This Past Saturday I attended a rose scholars event regarding how we do activism. It was a nice discussion with other members of the Rose community discussing what activism was, and if we felt we participated in activism.  We started off by discussing what social issue was of most importance to us. After that, we discussed what lead to effective activism. It was neat to hear people’s perspectives on whether or not there should be a “person in charge” for activism.

Several examples were MLK, Malcolm X, and Anonymous. It was a good discussion about how by being able to rally behind a figure head, it makes the ideas you are fighting for ma bit more tangible.  Moreover, people discussed how having someone from the inside be the figurehead resulting in the message being a lot more clear. Someone shared a counter example saying that in the fight for illegal immigrants to get education, a legal resident is needed to be the figurehead or else it is very difficult to get anything done. Overall, I thought the discussion was neat to hear people’s different perspectives on activism.