Michael Collins: Revolutions Know No Color

Revolutions Know No Color
Written by Michael Collins Daily Journal (Opinion), World News Feb 3, 2011
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By Michael Collins




The legitimate demands of the people everywhere have no color, nor do their revolutions. These are not the revolutions arising from staged events by the White House, the National Endowment for Democracy, and other meddlers. We are witnessing what Mark Levine called human nationalism. The people of Tunisia, now Egypt, are, “taking control of their politics, economy and identity away from foreign interests and local elites alike in a manner that has not been seen in more than half a century.”

Somehow, we are supposed to believe that the English speaking peoples have a corner on democracy. The rest of the world is still learning. When the oppressed of a nation, particularly of the third world, stage an uprising, it is neatly packaged and color coded. That way it’s easier to follow. The Western leaders and press assume an avuncular pose and pass judgment on how the various colors pass along the path to self-determination — not too fast, not to rowdy, and certainly not to disruptive to first world markets, especially oil.

These assumptions need to be thrown overboard immediately.

When a people have had enough of mistreatment and government corruption, when they have struggled and starved long enough, when they see their children die shortly after birth and their elders pass well before their time, they’ve had enough. They can be white, brown, yellow or any combination of colors. They may be in an industrialized or developing nation or living in one with little development.

It is the universal right of all people to live in peace, freedom, and dignity.


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