Contrasts

The buildings in the Downtown Indianapolis area 

are a mixture of starkly sleek granite and glass

with the restored fillips of older, more ornate buildings.

Like many cities in the U.S. Indy has suffered through

years of neglect and abandonment, as her people

fled the downtown area for the promise of the 

cement block offices on the outskirts.

Thankfully, that attitude has enjoyed a remarkable shift

as people returned to the city with intents to rebuild,

restore and refurbish many of the beautiful

structures that remain.

Sadly, these houses lie within two miles of the

office buildings shown in the top photo. They speak to a struggle

endured by many of the people who walk every day in

the shadows of the downtown. In the aftermath of 

the mortgage and bank fraud debacles, the people who've lost 

their homes and jobs are the ones who suffer,

while those in the boardrooms write checks,

buy votes and influence legislation that destroys 

the foundation of the nation.

At a time when we need to adapt our educational 

system to the new technology, make good healthcare

available to everyone, feed our children and keep

roofs over their heads, those systems are falling apart

under a systematic cacophony of political posturing

designed to destroy them without replacing 

them with something viable, something better.

Every person in every one of those modest homes

needs to be certain they have a picture ID, are registered to vote,

and shows up at the polls to take America back from

the corporations who've stolen it.