Outcry is not enough
Opinion by John Hopkins
Floyd County Democratic Pary chair
Americans are right to protest when police abuse their power and take someone’s life in the process.
We are right to protest when obvious crimes are ignored. We are right to protest when our nation’s wealth is employed by law to diminish the weak and the voiceless.
We are right to protest when protest itself is treated as though it were unlawful.
Protest may wake the sleeping conscience, may rally the sympathetic bystander – and yet, protest taken to extreme will never carry the day. When the justified shout of “This is wrong” is lost in the smoke and rubble borne of reckless anger, society will rouse itself to save what property it can.