All the best and brightest young people are rebels and always have been.
nearly all of then end up top of the heap
and reactionary.
It is just the way it is.
Oh I think so too. I applaud those who are rebellious against what is truly and honestly oppressive. Where we part ways, however, is where there exists oppression in a graduation speech that must stay on script. People may find it odd, but he didn't play by the rules of the game when it came to the event's and school's policy.
My views are this young man had a rant in front of a lot of people. His mic was turned off. Was he beaten and dragged off stage? Was he actually "threatened" with seizure of anti-establishment material at his house? Were his parents detained?
NO. His mic was turned off. It's the result of unprofessionalism and immaturity.
It would be like a formal dinner he'd be expected to attend, and he decided as Guest of Honor to spit on the table in front of everybody, tell people he was going to spit on the table as a sign of protest, be warned that if he did spit on the table he'd be excused from the dinner service, and after spitting on the table in front of everybody, he was excused from the dinner service....and it made the news as a mark of oppression and censorship, and that his actions are considered worthy of applause because of a rebellion against an oppressive and arbitrary authority.
The people who do make the history books as rebellious are people like Malcolm X, Angela Davis, the suffragettes, people that not only refused to succumb to order, but led a movement against government and cultural oppression.
Y'all think staying on script is oppressive? All right. I think the next time somebody tells me they're heading out to see a film or a stage play for entertainment, rest, relaxation, I'll sneak into the booth and make sure over the loudspeaker I'll play on a loop crowd chants yelling "Black Power!" again and again, and see who applauds the move then.
And then I'll do something similar again. And again. And...well y'all get the point, right?