Doing the right thing….
Written by Bob Stewart
Values change over time; what used to be considered right, at least by governments is by the 2020s and beyond wrong, one example of this is slavery.
What change took place which eventually saw the abolition of slavery?
People who saw a wrong and decided to do something about it.
But….
Doing the right thing did not happen overnight.
It took years and years of campaigning, arguing, and debating before changes were made.
People such as Dr. David Livingstone and William Wilberforce campaigned strongly against what they saw as a wrong.
There are other wrongs which have been righted during the last 100 years or so.
Aparteid is one of them!
Campaigner against aparteid, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life in a South African prison.
The struggle to change the system in South Africa was continued by others while Mandela was incarcerated.
Aparteid was abolished in South Africa during the early 1990s.
South Africa was not the only country which treated certain ethinic groups as second class citizens.
The United States was one of those; in fact, slaves in the 1800s were those of African descent, but you do not have to go that far back in history to find a form of aparteid in the United States.In the early 1960s, a lady named Rosa Parkes refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, Rosa who was of African descent believed it to be wrong for blacks to be treated in this manner. This created major news headlines at the time, and brought to the world’s attention an injustice which needed to be put right.
A WRONG WHICH NEEDS TO BE PUT RIGHT
The United States is the only country in the world which sends minors to prison for life; in many of these cases, these juveniles were led astray by an over 18 year old. The question really needs to be answered; “Who’s should take the balance of responsibility for a crime committed by a minor when there are adults (over 18s) involved?
That is not the only question, I have. The other is, “What purpose will it serve to keep people locked up for life?”
Wouldn’t it be better, to train these people for a productive life outside of prison maybe as counsellors or whatever niche they can carve for themselves on the outside world.
Send a message to the American government about this wrong which needs to be put right. Sign my petition below;