March For What? (The Modern Day Boycott)
Are Marches Effective?
These
past years have been quite disturbing with all of the police crimes that have
gone unpunished. Normally I would have named all of the victims, but there are
entirely too many incidences, where the police have gunned down unarmed people.
How do we receive justice in an unjust society? Well dating back to the civil
rights era, black people are known to March, boycott, and protest, using both
violent and non-violent methods in order to create change. So naturally we
resort to those similar methods in order to bring upon "change," but
are they truly effective?
The
answer to that question is, NO! Why you may ask? First, the time period has
changed; society problems are not as simple as they once were. In terms of
easily being divided by a simple sign oppose today's mental (mind) division.
Unarmed people are being gunned down in the streets like dogs by law
enforcement, so how is a march going to change the situation from reoccurring.
We fail to realize that the marches held in the past actually related to the
problem, for example; the historic bus boycott. The reason why the bus boycott
was so effective was not because a group of people stood in the street, but
because the effect on the revenue for the state. The boycotts in the past
affected the flow of money in certain divisions. Consistency is another reason
the marches were successful back then. The bus boycott lasted for 381 days
which equals a year and a month of refusing to use services that a mass amount
of people participated in. How effective can a march be if it doesn't last, and
once you go home you continue the exact routine that put us in this predicament?
"If
we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves," yes it may be
cliché for me to quote Diddy, but it's honest. Someone is murdered we cry, we
sing, and march for a week, and then go home to continue our lives until
another incident occurs. I'll ask you again, how do we receive justice in an
unjust society? Well for starters in order to win a game you first must learn
how to play the game. Throw out the recycled ways of trying change society with
marches and let’s actually put our heads together to change the world. This is
about crime, so why not peacefully retaliate?
I wonder what would happen if EVERYONE who's against this unjust
stopped paying tickets for 381 days.
I like the idea but i don't think that would work. Everyone would be in jail
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