Margaret Atwood (June 30, 2022)

It's an almost-600-page book, but worth the read because it focuses on a pivotal year in a great country, where some were struggling for the civil rights of disenfranchised people, while others resisted.

"Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" by Diane McWhorter (2001)
#Books #CivilRights #History

If you don't have time to read the book, this might suffice:

"Bookmark with Don Noble: Diane McWhorter" (posted 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1rFK4WP3U

#CivilRights

Was this all for naught? No. It can never be so. We need to double our efforts.

"Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" by Diane McWhorter (2001)
#Books
https://www.librarything.com/work/35271/book/245776589

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_Me_Home_(book)

@sfleetucker Given the numbers, you are probably correct.

#Politics #Election

Well, as far as I have found, the House of Representatives numbers are still not final. I hope that the Democrats get control of that, at least.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-us-election-results/house/

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Waking up to the End of America - It happened here
(Mary L. Trump, Nov 07, 2024)

https://www.marytrump.org/p/waking-up-to-the-end-of-america

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The Aftermath. Fighting Fascism by Building On All That We Achieved During the Campaign
(Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Nov 06, 2024)

https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-aftermath-fighting-fascism-by

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Grieve Today, Fight Tomorrow: In the shadow of defeat, we can find our strength.
(Michelle H. Davis, Nov 06, 2024)

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/grieve-today-fight-tomorrow

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Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election
- Some background reading
(Sarah Kendzior, Nov 06, 2024)

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articles-explaining-the-2024

@Make7upyours Are you asking me or @MuellerSheWrote? I did not ask her but posted it verbatim with attribution.

Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote
(10:50 AM ET · Nov 6, 2024):

Biden should resign so Harris becomes 47 and Donald has to throw out all his 47 swag

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic
(11:15 PM ET · Nov 6, 2024):

"X is no longer a social-media site with a white-supremacy problem, but a white-supremacist site with a social-media problem," Charlie Warzel writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-white-supremacist-site/680538/

"I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case. But here's the thing, America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars. The light, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service. And may that work guide us, even in the face of setbacks toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America."

~ V.P. Kamala Harris, Nov. 6, 2024

"There's an adage an historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages. The adage is only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

~ V.P. Kamala Harris, Nov. 6, 2024

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Things are not quite the same after the U. S. Election results, more so than in 2016, for me at least. We need to do what we can.

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. ... it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices."

She would have been a great President.