This isn't encouraging on its own, but it's at least a *little* bit encouraging to see people finally acknowledging this problem. We can't fix systemic problems by following the broken rules of the broken system, and that's all the leaders on the left seem willing to do.
Yes. Awareness of a problem, conviction that it must be fixed, and public naming of the problem and our conviction are the first steps of repair, but also they are only the first steps. Eventually if we are to align with reparation we have to accept the cost of the repair and do the work.
yes, for sure; however, I am a novelist with a flair for irony and a conviction that better things are possible, rather than a trained organizer or political strategist immersed in procedure, so this is a book more about changing the national spirit than tactics.
When I was younger I always saw the gulf between What The World Is and What I Want The World To Be as a fissure which could be bridged and crossed with hard work. Over the last decade, however, I have begun to see it as an endless chasm. Signpost says YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE.
