The arc of history doesn’t bend unless you jump up and down on it https://t.co/YmWoxG7KX8

— John Leavitt 🌹 (@LeavittAlone) May 24, 2020

There is no arc of history. There is what you make happen and what you forego, chanting the centrist mantra of “nothing is possible.” The whole “arc of history” idea is just a high-minded gloss on the “nothing is possible” philosophy because it implies actions without actors, events without causes, and that justice occurs because it is moral.

This is not the way history bends and not what moves the world. Power and action mobilize change. Nothing else does.