Reply #17: Struggle is good... [View All]

[Stand and Fight]

It is good so long as the cause is a worthy and realistic one. Struggling without purpose and without all possible passion and logic united as one is a futile exercise in the inane and the insane. This is radically different from the Civil Rights Movement -- in this case the media is not an ally, but very much entrenched in the enemy camp. To believe that this struggle is a matter of "years" and patience is to set ourselves up for failure. Plain and simple. You don't have to agree with me, but action makes things happen. Struggle without action is nothing more than the buzz of a fly to be swatted, and that is precisely what we shall allow to happen to ourselves if we take on lackadaisical attitudes. Struggle -- yes. But struggle with all the passion and logic that you can summon forth in yourself. Struggle with all your being to conjure up that same passion and logic in others. We're fighting a war here people -- a war of ideology, but a war no less. Furthermore, it is a cold Civil War in our country that is very much under way. How long shall it take before people are swayed from their slumber into righteous action against those who would seek to do away with the tenets of our Constitution and our very way of life? How long till we all throw off the shackles of the victimized mind, rise up, and defiantly throw our oppressors down the mountainside? I tell you: we cannot accept this as a simple struggle, unless we recognize it as the worst of struggles -- a war of ideology, freedom from oppression, tyranny, and bigotry that movements like the Civil Rights STRUGGLED to do away with... No, we have not yet begun to fight. Deliberation is the work of many; however, to succeed in this, action must also be the work of the sum total of those who will not go quietly and be "the great silent majority." The time to stand and fight is now.