Sunday, February 7, 2010
And Some Inspiration
This very marvelous piece about the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, which recently had their 50th anniversary, ran in my hometown paper today. I really appreciated the writer's understanding of the history of activism, that it must look forward. And the parallels he draws between then and now are interesting.
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It's a positive development that the second unsettling communicative force in politics - the Internet, after TV - is one that we participate in.
Then there's the ambivalence about activism. It seems to work, yet often public polling indicates that specific instances of it, like the sit-ins, were counterproductive or "harmful to the movement." But...there would be no movement without activism.
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