Day 4: Calculated Decisions

As I hear experience the events surrounding familiar individuals such as Rosa Parks, and many others who are new to me, I am impressed with their resolve to stand for what is right, persist for what is right, respectfully promote what is right and be willing to endure consequences of that decision coming from hate-filled people and a broken system. Individuals knew their jobs were on the line, their physical safety was on the line, and their very lives were on the line.  And yet they chose to make that decision.  I am humbled by their boldness, tenacity, resolve and endurance in the fight for freedom, dignity and respect knowingly risking their lives for what they believed in. Rosa Parks was arrested, Jimmy Lee Jackson died protecting his family, teachers allowed students to leave class to protest, protesters returned to the bridge for a second time, not knowing what they would be facing and many gave their lives for something that would bring about change.

Linda Poston

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