Holding Vision in a Season of Reckoning
Hold the Vision in a Season of Reckoning I believe deeply that what we hold in vision, we can collectively bring into being. There are more of us! May we change the algorithm! May we hold the vision! “I must confess that that dream that I had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare. Now I’m not one to lose hope. I keep on hoping. I still have faith in the future. But I’ve had to analyze many things over the last few years and I would say over the last few months, I’ve gone through a lot of soul-searching and agonizing moments. And I’ve come to see that we have many more difficulties ahead and some of the old optimism was a little superficial and now it must be tempered with a solid realism. And I think the realistic fact is that we still have a long, long way to go.” (MLK, Jr. Interview with NBC, May 8, 1967). After reading this quote from a post that ran across my feed on Martin Luther King’s birthday this year, I wrote that the real nightmare — and the sobering tr...
