Dear Editor,
What are you doing to keep the dream alive? Here’s one way you can do it, by finishing school, you will double what you learned in high school, I did.
You must focus, come to class and be on time, and you won’t be disappointed!
School is refining you and should be making you informed and helping you be the best you can be in the field of your choice.
I picked sociology here at ETSU, and loved it. I majored in it. I learned a lot in the field of sociology from Dr. Scott Beck and Dr. Hester, as well most of the sociology department instructors Dr. McCallister, Dr. Konocmic, Dr. Blaustein, and grew as an individual who gathered information that made me a better, brighter person.
These professors were brilliant. Dr. Beck’s “Power, Wealth and Poverty” class will open your eyes up to the inequality gap that is growing in the United States between the rich and the middle class students, who are being left behind.
Dr. Hester, who teaches many sociology courses, showed and taught me enough that I can now make a difference. Medical sociology taught by Dr. Hester, taught us a lot and so did the rest of my sociology courses, that forever changed the way I feel as an American about the injustice and the inequality, and it has instilled in me what sociology is all about, change!
That’s what happens when we speak up and speak out against social injustice, against poverty and inequality that’s sociology at its best folks, and keeping the dream alive by fighting for change is what sociology is all about!
Dr. Emile Durkhiem, famous sociologist, once said the key to change is for people to speak up and speak out against social madness and not be afraid.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to speak up and speak out against social injustice! Martin believes as I believe, that the living God gives us the strength to fight the good fight, and for those needing help, to remember the dream, that life is a fight between wrong and right.
Forty million American’s living in poverty, 48 million go without health insurance in the richest country in the world, what are you doing about what you are seeing in your country and in your land?
What are you doing for America, in keeping the dream alive? These men who believe in the living God were true patriots.
– Tommy Birchfield, voter, vet USAF, master’s program

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