Rosa Parks
Hi everyone! Last time I posted about Elizabeth I and how she overcame the problems in her country without a man's help.
This time I will write about another woman that I think is a very brave one.
When I read
what Rosa Parks did in the bus while returning home, I said to myself, wow,
that’s brave! Would I have been able to do the same if I had been in that
situation? Maybe I would have cowed by the possible consequences that my
actions had brought. Or maybe I had acted in a way that does not benefit the
fight I was defending; rather, it had been a setback and a bad example using
violence.
Many people
would say that if you have something to defend, you must do it at all costs.
And this is related with what I wrote in the Reaction Paper. I think it may be
true, if you think something is right, defend it, but always appropriately. What
do I mean by this? We don’t need to be aggressive to defend our point of view. If
we use uncivilized methods like violence to do it, means that we have no valid
arguments to support what we want or, despite them, we don’t have the ability
to expose them properly.
Furthermore,
we have to take into account that most of the time, peace is overshadowed with
just one violent act.
Rosa Parks
is a good example of how to do things in a way that shows what you think, but
without trampling on the rights of others and not harm anyone or anything in
between. She didn’t use the force or inappropriate words to defend her position
This also
shows me that if I want to present my opinion about something and know that it
will not please the majority, must be aware that there will be who come and
criticize me, and think that I am a strange.
However,
there is a weapon that we can use to solve problems. As King said: “Nonviolence
is the most powerful weapon.”
What do you
think? Don’t you believe that using violent methods is detrimental rather than
beneficial? Do you think
that instead of speeding things, violence delay things even more?
~~Comment below~~
This video tell us about the story of the bus where she refused to stand up and go to the bus's back.
I hope you like it!
I've always thought why the black people have been discriminated by the white people, and how it wasn't the other way around. It was this way because the europeans were white? It would have been different if the europeans would have been black? It's so unfair how the black had to fight against the segretation for so long, and, at least for me, is really admirable how (at least the majority) they did it in non-violent ways. And still being unfair the way that the black people have to still fighting, and they still doing it without violence. But, anyway, I think that maybe they wouldn't be segregated at all now if they would have done it with violence, maybe they wouldn't be fighting now. So like Maquiavelo said "the ends justifies the means", I mean if it's something really worth it to fight for.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe the violence isn't a really bad thing.
~~Thanks for comment my entry Javiera. I like that you share your point of view with me. I think I understand what you want to say. But I keep my thesis.
ReplyDeleteAs I see things, black people did a good job fighting for their rights in a nonviolence way. And even thus they suffered consequences. So, just imagine how it would have been if they would have used violence. Maybe they did not have obtained anything. Maybe white people would have hated even more the black people. Or perhaps, who did it, would hurt those who did not.
That's my point of view.~~
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