The March for Our Lives has just ended in Washington DC. It was not the only one in the entire Union. Perhaps this is the end of a before and the start of an afterwards.
\nFew times in history, perhaps since Vietnam, the expressions \u201cmy generation\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d have sent such a clear message and different to all those who wanted to hear them, especially the politicians and the members of Congress who for practically a decade have set aside the subject of weapons.
\nFrom these young people\u2019s perspective, those firearms are only good to kill. The freedom of others to carry them \u2013 especially those for military use \u2013 end there where they, the children and youngsters, have historically put the dead.
\nColumbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland are barely three chapters of a horror story that usually ends with prayers and condolences until, once again, bullets fall on them like Sisyphus\u2019 heavy rocks. And they refuse to swell the statistics in a culture where there are more weapons than persons and in which violence is like bitter bread eaten day in and day out.
\nCamila Cabello also participated in the march.
\nThe speakers \u2013 Anglos, Afro-Americans, Latinos\/Hispanics\u2026 – expressed from their diversity the spirit of the moment, for starters with two important implications.
\nThe first, a clear VOTE THEM OUT, this is, the determination of making themselves felt in the ballot boxes, especially during next November\u2019s midterm elections. And they must be taken very seriously: today these millennials surpass the baby boomers – that is to say, those born after the last world war and a bit later – as a voting force.
\nThe second, another cry: NO MORE!, accompanied by the determination to accept no more the power or the lobbying capacity of the very powerful National Rifle Association. \u201cI am fire,\u201d Miguel de Cervantes once wrote, \u201cand sword put faraway.\u201d
\nOne of the key questions asked on as well as out of the tribune was \u201cIs this the United States where we want to live?\u201d
\nEloquent in her silences, like that of the six minutes and 20 seconds, the time the shooter took to do away with more than a dozen lives in a Florida school.
\nAmong them, Enma Gonz\u00e1lez, that young Cuban American who has emerged as one of the natural leaders of this movement, because she is. As simple as clear in her ability to denote and communicate. Eloquent in her silences, like that of the six minutes and 20 seconds, the time the shooter took to do away with more than a dozen lives in a Florida school.
\nAnd genuinely and deeply moving, with a flag that looks upon her proudly from the right sleeve of her jacket.
\nThe arrow has been shot.
\nNow it\u2019s a question of seeing what happens this time with the target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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