Thought Fragment II sometimes wonder
Thought Fragment I
I sometimes wonder what value there is in all this public debate. I know it has had great value in the past…both the minister's podium and the crates on almost every corner north of 125th Street in Harlem had tremendous impact on the civil rights struggle in the 60s. But times change and the statements are reinterpreted-or discarded. The meanings we fought so hard to create are separated from the words used to express them. The meanings are shaded, and those shaded meanings are allowed into our minds, hearts and spirits because they are carried by words we have come to respect and love.
More than that, I find the words used came after the meanings they expressed were accepted. And I find the acceptance of those ideas weren't so much a matter of convincing people to join a movement as of showing people they were already in the mix.
