1950: China invades Tibet and takes over their existing government.

2008: The media exposes the dirty details of the violence against Tibetans by the Chinese government.

1994: Genocide takes in Rwanda.

2007: According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, over 150,000 people had been forced out of the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the violence of rebel forces.

Why is it that we allow terrible events to occur without protest and only react when even worse happens years later?

Lately, many people are arguing and protesting over human rights abuses in China. But violence against the Tibetans has been an issue for years now.

It seems now and days that anyone can say they are liberal and will fight for a cause, but why were they not fighting the cause when the violence began.

It smacks of an increasing trend; to be liberal.

Every so often, something becomes the main “cause of the year.”

But once the protests subside, organizers plan for the next rally on a different issue, and people began to forget about the cause for which they’d once fought.

Why do we care one day and not the next?

Many women face genital mutilation in some parts of Africa and the Middle East, because of this, women can bleed to death and if they survive face many health defects such as; severe pain, hemorrhaging, wound infection, shock, urine retention, and many more.

Women and young girls are raped, boys as young as 10 sent into the army and, families torn apart as a result of violence in Africa. Yet, you don’t see people lining the streets of San Francisco to protest, because this isn’t the “cause of the year.”

Until people realize that protesting is not a trend and these issues need continuous support; they will never be resolved.

We can’t fight a problem, if we’re not willing to “go the distance.”