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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Three steps forward, two steps backwards. The cyclic nature is like a Fabbrocini cycle.

fun4us2b · M
That's something! That was a long time ago - and a lot has changed...you can't expect one man to change everything - he did help set in motion quite a lot of civil rights initiatives which still exist...the pendulum does swing though...
@fun4us2b True. But now one man seems ready to misrepresent what happened back then and why things had to change, and he seems determined to reverse those gains. And plenty of our countrymen seem willing to assist him. 😞
EBSVC · 41-45, T
At every chance our forebears had they chose the worse option

We failed reconstruction, we failed the new deal, we failed civil rights, and now we’ve failed at even voting

There seems to be a constant thread here
sciguy18 · M
How cool your dad actually knew MLK
Again?

It never really ceased to begin with.
@bijouxbroussard For me it was never enough to just be "allowed" (and sometimes I haven't been) though I'm grateful to those who fought so I could be .. sometimes. I'm probably not the right person to try to look at this circumstance with positivity. I've been on the receiving end of this far too often in life, and it's something that affects me still on a daily basis. I'm too biased. I can't give these people the benefit of the doubt because it never quit, and I never expected it to.

We're all just seeing what was always still there.

Sorry, again I'm probably just too negative in this one area to deal with this fairly. I don't want fair anymore. I just want true change (but I doubt it would ever be that way in this country.)
@Magicianzini You must be a young person, because you’ve had the privilege of being able to decide what was enough, while those of my generation had to get the door open to see any of it. I have these kinds of conversations with my niece.

But people who see no hope stop fighting, and if that’s where we are and why so many didn’t vote in 2024 then we are really and truly screwed.
@bijouxbroussard I believe in fighting.. but I don't think we can do it by voting, not anymore.

By any means necessary ..

This is the only way it will ever be achieved.

 
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