a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are."
Slavery was divisive
Jim Crow was divisive
Unequal schools is divisive
2-tiered justice is divisive
Economic inequality is divisive
Redlining & Reaganomis & Wars on Drugs are divisive
Americas isn’t “becoming more divided”
It’s just getting harder for white people to ignore it
When that Hollywood exec said they want to starve workers into homelessness, they made a big mistake: they said it out loud.
The violence of poverty, evictions, and hunger always run rampant.
Normally its vague, systemic, but that exec showed it's also deliberate human choice.