A New Liberia: The baby steps to get there.

Henry Johnson LR
3 min readAug 1, 2019

First and foremost, congratulations to some of the winners (Abe Darius Dillon and the rest)! I also want to take this time to appreciate all of those who competed in the race.

Brabee Abe Darius Dillon, the only thing I disagreed with you on is your “dual citizenship” position. But again, it’s your right to have those views. And it’s the Liberia that I want to see, patriots standing up for their convictions. They say, “Abe Darius Dillon didn’t graduate college.” Well, our papers will not change the lives of our people unless we applied it.

One of America’s greatest Presidents, Abe Lincoln, which first name that you share did not go to college. College is a good thing. It teaches us how to be better human beings, think about issues critically, how to make our arguments without keeping grudges in our hearts. But if you don’t apply it, it nothings. I want to tell you, my brother, that without a college “degree,” Lincoln changed the great United States. The emancipation proclamation, which breeds “Liberia,” land of the freed.

Brabee, as you fight for the Liberian people, remember that it is every concerned citizen right to hold you accountable. I know that…

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Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.