Saturday, January 22, 2011

Still Time

"In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" 
This quote was from the movie "The Great Debaters" It spoke to me and said that evil will always triuph when good men do nothing.
It's funny and yet so true. I recommend that no one ever be just a bystandard. I've been there and stuck up for alot of people and things I believe in, but when I missed just that one opportunity, I thought about it every day for a long time. And even to this day, I still do. I'm sorry.
The only thing can think to do now is to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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