That is the thing about it. The minute our side makes any progress, politicians and individuals who want it back the other way start chipping away at any progress we made and they take it as far back to the extreme as they can take it.
Half the time, whether we realize it or not, we help it along to go backwards too, by not fighting hard enough except when it is right in front of our faces. We rest more than they do in between doing things and it hurts us. The rest of the time things go back to politics as usual. While we think we made a little progress or we think things are ok, things are not ok.
Behind the scenes, they never stop.
If we want to keep the world changed, we have to be continually on it, like they are. We have to never stop, like they do. We have to watch them closer and see what they are doing and fight them.
How many states right now have outlawed abortion using Covid-19 as an excuse?
That should give you an idea of how they work behind the scenes constantly to undo anything we did for rights of any kind. They will use any and EVERY, which is the most important thing to remember, excuse to undo whatever took us ages to do. They never miss any opportunity to swoop in and change things to what they want. And they do it with ease. We have to bust our asses and they just swoop in and do whatever they want with ease. That's how it is.
When it comes to race, white people who are against racism, against it at least in theory, have fallen down on the job, time and again. Many of us are against it in theory, but we don't always stay on it as a priority. We don't always listen. We don't always pay enough attention. So, things happen to black people all the time that we don't know about, until a video is posted somewhere.
For every video that is posted, they have been through that time and time again with no video posted and no attention paid to what they are going through with police and our entire governmental system.
That is what led us to this point.
We only bother to try to think of solutions for a few days after we saw the latest video. We don't follow through. Our attention spans move onto other things. We don't listen enough to the black community when they mention what it is like for them without some video right on our plate in front of us to face. It is true.
Ask them and listen.
Remember the listen part. You can confirm it that way.
So, Dr. King DID change things, for a time, but over time, all of his work has been eroded, not just by the right wingers, but by our own laziness at paying attention and listening to the black community. We we have not remained vigilant and we rest too much in between major events, while the Republicans never miss an opportunity to pervert the system to their liking.
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