The Beatles had something when they sang "Revolution"
By: Kellye J. Stimpson
Issue date: 2/8/10 Section: Opinion
As a politically correct and an ethnically evolving society, we have begun to be aware of the impropriety of words and actions that once upon a time no one even gave a second thought to when it came speaking out against injustice or even for justice.
Words and actions of our ancestors are what paved the path to what we see happening today. For every action there is an equal reaction, Sir Isaac Newton postulated some centuries ago.
With slavery came abolition, from the oppression of women came women's suffrage, and from the inequalities and injustices towards people of different skin color came the civil rights movement. Revolution comes and goes throughout time, and our country is not the exception to the rule. Our country's founders even knew that revolution was necessity stating in our Declaration of Independence "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
More recently, however I find the drive, which was once there to better our nation has stagnated greatly. The revolving doors of change have been blockaded by the power struggle for more money, fame, and political prosperity.
Where are the voices that once called us to action to hold the big corporations or politicians accountable, the hand that kept governments in check, and the heart that tried to save our children from starvation, exploitation, and war? Now all I have heard is silence and all I have felt is stagnation.
The road to change is driven by good intentions, but is paved by corruption. Yet, no hint of revolution has come. We have become scared, or perhaps apathetic to the need to address the problems of not only our nation but also the world.
We have focused our attention so fiercely on who or what to blame that we have lost the drive to act before it devastation strikes. Are we doomed to perpetuate continually our lack of action in the face of opposition until monumental tragedy strikes?
Our country was built by the actions of treason, should our country then be demolished by the actions of censor?
Words and actions of our ancestors are what paved the path to what we see happening today. For every action there is an equal reaction, Sir Isaac Newton postulated some centuries ago.
With slavery came abolition, from the oppression of women came women's suffrage, and from the inequalities and injustices towards people of different skin color came the civil rights movement. Revolution comes and goes throughout time, and our country is not the exception to the rule. Our country's founders even knew that revolution was necessity stating in our Declaration of Independence "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
More recently, however I find the drive, which was once there to better our nation has stagnated greatly. The revolving doors of change have been blockaded by the power struggle for more money, fame, and political prosperity.
Where are the voices that once called us to action to hold the big corporations or politicians accountable, the hand that kept governments in check, and the heart that tried to save our children from starvation, exploitation, and war? Now all I have heard is silence and all I have felt is stagnation.
The road to change is driven by good intentions, but is paved by corruption. Yet, no hint of revolution has come. We have become scared, or perhaps apathetic to the need to address the problems of not only our nation but also the world.
We have focused our attention so fiercely on who or what to blame that we have lost the drive to act before it devastation strikes. Are we doomed to perpetuate continually our lack of action in the face of opposition until monumental tragedy strikes?
Our country was built by the actions of treason, should our country then be demolished by the actions of censor?