It doesn’t have to be this way.

History is a nightmare from which none of us can wake. Imagining it otherwise isn’t so much a challenge to the truth as it is a protest against necessity. It didn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be this way.**





Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook" 

[...] the activist and laborer James Boggs argued for the revolutionary potential of the black struggle for civil rights. “The strength of the Negro cause and its power to shake up the social structure of the nation,” Boggs wrote, “comes from the fact that in the Negro struggle all the questions of human rights and human relationships are posed.” That is because it is a struggle for equality “in production, in consumption, in the community, in the courts, in the schools, in the universities, in transportation, in social activity, in government, and indeed in every sphere of American life.”


Beyond White Fragility 
“The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook,”  
image,article: American Fascism: It Has Happened Here
** Once Upon a Timeline in America