I thought this article was interesting, discussing the people in America who are angry and longing for a past day of greatness and those who are optimistic about the future. As a woman, I feel like today is a much better time to be alive than any time in the past, and I know that minorities feel the same. It is easy to romanticize the past and sweep the ugly stuff under the rug, but I don't think that does any good. If we want to really make progress as a society, we need to acknowledge the ugliness in the past so we can improve on things now.
Here's a paragraph from the article that stood out to me:
"For every disgruntled person out there who felt undone by the system and threatened by the way the country was changing, caught in the bind of stagnant wages or longing for an America of the past, we found someone who had endured decades of discrimination and hardship and yet still felt optimistic about the future and had no desire to go back. In this season of discontent, there were still as many expressions of hope as of fear. On a larger level, there were as many communities enjoying a sense of revival as there were fighting against deterioration and despair."
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