We are in a moment of moral and political clarity.
People are joining together to reassert demands for equity: voting rights, a living wage, justice and public safety, a sustainable environment, universal health care, food security, decent housing, public education, LGBTQ freedoms. Democracy.
The opposing response from Republicans, white and religious supremacists, authoritarians, and the selfish uber-wealthy to all of these assertions is equally transparent, predictable and consistent: “Don’t you dare assert your humanity.”
The resolution is not compromise or equivocation because the right to humanity is absolute.
Arthur H. Camins is a lifelong educator. He writes about education and social justice. He works part-time with science curriculum developers at UC Berkeley as an assessment specialist. He has taught and led science education programs in New York City, Massachusetts, and Kentucky, and New Jersey. The ideas expressed in this article are his alone.