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Revolutions Take Time. Don’t Give Up.
Danielle Moodie’s important take on why we continue to march
Sometimes a columnist hits the proverbial nail on the head with a few short words. Danielle Moodie, writing for ZORA, did just that in an eye-opening reminder that revolution and uprisings take time and concerted effort and endurance. Change doesn’t happen overnight.
Moodie writes:
It’s been barely half a century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which desegregated public areas and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 secured unfettered voting rights for Black Americans. Surprisingly, however, many White people (and some Black, tbh) seem to be confused when it comes to time and the fight for equity. There is this underlying desire to consistently tell Black people to “just wait” for equity as if we haven’t been patient for 500-plus years while everything we build and champion is destroyed by White rage. And worse, while we sit patiently and nonviolently, waiting to be released from the stranglehold of White supremacy, they want us to do so with gratitude and a smile.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. And it was not just a moral fight, it was an economic one. Don’t be surprised if the modern-day protests last even longer.
Endurance is key.
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