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Protests, Boycotts Are Useless Say Some U.S. Citizens
In the very recent past there have been protests and demonstrations for better jobs, housing, education, equal justice and civil rights. There have been rallies against the Iraq war and the mismanagement of the nation’s economy. There are some among us who believe these mass expressions are useless and serve no good purpose. What ideas do You have to affect change in our society? What do you suggest as an alternative? Shall we wait until we have no rights left to demand our leaders be accountable?
To those of you who agree with the headline of this article we have a few suggestions:
Let your young underage children go to work. That’s right your 7, 8, 9 year-old sons and daughters should be working in some sweatshop or in a field picking some kind of fruits or vegetables from sun up to dusk 7 days a week, with no time off for school.
If you agree with the statement, “All that marchin’ around is a waste of time” we’d like you to please go to work for slave wages, which is no wage at all and even fewer benefits.
Are you among those who say, “I don’t have time to support folks demonstrating and protesting or boycotting anything,” we would ask you to please tell the human resources person at your place of employment you’d like to give up your job and the benefits that come with it. Tell your boss you’ll be content to work for no money. We’d also suggest you return your college degree and certainly move to the back of the bus and make sure you take a seat there everyday. Please move out of your comfortable middle class or upper middle class neighborhood and move back to Appalachia, the Ozarks or the ghetto…Black or Jewish.
For every person who says they do not agree with exercising our freedom to congregate to demonstrate, express our dissatisfaction with the status quo we say you would not have any of the benefits you take for granted today if someone in the past had not had the gumption to organize a rally to protest against injustice, or the courage to demonstrate for what is right.
If you can not participate just support in spirit the efforts of others who do the marching and demonstrating so you and your progeny may enjoy the benefits derived from their heroic actions.
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