June 28, 2020: Rocketeers or rioters * Letters to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter
to the Editor,
Rocketeers
or rioters
After
a storm, some people look out their window, raise their gaze up and see the
beautifully colored rainbow magnificently spanning across the sky; while other
people look out their window, hang their head down and see the mud, muck and
mire that is savagely strewn across the landscape.
Both scenes are the reality
of the aftermath of a violent storm.
There is the reality of the rainbow and
the reality of the ruins.
Some people only focus on the rainbow and are
oblivious to the ruins, while others only spotlight the ruins and are unaware
of the rainbow.
The storm created both the rainbow and the ruins.
Those who see
both of them have the hope that the rainbow brings while diligently working to
clean up the mess that the storm created.
There
were two news stories: one was heavily covered while the other was hardly
covered at all.
The riots received the most coverage, while the rocket successfully
launched into space in more than ten years was barely mentioned.
The rioters
looked down, saw the injustice and had a fatalistic mindset that struck out in
anger and rage with arson, looting and violence; not having learned the lessons
of great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi that only
peaceful protests produce positive change because violence breeds more violence
and their righteous cause is lost to the unrighteous acts of the rioters.
The
rocketeers had a futuristic vision that saw the hope for humanity in space
exploration.
They set their sights on learning and preparing for a hope-filled
journey in a space craft that would take them to new adventures and add to the
further possibilities of what might be beyond this world.
Some
people chose to be rioters and allies of rioters and others chose to be
rocketeers and allies of rocketeers.
We
must all choose who we will be and with whom we will ally ourselves with; those
who seek to tear down or those who seek to build up.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas