“The words ‘bad timing’ came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning…they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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When people come together with courage and compassion for the oppressed, it’s the right time.
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Well put, JoAnna.
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This is true. So many people told Colin Kaepernick that the football field on game day was not the time or place when it truly was. That is a huge copout when someone would rather not address the situation than come up with a solution.
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Ugh, the Kaepernick thing made me crazy. Funny how they only care about “stick to sports” when people fight for BLM or women’s rights but it’s all cool when pro-Trump players got going.
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Too many want to go back to the good old days. Absolutely staggering.
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The part that really cuts there is the look on my kid’s face when someone says that. She knows their good old days were when people who looked like her were owned or segregated.
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Laura, it reminds me of those who do not want to speak about better gun governance right after a mass shooting. “Now is not the time,” is the common argument. Apparently, “never” is what the unstated message is. It is akin to a winning basketball team stalling at the end of the game when the other team has momentum. Keith
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It is! I’ve never understood the “you’re making the tragedy political” argument. No, we’re responding to a mass shooting event with action that could prevent the NEXT mass shooting event. How is that political??
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Agreed. It is political because the gun lobbyist money told them to make it political.
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And still there are those who want to turn back time π
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Well, they kinda liked the old days…
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yes
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Right?
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How true.
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