Connie Schultz: Finding Hope in Her Ambition
This is a beautiful column. Most paragraphs are one sentence long so I'm excerpting what I can. I recommend the entire piece.
Finding Hope in Her Ambition
By Connie Schultz
...I've been angry because I'm to-the-bone tired of this movie. I'm tired of the decades — my whole lifetime — of waiting and waiting and waiting. I'm tired of these degrading notions of what a woman can and cannot do and how too many women still believe them....
But for the first time in many months, I feel a rumbling deep inside that is lifting me out of this weariness.
Let's call it hope.
Not campaign-slogan hope. Not blow-and-make-a-wish hope. This is the kind of hope that you feel only when your heart believes what your eyes can see, and it rises up inside you like a song.
What I see is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants who will become the first Black woman and first Asian American woman to be vice president of the United States.
What I see is Sen. Kamala Harris walking onstage and standing shoulder to shoulder with Joe Biden, ready to lead.
What I see is a parting in the storm clouds, a future for our country.
Sing, heart, sing.
https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/08/20/finding-hope-in-her-ambition
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