrior, the best vice president anybody could ever hope for, Joe Biden.

And I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago. Let me say this publicly: Michelle, I have never loved you more. I have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in love with you, too, as our nation’s first lady. Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes you’re growing up to become two strong, smart beautiful young women, just like your mom.

And I’m so proud of you guys.

But I will say that for now one dog’s probably enough.

To the best campaign team and volunteers in the history of politics. The best. The best ever. Some of you were new this time around, and some of you have been at my side since the very beginning. But all of you are family.

No matter what you do or where you go from here, you will carry the memory of the history we made together and you will have the lifelong appreciation of a grateful president. Thank you for believing all the way, through every hill, through every valley.

You lifted me up the whole way and I will always be grateful for everything that you’ve done and all the incredible work that you put in.

I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly. And that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics that tell us that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or the domain of special interests.

But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym, or saw folks working late in a campaign office in some tiny county far away from home, you’ll discover something else.
You’ll hear the determination in the voice of a young field organizer who’s working his way through college and wants to make sure every child has that same opportunity. You’ll hear the pride in the voice of a volunteer who’s going door to door because her brother was finally hired when the local auto plant added another shift.

You’ll hear the deep patriotism in the voice of a military spouse who’s working the phones late at night to make sure that no one who fights for this country ever has to fight for a job or a roof over their head when they come home.

That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter. It’s not small, it’s big.
It’s important.

Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions.

Each of us has deeply held beliefs.

And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy.

That won’t change after tonight, and it shouldn’t.

These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty.

We can never forget that as we speak people in distant nations are risking their lives right now just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter, the chance to cast their ballots like we did today.

But despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America’s future. We want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers. A country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation, with all the good jobs and new businesses that follow.

We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. We want to pass on a country that’s safe and respected and admired around the world, a nation that is defended by the strongest military on earth and the best troops this — this world has ever known. But also a country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war, to shape a peace that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human being.

We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America, open to the dreams of an immigrant’s daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag. To the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the nearest street corner. To the furniture worker’s child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president — that’s the future we hope for. That’s the vision we share.

That’s where we need to go — forward.

That’s where we need to go. Now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely, about how to get there. As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It’s not always a straight line. It’s not always a smooth path. By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock or solve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward. But that common bond is where we must begin.

Our economy is recovering. A decade of war is ending. A long campaign is now over. And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead. Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together. Reducing our deficit. Reforming our tax code.

Fixing our immigration system. Freeing ourselves from foreign oil. We’ve got more work to do. But that doesn’t mean your work is done. The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. America’s never been about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government. That’s the principle we were founded on.

This country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world coming to our shores. What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.

The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for come with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism. That’s what makes America great.


I am hopeful tonight because I’ve seen the spirit at work in America. I’ve seen it in the family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors, and in the workers who would rather cut back their hours than see a friend lose a job. I’ve seen it in the soldiers who reenlist after losing a limb and in those SEALs who charged up the stairs into darkness and danger because they knew there was a buddy behind them watching their back.
I’ve seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from every party and level of government have swept aside their differences to help a community rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm. And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.

I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father’s story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own. And I know that every American wants her future to be just as bright. That’s who we are. That’s the country I’m so proud to lead as your president.

And tonight, despite all the hardship we’ve been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I’ve never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. America, I believe we can build on the progress we’ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.

I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.
And together with your help and God’s grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth. Thank you, America. God bless you. God bless these United States