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If there’s a “collective will” then why isn’t the population forcing its collective will on those power structures?
by AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
If there’s a “collective will” then why isn’t the population forcing its collective will on those power structures?
- greenie_beans 6mo agoas if the civil rights movement didn't have very significant events take place in mississippi https://bookshop.org/p/books/local-people-the-struggle-for-civil-rights-in-mississippi-professor-emeritus-john-dittmer/8c29e1fdde5a8cd5?ean=9780252065071&next=t https://bookshop.org/p/books/local-people-the-struggle-for-c...
- AndrewKemendo 6mo agoRight so what’s stopping people from doing it now?
- greenie_beans 6mo agoi guess you haven't been seeing the news of all the southerners fighting the redistricting efforts after they gutted the VRA
- AndrewKemendo 6mo agoYou mean Southerners like me in Virginia who are actually doing that “fighting” and it’s making absolutely no difference whatsoever is that who you’re talking about? I’m literally 10 toes down on the ground trying to do exactly the thing that everybody says should be happening which is democratizing community development and nobody gives a fucking fuck they will show up when you give them resources but never step up to lead after I’ve started so many goddamn community things but the second I pull back from them to let others lead nobody picks up the slack I’m excruciatingly done with over and over and over trying to help people take care of themselves
- greenie_beans 5mo agoyeah i'm sure you're doing this: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/20/mississippi-redistricting-voting-rights-rally/ https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/20/mississippi-redistri...