Letter to the Editors
April 24, 2018
In the last issue of The Bull’s Eye, Amelie Lee wrote an impassioned article on the “collective voice for reform” in America. She discussed the tide of young people raising their voices on lax gun laws in America. On this 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, I wish to urge for us students to follow in his steps. He dreamed for a world where his four children would “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” When Gallup asked Americans in 1963 if the Civil Rights Movement had hurt or helped the cause for black rights, 85 percent of Americans said it hurt black social advancement. They who remained quiet lacked the ability to imagine a better world. Those who did imagine a better world, like Dr. King, rose up, changing the moral course of our country forever.
Today, the tides of change have again risen, ready to be directed by the collective force of an awakening sect of the population. In this moment, it is of the paramount importance that us students imagine a better world for ourselves and our posterity. For which we must, as Dr. King and the civil rights activists of his time did, speak up, march, and most important of all, vote.
Hamzah Daud
Junior
