Well fellow Kossacks, as I sit here reading similar posts from those who are equally worn out and spent from this two and half year race, I can't help but reflect on the historical nature of this.
Like many of you, I was born in an era of segregation, my parents and grandparents still carry that mentality with them, and a good many of the people I encounter in my daily life continue in ignorance. Many too carry sexism and ignorance with them and wear it like a badge.
Evidence abounds in the recent hate-speech we've heard in the Repub rallies.
I simply wanted to offer a breath of fresh air, and something to comtemplate and share.
Herewith, words of wisdom.
Frederick Douglass:
People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution. (1893)
Gloria Steinem:
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.