Conservative Justices Voice Skepticism on Voting Law

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13. Civil rights can not simply wait for old men to die off and be replaced

Where is the line in the sand drawn?

We talk about overturning civil rights as if it were a news story, not an attack on our lives. Where and when do we stop talking and start acting? How are we to determine the appropriate actions to take?

With politicians, we can wage campaigns to remove them from office. How do we deal with corruption and antagonism on the Supreme Court? We rightly refuse to use force as a tool, and so we are left with time as our only ally.

But what do we do when we finally determine that civil rights can not simply wait for old men to die off and be replaced?

Do we engage in civil disobedience? Mass strikes? Those will last only as long as it takes for the next iPhone to be released. At the height of the OWS movement, I argued with "friends" who could only complain that the protesters slowed down their daily commute to work. Poor babies....millions of acres of forests, all blocked from view by a bunch of trees.

If we aren't willing to fight for a right, then we've defaulted to the position that the right is actually a privilege and that if we're not good little tools, those privileges can be withheld. I don't want to live in that world. I don't want my kids to grow up with that concept of "normal."