I wish you all a good Martin Luther King Day.
But I cannot stop myself from fearing that we let the mission die with the man. Years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his message of unity and non-violence, our society still allows violence.
We still let our government wage needless, expensive wars overseas. Domestically, violence and racism still plague the country. In the United States, nearly 100,000 women get raped each year, for example. The current murder rate in Philadelphia for black men rivals the murder rate in war-torn Iraq.
I believe we have the ability to stop violence and victimization, but we do not take the proper steps to stop it. As individuals, we use our time and money selfishly when we could use it to make a safer and more peaceful society. Politically, we let resources get put towards waging needless wars and enforcing victimless crimes when we could instead put those resources towards preventing violence and protecting people from victimization.
I hope we soon make the drastic changes to our society that King dreamed.
What do you think?
Monday, March 3rd 2008 at 9:13 am
I like then end of paul’s comment & i hope so too.
Tuesday, January 22nd 2008 at 9:36 am
well for me violence will never ceased, it’s human nature. it existed way before humans gain their intelligence to what it is now. the only thing that we can do is minimize it and maybe someday people will realize that a human life is not equals to property or anything else in this world