It felt good to be back and holding a sign encouraging drivers to honk their horns for jobs. How many evenings I have sat in my office listening to horns of the protest but not joining? It felt good to say that I will be back. It is hard right now; I feel self conscious holding the signs trying to get drivers to honk. But then it feels good when they do. When we have some sort of conversation through smiles and gestures and the honks of horns.
I wonder why I haven't been through more often. I wonder how to create a culture of swinging by for even like five minutes or two at least once a week. I think that is what Hamm might have been talking about in his keynote address to ECC for MLK Day this year. They have all these signatures of support from organizations but there is still not a mass movement. As a professor, I can bring this up to my class as something we can talk about. I can also talk about this in the UII Open Houses that are part of the Afternoons of Activism. How to build a commitment of individual participation?
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