It’s about time for an official TIME OUT just to get away from the idiot brigade of navel-gazing “deep thinkers” on social media and the professionally outraged who assume connecting a few phrases and ranting in public makes them special. They think they have the knowledge base and nuance to apply such terminology. They’re just hip words with no real meaning to them. But this isn’t new. Coon is the new “New Black”, Talking White is the new Respectability Politics.
Any social justice movement that is SUCCESSFUL takes vision, a plan, multiple people working in concert, focus, humility and strict boundaries.
When I see that emerging from all of this emotionalism, tunnel-vision and relying on seasonal support I will take it and these folks who claim they want change seriously.
You’ve got a long way to go! If you’re still at this 3-4 years from now and can show some infrastructure changes then you might be onto something.
I don’t expect these people to be around 6 months from now. But feel free to prove me wrong. I welcome it.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/12/rev_sharpton_responds_to_his_critics.html?wpisrc=burger
I was initially referencing the protests, but it all applies.
and the continued conversations related to BW who’ve circled BWE forums for years yet don’t apply most of what has been covered.
