Hurtful Trouble or Positive Trouble Honoring the passing of Congressman John Lewis, he once said "good trouble, necessary trouble" can redeem the "soul of America.” In this claim, he is creating an argument which is calling the American people to action. This quote from Lewis is effective and should be openly agreed upon. In just one simple sentence, he alludes to the history of America and calls for action using the internal American spirit. Making his claim correct with reason. In the first place, Congressman Lewis alludes to the history of America and how causing trouble is natural to Americans. The allusion is based on how he says America's soul can be redeemed, leading to the conclusion that the American people have a built soul, in which one of the main ideas of it is causing trouble. …show more content…
Further into this question of general protesting, how do we depict exactly what is exactly a good protest or even riot? In a biased free world, the simplest answer is everyone has a right to cause trouble, but how you do these acts is the divide. Reflecting back onto the Capitol attack, the attackers did not face a definite opposition that was causing injustice. They had no prior actions to try and create fairness and resulted in violence. This is not the definition of good trouble and cannot be justified in the word of redeeming the soul of America. This is also shown in more groups with more of a prominent negative motivation. For example, the KKK, has shown decades of, in their words, causing trouble. But in fact do more than cause trouble, and cause death to torment those that do not fit in their agenda, black Americans. In their point of view they might be living to the words of Congressman Lewis and causing trouble in order to redeem the soul of America but instead are damaging the point of view. This is the reason Congressman says that he is being specific to the people who are actually leading to good in their