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Diversity Rules Magazine
November 2019
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can dictate who feeds their families and who
doesn't. Laws have always been bandied about, re-
interpreted, applied rightly or wrongly, bent and ig-
nored, depending on who is in power.
And that's where the ac vism of the last sixty years
does make a lick of sense. We-the-people, must
stand against courts which would sustain the imbal-
ance of power and we must stand for the use of law
to protect workers from prejudice, to protect vet-
erans who live in the streets with their war night-
mares, women ba ered into submission by employ-
ers and partners, queer people whose existence is
an offense in the eyes of all-powerful beholders.
I no longer believe we can stop a war, erase bigotry,
take power and use it for only good. I no longer suit
up with a wet bandana headband for tear gas, carry
a rolled-up newspaper for protec on, stay ever on
the lookout for escape routes should the march, the
rally, the sit-down, turn dangerous. I know now that
the rabble-rousing must go on and on if only to keep
the lid on the inhumanity of humanity.
