Cimorene

And I think the generational aspect to so many of these culture wars underlines that progress is happening albeit maddeningly slowly.

My father, good idealist that he is, gets really depressed sometimes with the lack of progress we've made, and I usually throw King's quote at him, about "the arc of history is long, but trends towards justice." I know I wasn't in a place three years ago where I could hear what's being said in these conversations, and, yes, that says terrible things about me and/or my upbringing, but—now three years on I'm listening. So hopefully there will be folks reached this time who were not, last time. But it is maddeningly slow, and I wish there were a way to have this conversations without, you know, forcing fans of color into the role of educator forced to teach Racism 101 over...and over...and over again to a hostile class... you know?