I despair for Mrs C. People who suffered incredibly from the terrible stain that mars our shared history. People who view the legitimate progress made as some sort of vicious trick they must be on guard against, and treat the next generation of thinkers like you as hopelessly naive and some kind of sellout to the oppressor.
I despair for Mrs C. People who suffered incredibly from the terrible stain that mars our shared history. People who view the legitimate progress made as some sort of vicious trick they must be on guard against, and treat the next generation of thinkers like you as hopelessly naive and some kind of sellout to the oppressor.
The wound may never heal. I think that has to be accepted as a cost to the way generations were treated. Yet where does that lead us? All too often to racialized battlefields where the sneers of hate are the only forms of currency.
I don’t want to live in a world that refuses to see the goodness in another heart because of the outside layer that wraps it.
Keep going Steve - people of good will believe in you and your message.
"People who view the legitimate progress made as some sort of vicious trick they must be on guard against, and treat the next generation of thinkers like you as hopelessly naive and some kind of sellout to the oppressor."
You really have a beautiful way of putting things Jen! Yes, I think this sums it up so well. Especially the feeling that progress is some kind of trick. That's why progress is so often generational. It's hard for people, especially people who suffered, to trust that change is real and update their model of the world.
I despair for Mrs C. People who suffered incredibly from the terrible stain that mars our shared history. People who view the legitimate progress made as some sort of vicious trick they must be on guard against, and treat the next generation of thinkers like you as hopelessly naive and some kind of sellout to the oppressor.
The wound may never heal. I think that has to be accepted as a cost to the way generations were treated. Yet where does that lead us? All too often to racialized battlefields where the sneers of hate are the only forms of currency.
I don’t want to live in a world that refuses to see the goodness in another heart because of the outside layer that wraps it.
Keep going Steve - people of good will believe in you and your message.
"People who view the legitimate progress made as some sort of vicious trick they must be on guard against, and treat the next generation of thinkers like you as hopelessly naive and some kind of sellout to the oppressor."
You really have a beautiful way of putting things Jen! Yes, I think this sums it up so well. Especially the feeling that progress is some kind of trick. That's why progress is so often generational. It's hard for people, especially people who suffered, to trust that change is real and update their model of the world.