Some things just get you down. You know how it is: you hear a stray piece of news or a tossed around remark that just grates you, chips away at something deep down. A headline. A Statistic. An insensitive joke. "No..." you'll say to yourself, "...that isn't funny, that shouldn't 'just happen,' it is a big deal." But you don't. You just sit there, shrug it off, smile through gritted teeth. "I'm not a hostile person, why argue? What's the point? I'm not going to solve anything here anyway, especially not with these people." We've all been there, pissed off, helpless, judgmental. I've been there too. We want to act in principle, but we don't. How can this last? How long will it last? At what point do we become so desensitized to all injustice that we are incapable of acting? Has this happened already? I hope not.
In the coming weeks we will be exploring some issues of injustice that are much closer to home than most of us realize. Things are happening right in our own backyards. This is a call to action.
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