And we ll never be able to do it unless first on a moral level we acknowledge that the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak. And we allow the forms of social misery that rest just beneath all of the meretricious glitter and superficial sparkling surface that we see. Not just the Democratic and Republican conventions, but across our society. And the question is whether you re gonna give up, whether you re gonna give in, whether you re gonna sell out or whether you re gonna fight back. And we want to move that invisibility to visibility .
Globalization is real.
The question is whether we can democratize globalization or whether it will be corporate-dominated. And in the United States, there is no way that we re able to take this challenge seriously unless we wrestle substantitively with the legacy of white supremacy. The legacy of male supremacy. It s no accident that the vast majority of poor people women, children are disproportionately fellow citizens, human beings , of color. And we recognize that here at this Shadow Convention.