August 27, 2006
Is This Some Kind of Joke?
I've been through some really weird experiences, but this one certainly takes the cake. It's like that didn't-quite-make-it Hollywood movie: I Know What You Did Last J-Term.
But, really, I don't see this as a Scarlet badge... I think it's more of a "bleu, blanc, et rouge" badge. For as much as I joke with my friends about moving to France, I could not leave America. Even if I think it's being run by a bunch of fascists, I would sooner go to jail for my radical ideologies than flee like a coward from the land I love. If it's radical to want all people to be equally valued and compensated for their positive contributions to society and to work for peace and abandon greed, then radical is the most moral thing one can do.
In the words of Langston Hughes:
"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak."
-Let America Be America Again
Posted by EvanReynolds at August 27, 2006 4:23 PM
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