the-real-seebs:heroofthreefaces:meagenimage:heroofthreefaces:thackerybiinx:I saw this on Twitter and
the-real-seebs:heroofthreefaces:meagenimage:heroofthreefaces:thackerybiinx:I saw this on Twitter and thought tumblr needed to see this. This is respectibility politics, isn’t it? No, this is “picking a strategy that has a better chance of success“. But it doesn’t. Never in history has patience brought about needed change. It takes activism and agitation. Daryl Davis.Just look up the dude who ended the KKK in Maryland, and look at how he did it: By being friends with Klan members. And not fighting with them, or yelling at them, just being friends and talking to them.Dude now has a closet full of the robes and hoods people sent him when they decided they were never wearing them again.One dude. Doing nothing but being patient.In fact, patience is essential to needed change, because “patience” doesn’t mean “not trying to change things”, it means thinking about your strategy.Yelling at people for not being perfect doesn’t make them change. Congratulating them on improvement does. -- source link