Maybe We Haven’t Come so Far After All

Shirley Chisolm, the first black woman electedd to congress in 1969 made the following observation: “It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking to way they submit to forces they know are worng and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their prestige, their power, their privileges so inportant that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?”

Maybe we haven’t come so far after all.