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LakeVermilion

LakeVermilion's Journal
LakeVermilion's Journal
April 28, 2015

What would have to happen to make you march in the streets of your town?

I don't have an idea about what would make me angry enough to get out in the public.

I think that's my point. Most people would choose to continue their lives, rather than go to extraordinary lengths to challenge government. I think that's true in Baltimore, Ferguson, and any other American city. To get people, most of whom don't vote, out in the street takes an egregious act that causes a person to leave their comfort zone.

I won't criticize those in the streets. It probably took a lot to motivate them. I don't know what would make me take action, but there must be some breaking point at which I would march, too. But I think that before we criticize the marchers, we examine our lives and consider what would make us take civil action.

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Name: T Begich
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Hometown: Tower, Minnesota
Home country: United States
Current location: Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
Member since: Wed Oct 2, 2013, 07:11 AM
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