April 12: A Day of Celebration or Sorrow

Damn bro, its one thing to celebrate what MAY have been a social revolution (others would say it s short-lived though) but its another thing to seem like you're celebrating or ignoring the tragic deaths of many other Liberians.

Dah mah small .02 cents

Traveller wrote:

Damn bro, its one thing to celebrate what MAY have been a social revolution (others would say it s short-lived though) but its another thing to seem like you're celebrating or ignoring the tragic deaths of many other Liberians.

Dah mah small .02 cents

I celebrate with mixed feeling but deeply in my heart i know that the social revolution was needed considering our nation past....

True, it was need. Unfortunately, it got hijacked by youth, inexperience, and hatred.

Traveller wrote:

Damn bro, its one thing to celebrate what MAY have been a social revolution (others would say it s short-lived though) but its another thing to seem like you're celebrating or ignoring the tragic deaths of many other Liberians.

Dah mah small .02 cents

my sentiments

i thnk consdering what we all have been through over the years, we need to be wary of how we glorfy certain "revolutions" and "reforms" over the years...
when one considers the lives lost in the process, one wonders if it was all necessary

candygirl wrote:

................when one considers the lives lost in the process, one wonders if it was all necessary

Change was and still is necessary but the wisdom of using violence directed by youth, inexperience, and hatred is always going to be problematic. In short, something needed to be done but in our limited capacity as humans given to anger, greed, lust, jealousy, and passion, the "social revolution" was bound to fail.

One of the ills in our country was the fact that the ability to eradicate illiteracy was slow and well encourage by certain people. Liberia was only Monrovia and the process of decentralization was slow. black aparthied existed in our country in another formssss. We should not allow that to happen againnn

We used to say in Liberia, that April was the wicked month. 1980 was certainly a wicked time. When I remember that day and the events surrounding it, celebration does not come to mind. The lost of life and the ensuing mayhem was inevitable with the underlying tensions and grievances that had been brewing among the people for long. But the slaughter was not necessary nor commendable. Much personal grievance and vendetta was exacted on people at that time in the name of revolution, as people payed their debt.

It should be viewed as a time of reflection, a time to remember where we went wrong and where we should never tread again.

Seaside Sovereignty

Fourteen were tried,
with mercy sparing
only the country boy
the sentence to die.

Rampant corruption, high treason,
and gross violations of human rights,
were the insidious infractions
the tribunal gave as judicial reason.

Thirteen times on the African coast
the shore was forced
to bare the burden
of the execution posts.

The Atlantic sprayed tears
on the sacrificial sons
while the revelry of the crowd
lifted insurgent cheers.

Thirteen leaders lost
some better some worse.
Thirteen blood lines cut
heedless of the cost.

Supposedly sovereignty would be restored
when the last point blank bullet
pierced the last trembling skull
on that beautiful, blood soaked African shore.

Nica wrote:

We used to say in Liberia, that April was the wicked month. 1980 was certainly a wicked time. When I remember that day and the events surrounding it, celebration does not come to mind. The lost of life and the ensuing mayhem was inevitable with the underlying tensions and grievances that had been brewing among the people for long. But the slaughter was not necessary nor commendable. Much personal grievance and vendetta was exacted on people at that time in the name of revolution, as people payed their debt.

It should be viewed as a time of reflection, a time to remember where we went wrong and where we should never tread again.

Seaside Sovereignty

Fourteen were tried,
with mercy sparing
only the country boy
the sentence to die.

Rampant corruption, high treason,
and gross violations of human rights,
were the insidious infractions
the tribunal gave as judicial reason.

Thirteen times on the African coast
the shore was forced
to bare the burden
of the execution posts.

The Atlantic sprayed tears
on the sacrificial sons
while the revelry of the crowd
lifted insurgent cheers.

Thirteen leaders lost
some better some worse.
Thirteen blood lines cut
heedless of the cost.

Supposedly sovereignty would be restored
when the last point blank bullet
pierced the last trembling skull
on that beautiful, blood soaked African shore.

i like the peom Nica. really nice

I think I would approach this day with mixed feelings. I would celebrate because this day signaled the beginning of enlightenment for most Liberians and in the process we loss some of our compatriots. However, like they say, "there is no gain without pain."

speaking of pain without gain... has there been any revolution that was bloodless??
just wondering and lazy to research

There has been, I think it was in Georgia, the Soviet Union, where they move the prime minister just by having peaceful demonstrations.

really???!!!!! i will definately look that up.

was that recently cuz i saw soemthing on the news recently about demostrations in Georgia

I guess it depends on what singbe measn by "revolution."