Editor,
In 1964, I was privileged to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak at the Methodist Student Movement Conference on racial and social justice.
Editor,
In 1964, I was privileged to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak at the Methodist Student Movement Conference on racial and social justice.
He began by summarizing the story of Rip Van Winkle. Winkle had slept through the American Revolution. He said: “It is a tragedy when people sleep through a revolution.” Today, in one sense, we are going through another revolution. Our young people are reminding us that a re-evolution is taking place about the accessibility and use of guns. Our Nation’s founders recognized “in order to form a more perfect Union” we would at times need to adopt new amendments. Perhaps it is time to once again use the process. Our young people today are bearing signs that say: “We are not bullet proof.” They are unsure “if they will be able to come home from school today.”
As members of a “Conscious Elders Group” we wonder how we can help. Please join us in opening cross generational conversations. Let us ask our youth: “What are your concerns today?” and “what are your ideas for helping amend the situation?”
Both our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution invite us to, when our representatives no longer serve the people, replace them through our votes. Please join me and others in conversations and in exercising our responsibility by voting in all elections. Like Dr. King said: “It is a tragedy to sleep through a revolution.”
Warren Dale
Redwood City
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