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Maybe it's Historian's Complaint, but I waited a hundred and twenty-one years to vote. My grandmother couldn't vote until she was 23. My mother was always a secretary, never an account manager. If they take my rights away, I'll bide my time and take them back. If Abigail Adams could admonish her husband to remember the ladies, and Inez Mulholland could literally give everything she had, you'd better be sure that giving me time to plan is a Bad Idea. Don't get me started on my co-conspirators.
But the only way that happens--permanently--is to wait for time to pass, for the old regime to die. And you can rail that the new regime is no different from the old, but I say that it is. Log Cabin Republicans were unthinkable forty years ago. Heck, a black, Republican, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of State was unthinkable.
Until then we wait. We do our best to do right by ourselves and by all the people we come in contact with. We teach our children, not just as parents or in the classroom but by word and example to all.
And we outlive them.
But the only way that happens--permanently--is to wait for time to pass, for the old regime to die. And you can rail that the new regime is no different from the old, but I say that it is. Log Cabin Republicans were unthinkable forty years ago. Heck, a black, Republican, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of State was unthinkable.
Until then we wait. We do our best to do right by ourselves and by all the people we come in contact with. We teach our children, not just as parents or in the classroom but by word and example to all.
And we outlive them.
