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MuddyWaterTeamster t1_j06ocr1 wrote

Got the stamp, because that’s all our system is capable of accomplishing anymore. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act failed. Good work, everyone?

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TaliesinMerlin t1_j070wz8 wrote

I don't think John Lewis would agree with the despairing tone of this post. If something fails, what do you do? You get back out there and get in trouble, good trouble, to make it happen. You believe in change, rather than sitting on your hands like the white moderates Dr. King wrote about in his letter from an Alabama jail.

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MuddyWaterTeamster t1_j077o5o wrote

Yes, anger at elected officials not delivering on their promises is always wrong and must be replaced by doing even more activism their donors pay them to ignore.

I don’t despair, that would require the possibility of an alternative.

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TaliesinMerlin t1_j077zz1 wrote

No, it's right to be angry. But believing that "that's all our system is capable of accomplishing anymore" is defeatist tripe.

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DeviousMelons t1_j09bv87 wrote

He also has a class of Navy Ship named after him, its an oil tanker but very important for Naval stuff.

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