WHAT RADICALIZED ME?
I stopped accepting excuses for why:
Children are dying on cold cage floors.
Working people can barely survive.
Schoolkids are being massacred.
Hundreds of thousands go homeless.
There's unlimited money for war.
And unlimited tax cuts for billionaires...
I stopped accepting excuses for why:
Children are dying on cold cage floors.
Working people can barely survive.
Schoolkids are being massacred.
Hundreds of thousands go homeless.
There's unlimited money for war.
And unlimited tax cuts for billionaires...
WHAT RADICALIZED ME? (2)
I stopped accepting excuses for why:
White supremacy is on the rise.
Women's rights are under assault.
The planet is burning.
Oceans are awash in plastic.
People lack clean water and air...
I stopped accepting excuses for why:
White supremacy is on the rise.
Women's rights are under assault.
The planet is burning.
Oceans are awash in plastic.
People lack clean water and air...
WHAT RADICALIZED ME? (3)
I began to internalize the understanding that what we settle for is the most we'll get.
That if we say it's OK to let Trump get away with child torture, then he'll get away with it.
Because the establishment is about excuses for what they WON'T do...
I began to internalize the understanding that what we settle for is the most we'll get.
That if we say it's OK to let Trump get away with child torture, then he'll get away with it.
Because the establishment is about excuses for what they WON'T do...
WHAT RADICALIZED ME? (4)
I looked at myself in my 50s, with a family, and asked if I'd die happy knowing I accepted just a little injustice, just a little corruption, just a little inequality and unfairness. I asked if I could tolerate more incrementalism.
The answer is NO.
I looked at myself in my 50s, with a family, and asked if I'd die happy knowing I accepted just a little injustice, just a little corruption, just a little inequality and unfairness. I asked if I could tolerate more incrementalism.
The answer is NO.
WHAT RADICALIZED ME? (5)
It's not unrealistic or unreasonable or immature or naive to want ZERO injustice and to demand it.
I think of Tayari Jones's important question: "What is halfway between moral and immoral?"
In my mind, half-measures are simply not enough.
It's not unrealistic or unreasonable or immature or naive to want ZERO injustice and to demand it.
I think of Tayari Jones's important question: "What is halfway between moral and immoral?"
In my mind, half-measures are simply not enough.
