This was good. It had a bit of a deja vu feel. It certainly bears repeating.

You said that a majority of the population was more concern with tranquility and the status quo. That is true but it ignores the unshakeable racists who while not a majority are large enough to backstop and attack on the status quo.

I don't think we can make much progress on the national level, some parts of the country the poison is too strong.

I would suggest working to make some cities and maybe states improve.

When you use the word tired, I am not sure if you mean it like fatigued or impatient but probably both apply.

How do you get people to work against their own self-interest? Take a privileged person like myself. The status quo works for me benefits me, equality and justice cost me, does not make my life better, it might even make my life worse. I can afford to give up much of my privilege, the price is small and the reward the feeling you get for doing the right thing.

That is a hard sell to a working class white man. Give up his advantages to women and non-whites. It took me a while to get over the feeling of reverse discrimination I got from affirmative action. I don't know if you are familiar with that program in the U.S. that gave preferences to women and non-whites in hiring by the government. When I sent in resumes I got back Equal Employment Opportunity forms to fill out. I stopped applying for government jobs. I understood what they were trying to do but I did not understand how disadvantaged the unprivileged were. I grew up in an all white community and had lived in a multi-ethnic society for only a few years. It took this Yankee more than a couple years in the south to get this issue sorted. One thing I did get sorted was that yes it is a huge disadvantage being Black and another was that some people are so deeply racist that you can't change them. I am discovering that even some that I did not think were racist are just wolves in sheep's clothing.

The only bright spot I see is the generational shift. Younger people seem to be getting it more right.

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