daytime creature

The Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans, all dark-skinned Indian people, had a highly developed culture here in America, in what is now Mexico and northern South America. These people had mastered agriculture at the time when European white people were still living in mud huts and eating weeds. But white children, or black children, or grown-ups here today in America don’t get to read this in the average books they are exposed to.

Honestly who cares if teenagers are making $15/hour? Teens can belong to abusive households and need money to get away. Teens can be poor. A $15 minimum wage might actually prevent kids from dropping out of school to work.

THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS SAID

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.