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It's a good point. But I prefer to view it as "Dream as in verb." Followed by the work to realize it. Yes, it's exhausting to see progress clawed forward inch
by ethbr0 5y ago
It's a good point.
But I prefer to view it as "Dream as in verb." Followed by the work to realize it.
Yes, it's exhausting to see progress clawed forward inch by inch, or simply held steady against backwards pressure, but that's what real change looks like. Those who do that work, day in and day out, for years, are heroes.
Every movement needs flashy wins for inspiration and celebration. Because that's how media and the human brain work.
But it's important to be clear that those wins are the results of work, yet not the work itself. And that before and after the celebration, the work continues. Eight years cannot be expected to unmake five hundred.
- mostertoaster 5y agoSee but heres the thing, can 160 unmake 300? You could also argue the work you’re talking about started after the civil war, accelerated during the civil rights era, and culminated in 2008. If you told a recently freed slave that in 150 years a black man would be elected president and that includes nearly half of the white population voting for him. They would’ve looked at that day as a wonderful dream. Yet you are telling them, that day will come but you will not be satisfied. And rightly so they wouldn’t be satisfied. So think even now you’re working towards a dream. Progress was done in 08, but took a step back in 2016. Isn’t it depressing that this dream you’re striving with all your might won’t satisfy even if achieved? Or has the dream been realized. And simply put there is now no excuse. That underneath every time we’re a victim, we are also guilty ourselves.