September 12th
September 12th
September 12th
I'd like to start this off with a question: Why do people have different claims or ideal, and separate practices? In America, we have a saying that all men are equal. It said so in the Declaration of Independence, right? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
And we proved that after the Civil War when slavery was abolished in the U.S., didn't we? That's why this is a democracy. People have the right to choose. Men and women of all races and ethnicities hold the right to vote if they are 18 or older, whether young or old. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, African Americans, Arabs, Mexicans, Canadians, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, they're all the same in God's eyes. There is no segregation.
Prejudging is considered wrong, but we all still do it. Let's face it; everyone is at least a little stereotypical or racist. We judge people based on their hair color, their clothes, their accent, their ethnicity, and we are essentially blinded by this.
How did this happen? Maybe it was always like this. Maybe we aren't as perfect as we think we are. We. Here in the U.S. there isn't supposed to be an us' or them.' That's why it's the United States of America.
If we are like this, then who are we to profess to the dictatorships of the world? Because, truly, don't our actions dictate our lives? And not just our actions, but our word indubitably have a strong impact. The famous Latin words, "Verba Volant Scripta Manet," or, "What is spoken flies, what is written never dies." Very true. And people tend to believe what they read. A scientifically proven fact.
In the past few months, I have come across many ill informed and completely biased books and articles, even conversations regarding Muslims-in a negative light. There have also been several relatively non-provoked disputes concerning this. Take the "Ground Zero Mosque," for example. The building was planned for a location a mere' two blocks away from the 9/11 ground zero site. How dare they?
If in the U.S. we have religious freedom, why can't a group of New York citizens build a religious center? And it's not just a religious house. A community center, for EVERYBODY, complete with a pool and a 9/11 memorial. A 9/11 memorial. A multi-purpose building constructed by Muslim U.S. citizens/residents. The distance of about two city blocks away from the actual site. Not next to it, not on top of it. Two blocks away.
Nothing wrong with that is there? A community center READ: not only for Muslims and a memorial to acknowledge those who have passed away or lost loved ones. Besides that, new research has suggested that there is a trail leading towards a preplanned explosion. So it isn't even positive who was really responsible. So why are there angry protestors still picketing after the aforementioned assemblage of New Yorkers were granted permission to continue construction?
So I ask, when will there be a real September 12th? When will we count our losses and move on, realizing that what's done is done, and nothing can alter that? Hopefully someday. But will that someday come when this generation is nothing more than a chapter in our future descendants' history books? The real question is, will we be remembered for our faults or our triumphs? Who knows that we'll even have centuries of such successors after us? With the way things are going nowadays, there's a chance that that won't even get a chance to happen. All great civilizations die.
They say that man is like a phoenix. A self-destructing one, reborn from the ashes every time he goes up in flames. Time has proved that. But in the end, don't we all just end up in the same place- dead in our graves? We all eventually wind up in the dirt, and in as time wears on, nearly every one of us will be forgotten except for a concerned few: the people that matter to us most, the ones who care.
After all, why should they be bothered? Everybody is so wrapped up in his/her own problems, no one sees anybody else anymore. That's the thing about us. Despite everything that has happened, we hardly ever learn. And when we do, we need to comprehend and APPLY. But some things never change, so they? Maybe someday.
Sara Teasdale- There Will Come Soft Rains
There will come soft rains and the
smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their
shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at
night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous
white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low
fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war,
not one
Will care at last when it done.
Not one would mind, neither bird
nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke
at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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