Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

Today, the United States stands as the strongest country in the world and from the outside, appears to be one of the best to live in. But, like all other societies on earth, we too are corrupt in many ways beyond solution. In the quote above by Martin Luther King Junior, a question comes to mind: Is direct action, like the riots in Los Angeles, an effective way to resolve or at least begin to resolve massive problems within our society? While reading Twilight this question was answered from multiple perspectives, quite a few in which brought up compelling points about the worthlessness and importance of direct action.

Looking back on the riots today, have things really changed? Have we, as society taken a serious look at the matter of police brutality and made the essential adjustments our justice system is in dire need of? No, I don't believe we have. And from the accounts of the thousands of

"And there was a sense of community here, and you felt the possibility, you believed that it actually could change, and of course here we are a year later, (seven second pause) didn't change." (Paula Weinstein, "A Jungian Collective Unconscious", Twilight.) At the time immediately following the riots, the City of Los Angeles, and our entire nation felt no there was no other choice but to transform the police force. The treatment law enforcement was allowed to bring down on people could not go on. But like stated earlier, it was just a tease. Everyone believed, because these riots were so huge and because nothing like this had happened since the civil rights movement, civility in the U.S. had to change. But, there's still police brutality and still no change. So were the riots effective? Did those three days of destroying the heart of L.A. and its people solve anything? Perhaps we're all more aware of the way law enforcement can treat civilians, at the most.

Morality is something family pass from generation to generation, and to adjust the lessons a parent teaches to his/her children simply would not work for everyone alive today. To completely eliminate the mistreatment of one another based on stereotypes will not happen while you and I are still alive. Improving the situation, however, is essential. And to do this, we must have a clean slate, in other words, the purity of a kindergartener's mind.

So how do we, as the strongest country in the world, fight off the moral epidemic of racism? Direc

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