"When We Rise" Parts VI and VII (TV Episode 2017) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2017)

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Supreme Focus Meathead
DKosty12316 May 2017
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As the Supreme Court argues, it is only proper that central casting gets the MeatHead out of the closet to try and defend the defense of marriage act. Of course, the Meathead only helps the cause of equal rights for all people.

Now that we are getting past this issue, the end of the Obama era ushers in the transgender issues for their rights too. We are now living in the greatest individual rights in the history of the United States. It is a different balance than ever before.

On the other side of the scale, now the IRS has to know when you file your taxes more personal information than ever before. Privacy Rights have pretty much been trampled with the Affordable Care Act. Every time you step into a retail business, you photo image is taken so your rights to your image are no longer yours. DNA research has pretty much given us a sense of a loss of our own privacy as well.

There is a difference between privacy and choice. While we have choice and pay the price for it with the Opoid Crisis and rising Suicide Rates, at least we can look at the current chaos with an Independent view. Meanwhile, shopping malls are now putting images of every customer on their closed circuit systems, but can restrict any person on their "private" property from using their camera to take a picture. No wonder internet shopping is booming. The privacy cost of stepping into a mall for anything other than walking exercise has become too great.

When We Rise is the beginning of the next battle. Will humans want to get back the rights of privacy?
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8/10
Write Their Names
DKosty12316 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
As the series gets into the Obama years, the breakthrough on legal same sex marriage happens. Prior to this there were many same sex relationships that were long term ones but not legal ones. As the break through happens, 2 of the women who have been together since episode 1 tie the knot.

The times in this 2009-2012 period have changed. The major wave of rights for gay people have finally become more accepted. The brightest thing in the script is the daughter who accepts her two moms rooting them on and supporting their finally making it legal.

As the history is being made, we finally erase the total disaster started in the Clinton years by "don't ask, don't tell," and then the defense of marriage act. There is still the resistance by religions, but in the US the Separation of Church and State become more firmly established by supporting the rights of same sex couples.

The Supreme Court tips the scale at last by deciding people do have rights. What is not mentioned and is coming into realization is that along with these rights there are responsibilities too.
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