What needs to be done

 History certainly is a blueprint of change, but it is also documentation of how some things have not changed as much as we would like to think. In the post-Reconstruction period, during the establishment of the First Jim Crow period, it was deemed a social necessity by Whites to use violence and socioeconomic pressure to "teach niggers their place", and during the height of the nascent revolution that was the Civil Rights Movement, television allowed us to document the violence used by police and others against us and our allies. We find ourselves at yet another moment in history, so I humbly suggest we learn from the path behind us, so as to walk a different path forward. We need to educate OURSELVES, as the American Educational system falls further from relevance. We need to work together and EMPLOY EACH OTHER, as the larger economy demonstrates it only exists as a tool for capital accumulation for a few, not a "rising tide" lifting all ships. We need to ACTIVATE POLITICAL POWER. as politics is a game of power, and there is no way to win begging for mercy from those who don't value compassion. This will also force the national discourse BACK TO THE CENTER LEFT, and away from the right-wing edge of xenophobic, misogynistic, tribalized oligarchy and neoconservatism. Lastly, we need to arm ourselves, both literally and metaphorically, with the tools necessary to engage in a long, vicious fight with a remorseless enemy. WE NEED TO BE A COMMUNITY AGAIN. If we can do that, there are those who will flock to our cause as naturally as birds migrating towards warmer, more hospitable climes. The lines are being drawn, the drums of war are beating in the streets of America again...