Activism and Culture

Tomorrow when we march in or go to Fourth of July parades, when we down cheese sticks and elephant ears and we light sparklers and ooh and ahh at fireworks, we’re celebrating our freedom to do these things.

Of course, this sounds cliche, and in a manner of speaking it is, but because we can often get so wrapped up in our own ideas and causes, I think we need to remember that no matter how immoral, unfair, or hardline the other guy’s policy is, we have a duty to respect and honor his right to believe it.

So tomorrow, when you see the other side in the parade, when a noisy guy who is your polar opposite is screaming at the top of his lings, and when your opponent is campaigning on the same side of the parade, remember it’s freedom that lets this happen.

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