Monday, March 29, 2010
Inquiry # 5
In "The Clan of One-Breasted Women", the narrator talked about how nuclear bomb tests conducted around her home town caused cancer for many people. She discussed how it was part of her family's faith to stay quiet and obedient, even if their thoughts were the correct thing to do. She talks about how her and nine other women went against that eventually and protested against the bombings. Years later, the bombings stopped, as told in the beginning of the story. This form of protesting also helped during the civil rights movement. Results were not seen immediately in either of these cases, but they eventually worked years later. So my question is, are extraordinary forms of protest the way to get your point across when nobody will listen?
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Unfortunately, I think they are. In his speech “A More Perfect Union,” President Barack Obama recognizes the need for unity and action:
“What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggles, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience, and always at great risk – to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time” (98).
Also, sometimes it is the unity and action of successive generations that are needed to amend the injustices and problems of older generations, just as Williams was left to protest against the bombings that she believed caused the cancer of several women in her family.
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