Vast and sharp inequities

From “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger” by Rebecca Traister, published in 2018…

In the fury of women lies the power to change the world.

“Here was the beating heart of how to continue to fight for a better country when the country is designed to quash fights. And here was where the past offered lessons.

I thought about the vast and sharp inequities on which the United States had been built, and how structurally improbable it was that they had ever been corrected to any degree. How do you fight to end slavery in a country whose economic and political systems were built on top of it?

How do you demand humane treatment for workers from workplaces that profit from the exploitation of those workers?

In short, the eternal American question: How do you reform systems designed from the start to rebuff and punish reformers?

How do you enfranchise women when many white women opposed their own enfranchisement?”