Revolution! A New Day is Coming!
The recent events in Egypt have inspired me to write again. Only because I fell in love with the place and I’m thrilled at what’s occurring.
Egypt is having a revolution! so are we!
So if you don’t know, Egypt is in the middle of a Revolution of the People. ( I call it that ,it’s actually being called an “uprising”). The Egyptian people are demanding the resignation of their leader, Mubarak. He has maintained his office for over 3 decades and the Egyptians are feeling less than satisfied with him to say the least.
While in Egypt, my roommate Karis from Paris and I have many conversations and interactions with the people and grew to love Egypt. We were always treated like family wherever we went. People referred to me as “sister” and “queen”, and went above and beyond to accommodate us. A local family even took us in as her temporary children and cooked for us on several occasions. The best thing I can relate it to, it the equivalent to having loving rural cousins who you stay with in the summer.
Anyway, as wonderful as the people were, they were equally poor. There was no minimum wage for workers, the streets were over crowded , children begged for money in tiny voices that just broke your heart and there was an obvious lack of care from the government. The public transportation systems were filthy, old, run down…etc the building were crumbling, some didn’t have roofs, the cars were old, just extreme poverty. In fact all the rich people live in a suburb called “California”. Weird…..
Now the people of Egypt are demanding that Mubarak be removed from office and that someone replaces him who is better equipped to fix the issues within their country. They are in the middle of a revolution! How beautiful and wonderful that people come out of oppression to demand rights! We must always support the revolutions of the people! I’m confident that Egypt’s revolution will trigger many more to come in the surrounding areas.
There is power in numbers and often the majority are the ones who are oppressed. If people work together change can occur, the world can change! We must get behind the people in every revolution for support.
Maybe this is what the real 2012 is, perhaps there isn’t gonna be an end of the world, or any polar caps switching, perhaps there will be many revolutions for the “have-nots” and the only thing that will shift will be power. … So in support of Egypt, save this pic I made of their flag and post it wherever you want! And lets be apart of the revolution!
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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