Ruminations
“Societies and societies are actually complicated … This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s unpleasant. And your task as a resident and as a decent person is to regularly attest and lift up and defend treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you need to anticipate that at any kind of given minute there’s mosting likely to be flare-ups of bigotry that you might need to face, or might be inside you and you need to vanquish. And it does not quit … You don’t get involved in a fetal position concerning it. You don’t start bothering with apocalypse. You claim, O.K., where are the places where I can press to keep it moving on.”
– BO