Monday, January 16, 2017

should i stay or should i go

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as our 45th president this week. i have so many thoughts about it but none that prompt description at the moment. my prevailing thought now is about the Women's March the day after the inauguration. The march in D.C. is going to be enormous - probably bigger than the inauguration celebration. there's a march here, in Beaumont, and i'm struggling. i want to go, and i don't want to go. i know scott won't go. i don't know who else is going. it's an incredibly adolescent concern - who's going to be there? - but i'm concerned anyway. i read somewhere recently that, if one wonders if they'd have participated in the civil rights movement in the 60s, they only need to look at their participation in the civil rights movement of today. am i a coward? should i go? how much does this mean to me? am i taking the easy way out if i don't help stand up for others? i am all talk? will i regret it if i don't go? i need to think.

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