You know how sometimes you see things in your media stream, and the seemingly random juxtaposition suddenly refocuses something and then you see relationships where you didn't before?
Ya. That.
There's this, and this article about improving education.
We're not free until we're all free. We all get free together.
Then there was this article followed by a discussion about "identity politics" and a facebook comment from an amazing intelligent young man I really respect about how "identity politics" is going to bring down the Democratic party. In my experience, all politics is identity politics. It's just white-identity-politics is called "politics". The white experience is considered the norm, so anything else is dismissed as "identity politics".
We're not free until we're all free. We all get free together.
Then I remembered a story about OXO good grips I heard on NPR. OXO products were designed for people with arthritis, but it turned out that a really good design was better for a lot of people.
We're not free until we're all free. We all get free together.
Designing a good product, a good system, or a good policy, takes a lot of work. It takes time and energy. It's so tempting to say "good enough", we got the worst of it, dust our hands and call it done. So tempting. I get it, we're tired. I'm tired.
But the extra effort to really make it better for everyone, to make it equitable and not just convenient, not even just equal, but truly equitable, it does make it better for everyone. Even those who didn't expect to benefit from it do.
We're not free until we're all free. We all get free, together.
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