PARENTING STYLES

Tina Fey, a skilled comedic actress catapulted into fame by her Sarah Palin sketches on the old comedy show, Saturday Night Life, has children of her own. Tina Fey, and Sarah Palin have a similar beauty, and physical style, and most important they are good mothers, but the similarities end at some point when you go down into the real nitty gritty of their views of the world they live in, and the relationships they have with their wombs, and water.

Sarah Palin exposed her family on her reality TV show, and talks about her family during interviews. I watched some of Sarah Palin's reality show. Impressive. Millions loath her, and were unable to discern the wisdom of her parenting style or appreciate the beauty of her love for her children, the land, and culture of the indigenous people of Alaska. I didn't know, until the show aired, her husband's people are Inuit, and indigenous to the land. She grounds her children, which used to be fundamental to childrearing. Like most American children they have cell phones, but unlike most parents she balances the air element (cell phones) with Earth energy (on hands tasks like cleaning fish, tanning hides). This a powerful, and empowering teaching lost to many parents. Her children are outside in the forest, white water rafting, flying in small aircraft, talking to the elders, and exploring their backyard in simple ways lost to her detractors.

Sarah Palin consciously makes connections between her family, and the land in a variety of ways. Sarah Palin is, also, part of a cultural paradigm that despises the Earth, our Mother, and renders insignificant the notion of wholeness, and connection, or relationship with the Earth, our Mother. This contradiction stands with her on each podium. Pouring from each rant of her party is the gross contradiction that purposely undermines mothers across the continent as they bully people into being ashamed of being liberal, and able to negotiate, and compromise.

Tina Fey is drawn into this tribute for her ability to draw all of these contradictions into comedic skits.

I couldn't, myself, connect with Barack Obama until I heard his wife speak three months before the election. I could clearly see who he was by who she was, and what she embodied that was connected to divinity, and African spirituality, and the unity between love, and intellectual curiosity that is held in distain by supporters of the agenda that is undermining the United States of America. The founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman (a Black woman) said today on the talk show THE TALK: "The premise of the American dream is that our children will do better than their parents. That is sliding backwards (in this country)!” Sarah Palin says those words, and expresses those sentiments but she, and the party and people she represents, as Tea Party folks, good Christians, and white poor, and middle class, and rich Americans, live within the contradictions of their rhetoric by the practice of non-belief in the equality of peoples other than white America!

It is a sad commentary, but it glares out from under the laws the Republican, and Tea Party has created that sustain the belief in eating our grandchildren to feed our children. Ms. Edelman said, "... we have leaders who have Robin Hood in reverse theory, and they'd rather give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires."

Sarah Palin connects her children with their father's people in the culture of the Inuit people, and her politics, and stance encourages the strange paradigm that votes against one's best interests. Tina Fey serves the consciousness of her generation by raising the fundamental questions that serve the future of our children the Christian conservative movement shuns, and condemns. – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories