Poignant Images

As I listened to the evening news about the happenings outside the United States, the fear and confusion of a suburban shopping centre has been displayed in the aftermath of an atrocity of a second suicide bomber in Dimona in Israel that had been involved in the attack. The police shot the suicide bomber before the latter could detonate his device. To me this is strongly convincing of what it means to live under the shadow of suicide bombers... living in fear. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Middle East situation, these events can drive CHANGE. If people will only stop fighting for whatever reason, maybe this earth will be a better place to live in in spite of the threats of global warming, natural disasters, and economic oblivion. I just want a peaceful world for the coming generations, but I feel that it is nowhere near in sight. The Arab world and Israel hate each other. In the U. S., it is still the color of skin that is a factor that is very much alive in politics. We need CHANGE to happen to stop all this madness. And speaking of change, let’s switch the scenario from the international front to the recent results of the primaries back home where Sen. Obama’s winning percentage is way up there. To me, this is a reminder of the civil rights movement in America today. The struggle of the African Americans for full participation in society was a CHANGE that has been the direct legacy of Frederick Douglass and many other abolitionists before him and fighters for human rights after him like Martin Luther King, Jr.

Well, some people don’t like to see the results of the primaries this way because of Mr. Obama's origins, ethnicity, and relations to African-American slavery in this country. I was just thinking that things are still happening here in the U. S., which can definitely drive CHANGE someday. The next president will make a difference, which will be another historic event. Maybe Washington really needs CHANGE. We’ll see... because I believe that we cannot afford to live on a plateau. Thinking about the abolitionists’ movement and its impact to the equality of races, stopping racism is needed, and sometimes CHANGE is good... even in the new millenium where whites shouldn't hate the blacks, and vice versa, or the latinos against the blacks.