an important distinction

If June Jordan were still alive and wasn't felled by complications in her cancer treatment that are directly symptomatic of this fucking mess we call a 'healthcare system', she would fly, bus, and drive to every town hall meeting this whole country over, saying the same words she said a decade ago, for their prescience, for their staying power, for the haunting decision this moment asks us to make:

"A democratic nation of persons, of individuals, is an impossibility, and a fratricidal goal. Each American one of us must consciously choose to become a willing and outspoken part of the people who, together, will determine our individual chances for happiness, and justice."