and democratic struggle, there s no permanent victories, no permanent defeats. i think it s important for people to understand that in this context, because the works got to continue. i mean this idea that people have to be engaged, at the ground level you know, in a state of quasi-permanent emergency, is a hard thing to hear. but i think the truth. it s absolutely true. , i feel like the black community understands this in a very visceral. way the idea that we have this democracy, that has always been so free and fair and, it has been snatched away, just in the past number of years, is obviously not the truth. it s not a historical truth. it s not the truth of the viscerally have lived. our grand so, that constant vigilance is necessary. if you zoom back, i think it s really important i wrote about this today, in a medium post. i think it s so important to