The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed because the institutional pathways were built and put in place. The marches mobilized the people the organizing had been forming for decades. https://www.texasobserver.org/supreme-court-vra-decision-civic-infrastructure/
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@TexasObserver then boomers walked away. They convinced themselves that "they did the work" and "solved racism". They put their heads in the sand and paved the way for the unraveling of everything that was fought for because it's inconvenient and uncomfortable to oppose systemic racism
@bebadefabo I think it's more that they focused on the direct effects while leaving the indirect effects outside the scope of their goals.
They didn't walk away so much as they were never on board with going after the indirect effects in the first place.
