Something’s happening in America (Leonard Pitts)

[struggle4progress]

... Some observers dismiss the protests as “street theater,” an easy charge given the loopy eccentrics who have been attracted to the movement like iron shavings to electromagnets. On the other hand, much of the anti-war movement, the women’s movement and the civil rights movement (rest in peace, Fred Shuttlesworth) was also street theater, and those seem to have turned out fairly well ...

But one suspects (or maybe just hopes) it would be a mistake to write off these events too quickly. “There comes a time,” Martin Luther King once said, “when people get tired.”

When you spend evenings with pad and pen, trying to get the numbers on one side of the paper to line up with those on the other, when you spend nights not sleeping, wondering how long your job will last, when you spend days paying more money for less service, when it begins to seem as if the government that should be working for you is a wholly owned subsidiary of American business, when billions of dollars of your taxes go to bail out money pigs who were too big to fail, when your fears are met with a tone-deafness bordering on contempt (“Corporations are people,” says Mitt Romney; “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself,” says Herman Cain; BofA has “a right to make a profit,” says CEO Brian Moynihan) — when that is your reality, you have good reason to be tired. Indeed, sick and ...

Granted, we don’t yet know what’s happening here, but one thing seems apparent: Something is.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/oct/11/somethings-happening-in-america/

[truedelphi]

1. And what it is - is exactly clear! Economic injustice! n/t