Got it.  This not unsurprising fact actually echoes what happened in the
origins of the civil rights movement.  It wasn't the traditional Left but
religions and some labor figures that mobilized the numbers that morally
confronted and defeated segregation.

However, my point was that no movement seems to have come out of last
spring's mobilizations.  I say "seems" because the mobilizations amounted to
very little in Cincinnati.  From my perspective on it, this reflected the
dominance of religious leaders eager to make a moral point but not to
mobilize and empower the wider community.

I've honestly not heard about it, if the mobilizations last spring sparked
something elsewhere comparable to say the sit-ins that spread like wildfires
across the South in the 1950s.

Solidarity!
Mark L.

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