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Protest, Hope and Power: Brief Thoughts on Keeping Our Eyes on the Push for Progress
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass
“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
I love the NBA. I love people. I love people who create positive change. I am political. I am also a fan who wants to watch the playoffs. This post is a reflection on what that means in this current moment.
The NBA is political. People are political because the political is the human. Political systems and ideas are embedded in everything. We don’t often see them, which allows them to both manipulate us and be manipulated.
It has taken a president who denies democracy and democratic values and a pandemic that has wiped away our norms and expectations to see just how vulnerable we are all as people, and how vulnerable our democracy and its functioning institutions are.
We are at a strange crossroads, involving a threatened presidential election, an ongoing…
