Where Did You Go America?

"You say you want a revolution" -The Beatles

Anyone who has ever heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak will forever remember the way his booming voice resonated over crowds of hopefuls, people who had rights and stood up to the people who wanted to drown them out. We need another MLK, another revolutionary. We need someone that will stop the corporations from breaking us in spirit when we ask for what is right to be honored.

Look around you America. Look at what you've done by ignoring reality and not holding "The Man" accountable. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You need to put down the pharmaceuticals, the debit cards, and the remote and start thinking again. Once you start paying attention to the bullshit going on around you, you will be outraged, yet, will you do anything about it?

Whatever happened to the hippie radicals from the 60s? Didn't they raise children when they moved to the suburbs, or did they forget about what they fought so hard for? Where are the flower children of the coming of age baby boomers that stood up, sat down, and marched in protest of the atrocities that plagued our country's minds and hearts? Did they all fall asleep or are they so drugged up on Paxil, Prozac, and painkillers they have no idea what they've done by ignoring the powers that be? We don't need you if you don't have an opinion or a voice. We need an army of citizens to make the wrongs we elected, paid, and let take advantage of us, right.

There are a lot of reasons a person should stand up for what they believe in, the best reason being that it's the right thing to do. So I'm asking, where did you go America? Not the America that moved to the suburbs and let the cities go to waste. Not the America that moved to the Corporate American workplace and let bad lighting and tedious paper-pushing lull them into submission. Not the America that lets money and "keeping up with the Jones'" rule their life. We need the free thinkers, the inventors, the rational, the do-gooders. The revolutionaries of the yesteryear with dreams and ideas that will better the world. And we need them NOW.

We need to find ourselves some answers and ACT before it's too late. There can't be just one person left who has a voice, with a belief that THAT voice can make a difference, I can't be the only one. We need to find our inner child, our beliefs, the simple passions that define us, and we need to get them back! Over the last 20 years we have let technology drown out individuals and their voices. We've let email and instant messaging and bad music drown out the cadence of frustration and passion. No wonder we can't communicate, we've forgotten how one voice can change a nation.

We need a revolution because it's not alright right now. Someone shouldn't have to suffer and die in vain before the rest of America gets a wake up call.