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TaliesinMerlin t1_j070wz8 wrote

Reply to comment by MuddyWaterTeamster in U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp by scudobuio

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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