Yeah, there's nothing quite like equating silence with victimhood to give me the warm fuzzies, let me tell you.
So, for all the battered, raped, sexually-trafficked and genitally-mutilated women in the world, let's be silent.
For all the children who go to bed hungry, let's be silent.
For all prisoners of conscience, let's be silent.
For all refugees displaced by armed conflict, let's be silent.
For all victims of torture, let's be silent.
For all the people in the United States who have to decide between paying for health care vs. paying for food, rent, or utilities, let's be silent.
For all of our dead, maimed and traumatized soldiers in Iraq, let's be silent.
For all the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, let's be silent.
For all the Iraqi and Afghani civilians murdered by our "collateral damage," let's be silent.
For all the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered people who must live in silence or face ostracism (or worse), let's be silent.
Silent my lily-white ass. Since I titled this post with a quote from Audre Lorde, I'll end it with one from her as well.
"Silence has never brought us anything of worth."
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1 comment:
Hear! Hear! I had not heard of this day, but I agree with you 100%! When I visited the Holocaust Museum with Holli in 8th grade the theme that they stressed over and over to the children is that it is important to follow your heart and to SPEAK OUT when you know and feel something is wrong. We need to speak out when something is wrong, had the police and school authorities listened to an English Professor there may not had been a need for this day. Silence is not the way to remember these victims or any other for that matter.
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