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mcar

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Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:41 PM Aug 2020

Connie Schultz: Finding Hope in Her Ambition

This is a beautiful column. Most paragraphs are one sentence long so I'm excerpting what I can. I recommend the entire piece.


Finding Hope in Her Ambition
By Connie Schultz

...I've been angry because I'm to-the-bone tired of this movie. I'm tired of the decades — my whole lifetime — of waiting and waiting and waiting. I'm tired of these degrading notions of what a woman can and cannot do and how too many women still believe them....

But for the first time in many months, I feel a rumbling deep inside that is lifting me out of this weariness.

Let's call it hope.

Not campaign-slogan hope. Not blow-and-make-a-wish hope. This is the kind of hope that you feel only when your heart believes what your eyes can see, and it rises up inside you like a song.

What I see is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants who will become the first Black woman and first Asian American woman to be vice president of the United States.

What I see is Sen. Kamala Harris walking onstage and standing shoulder to shoulder with Joe Biden, ready to lead.

What I see is a parting in the storm clouds, a future for our country.

Sing, heart, sing.

https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/08/20/finding-hope-in-her-ambition

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Connie Schultz: Finding Hope in Her Ambition (Original Post) mcar Aug 2020 OP
Beautiful. northoftheborder Aug 2020 #1
Connie is Sherrod Brown's Wife - They Are One of My Favorite Political Couples Indykatie Aug 2020 #2
Mine too mcar Aug 2020 #4
Lovely! Hekate Aug 2020 #3
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