Reply #19: Remember, too, how bleak the picture was for [View All]

[WildClarySage]

African Americans in the '30s and '40s in the American South. I realize that there remains much work to be done, but consider how far we have come. It's when things are hardest, that people find out how strong they can be. I know that sounds like a platitude, but it isn't. Don't underestimate the power of pissedness.

ed for clarity and because I'm smashed thanks to vicodin and a sore jaw