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02-28-2016, 06:30 PM
Radical imagination is a necessary, sustaining force of black activism
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The life of an activist can be mentally and emotionally exhausting. When you're dedicated to fighting inequality and injustice, you're signing up for a battle with the very forces that produce them — and it's a battle **t easily won.
When I chose to become an activist for the lives of black people, I didn't realize just how much it would require of me. By December 2015, when a grand jury declined to charge (http://mashable.com/2015/12/28/tamir-rice-shooting-**-charges/) the Cleveland police ******r responsible for killing 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the harsh reality of this work hit me especially hard — the weariness, hopelessness, powerlessness.*After protesting, organizing and lobbying, black children will still have their lives stolen, and ** one will be held accountable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/black-activism-radical-imagination/)
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The life of an activist can be mentally and emotionally exhausting. When you're dedicated to fighting inequality and injustice, you're signing up for a battle with the very forces that produce them — and it's a battle **t easily won.
When I chose to become an activist for the lives of black people, I didn't realize just how much it would require of me. By December 2015, when a grand jury declined to charge (http://mashable.com/2015/12/28/tamir-rice-shooting-**-charges/) the Cleveland police ******r responsible for killing 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the harsh reality of this work hit me especially hard — the weariness, hopelessness, powerlessness.*After protesting, organizing and lobbying, black children will still have their lives stolen, and ** one will be held accountable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/black-activism-radical-imagination/)
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