Happy Father's Day

We are prisoners of our fathers.

Much of the upcoming election commentary has focused on demographics, never questioning influence.

My generation, now in it's mid-forties, will suddenly find itself with a role to play in the nations politics.

The generation after us knows no racial or religious boundaries, the generation before us lived by them. It is this stark contrast which molded our thinking.
My generation believed themselves the first above the 'dirty' subject of race, but unwittingly we are caught in it's idle gaze. Our Father's, our teachers, the people who influenced us the most, raised us in households where we laughed at the previous generations foliables, yet found them omni-present in our lives.

Can we break the invisible chord which binds us to our fathers' reasoning, it will be interesting to see in November, or are we prisoners of the age old idiom...

"There's nothing wrong with that kind of thing, each to his own, I just wouldn't do it myself...."