A Generation Destroyed
The Liberian Civil war did not only kill 250,000 people. It also destroyed an entire generation of young Liberians.
The war destroyed a generation that should have been leaders and decision makers of today.
Today, these young people have voting age. But that is not all, THEY ARE NOT ONLY IN THE MAJORITY they are the majority!
There are more uninformed and uneducated young people in Liberia ever than before. And this multitude of unprepared young people are not just sitting, they too are demanding their rightful place in the body politics of their country. They want to occupy public positions they are not prepared for.
And they are very angry because they have no skills;
And they have no skills because they did not go to school;
And they did not go to school because they had no opportunities;
And they had no opportunities because of the war that destroyed their future.
Worse of all, they are not equip enough to understand that it was a handful of Liberians that got them into all this mess in the first place.
Until they understand that those who destroyed their future should not be elected to public positions, they have no hope of redemption.
They have the democratic power to decide who they want to be their leaders because they are the majority. And that is the scariest part of this whole story.
This story is all about the “Uninformed and Uneducated Majority”.