It's utterly bonkers that we ever think of our societies as just.
At best, we're a mess of people with loosely related notions of common destiny, burning with competing internal convictions of what justice entails, trying to scrape out small, reactive wins in systems broken by design.
The cruelty of humanity, and its strategic indifference to *some* suffering, is never surprising.
What's surprising is the hope we still carry into the fight for something better, age after wounded age. #History
I misread that as 1965 my first time, too! Must be the font. It's 1955, the year of my mother's birth. She was born a few months after Ruby Bridges, too, so I tend to use her lifespan as a reminder of how very much *not* "old history" these injustices are.
@MLClark Oh, yes, you're right! 1955. It is not "old history" at all.
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Man.
1965.
SMDH.