Resigned, or not.

I feel this today… and I think I echo the feelings of a nation. Things are out of control all around me. We live in a nation here in America that is vocal about its values of human rights, yet we regularly execute human beings in complete violation of their human rights in retribution of some crime that they may or may not have committed. I acquiesce. Many of us do. What can we do facing the deluge of power stacked against us. BUT, I hate that I capitulate. I hate that I am resigned to the idea , “that is how it is. ” I blame it on the other principles that our country seems to hold in higher regard. The idea that property is more important than humanity.  Maybe I should not “blame” anything. Maybe I should take responsibility that I have allowed this to happen.

The fighter in me screams… no! I can not accept this injustice. The realist in me tells me, ” calm down man, it is the way it is. “

The human in me tells me that if I don’t stand up, If I am not heard, then I am as big a part of the problem as the next person.

So I will FIGHT. I am compelled to. There is no profit in it. There is no glory. There is only doing what I think is right, what I think is just, what I think is human. If I don’t, If we don’t stand up for the least of us, who will?