Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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So the march of history, the improvements of former generations mean nothing to you. They do to me. We improved at times, slid back at times. The point is what we do in our own time.
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So the march of history, the improvements of former generations mean nothing to you. They do to me. We improved at times, slid back at times. The point is what we do in our own time.
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It was built on an extraordinary combination of things, some good and some bad. But former generations didn’t owe us anything. It’s our responsibility to fix what’s wrong and further what’s right.
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Other generations had to fight off slavery, institutionalized suppression of women, institutionalized white supremacy. We're not facing a bigger foe than they did; it's our turn now.
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1/ Can we achieve the ideal without confronting the American reality?>> No.
We have a Constitution written for white, male, property owners.>> That's the irony. Most of them didn't embody the principles they bequeathed to us, but the principles remain enlightened nonetheless.
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Thanks. The fact that you didn’t, and the fact that I was so vilified you probably thought you wouldn’t even want to hear me, is exactly how they work now. It’s a more convenient way of silencing people.
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4/ Some might say “So there’s no hope then, right?” But there’s plenty of hope! It lies in a generational partnership between those who weren’t even around when all that happened, & those old enough & clear enough not to want to die knowing that they let the bastards get to them.
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3/ Far too many of us did as we were told, surrendering the public sphere to whoever it was that wanted to control it so badly. We poured our talents and intelligence mainly into the private sector, then woke up one day and realized “Oh my God, look what they did.” Big awakening.
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2/ We received the message, at least unconsciously, that we’d better leave the public sphere alone. That whoever wanted to control it so badly that they were willing to kill in order to do so, would have no problem coming for us as well.
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1/ There was a time when Americans gave more equal attention to both the private and the public spheres of life. After the assassination of the 1960s, people were scared away from the public sphere having received a loud unspoken message that it was a dangerous place to be.
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The American ideal is that nobody gets to “take over,” and that everyone has equal opportunity. Obviously we’ve never fully actualized that ideal but it’s the purpose of every generation to try to get there. Sometimes, like now, it’s 2 steps backwards. But we have to keep trying.
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Since the founding of our country the persecution of black people has been a national character defect. But we’ve pushed it back before & we’ll will push it back again. The vast majority of Americans are horrified by it and will rise to the challenge of casting it from our midst
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Oh do tell. That seems like code for the ridiculous notion that the current administration is a friend to our democracy. Men with long guns in State Capitols are “patriots?” Governors trying to protect public health are “tyrants?” And what did “you” build?
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2/ We are not powerless, and the fact that we’ve acted like we are is part of what has gotten us to this place. We can choose to participate in reimagining and reinventing our civilization. Each of us has a role to play in making this a better world.
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