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Name: Make Change
Rating: 3.8 (179 reviews)
Author: Shaun King

Shaun King

How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

3.8 (179 Bewertungen)

22 Min.

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Make Change by Shaun King is a call to action for anyone looking to make a positive impact on society. King tells his personal story and shares strategies and ideas for fighting injustice while also inspiring readers to take action in their own communities.

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to start making a real difference in the world.

Are you ready to hear some bitter truths?

In the past few years, American police have shot an average of three people a day – and a disproportionate number of them were Black. Additionally, income inequality in the US has skyrocketed, the cost of healthcare has become untenable, and over half a million people are homeless. Oh, and if we don’t drastically reduce emissions right now, in just a few years time it will be entirely too late to stop climate change.

If you’re an empathetic, informed human being in the modern world, the size and scope of our social, economic, and environmental problems can seem overwhelming. You might dream of making the world a better place. But when it comes to actually doing something about it, you may feel totally helpless. After all, what can you, a single person, do about any of these huge issues?

The truth is, any successful movement for social change is made up of individuals just like you. These Blinks look into the ideas of civil rights activist Shaun King and show the tips, tools, and strategies you need to get started – and what our movements need to succeed.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

the single most important takeaway from human history;
the three indispensable components of any successful movement; and
why one win outweighs a dozen losses.

In order to understand change, you need to understand history.

The most profound insight about how the world works came to Shaun in a college class he didn’t really want to take.

It was 2015, and he’d just gotten more serious about his activism. Over the past few months, he’d emerged as a leading social media figure in the budding Black Lives Matter movement. But the many setbacks the movement had suffered were taking a toll on him. In November 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice had been shot in Cleveland, Ohio, for playing with a toy gun. A little later, the police officers responsible for the murder of Michael Brown and Eric Garner had been cleared of all charges.

So Shaun tried to build a deeper foundation for his work by enrolling in the Master of African American Studies program at Arizona State University.

Here’s the key message: In order to understand change, you need to understand history.

In one of his first classes, Introduction to Historiography, Shaun learned about Leopold von Ranke – a nineteenth-century German historian who’d attempted to compile a complete timeline of world history. Initially, Shaun was convinced that the theories of an old, white German man couldn’t possibly provide any useful insight into modern-day activism.

But Ranke's grand historical project revealed something that shook up Shaun's entire worldview. Up until then, Shaun had believed that human history was evolving toward peace and justice.

But Ranke’s timeline showed that history was a constant fluctuation of peaks and dips: peace and war, prosperity and famine, fascism and freedom. Reliably, progressive pushes to make the world a better place were followed by conservative backlash. For instance, when Black people enjoyed a brief period of relative freedom after the Civil War, the American South soon introduced oppressive Jim Crow laws that constituted an updated version of slavery.

And right now, one could argue that we’re living in the “dip” following the election of America’s first Black president, Barack Obama. But none of history’s worst dips – war, genocide, or fascism – have happened out of the blue. Even the election of a right-wing demagogue like Donald Trump had a decade-long buildup. Trump’s presidency was enabled by economic, social, and political structures set up long ago and allowed to thrive by people who chose not to see their systemic flaws.

And while it’s easy to slide into a dip, it’s a lot harder to come out of one. Doing so requires many people working together to build a better future – people like you.

Your story determines the causes you care about.

Police reform, better health care, climate justice – there’s a thousand good causes to start fighting for right now. And if we want to create a better world, we’ll need to advance each of them.

As a compassionate individual, you probably care about many issues. But those closest to your heart are determined by your own personal backstory.

Decide on a cause, forget your excuses, and start making a change.

There’s likely more than one cause that you connect with personally and feel passionate about. That’s OK! But if you want to become an effective agent of change, you’ll have to ask yourself a tough question: What do I care about the most?

As individuals, we have limited time and resources. And while you may care about, discuss, and amplify many different causes, you can only effectively fight for one.

Get to work, find your gift, and learn the rest along the way.

Now that you’re ready to start effecting change, you might come up against another hurdle: you don’t know where to begin! But don’t worry – your next concrete steps are actually pretty easy.

Go online and research leading organizations dedicated to your cause. Find one that has a local chapter near you, and email them to ask how you can get started as a volunteer. You can also show up to one of their public events. Becoming an activist is as simple as that!

Every movement needs three things – energized people, good organization, and a solid plan.

You’re invested in your cause because you believe it to be good, right, and true. Surely, it can’t be all that hard to get other people on the side of something that embodies these characteristics – right?

The truth is, even though most people mean no harm, many of them are complacent, misinformed, or easily manipulated. This means it often takes just a few people with money and power to thwart a progressive social movement. It also means that good intentions alone are not enough to create significant, systemic change.

Activism is not about winning every fight; it’s about learning from failures and bouncing back.

All of us are afraid of failure. And in activism, failures can hurt particularly bad. Imagine putting in hours and hours of work for a good cause – just to see it falter.

But here’s the thing: you will fail. When you’re up against big, evil, and corrupt systems of injustice, you will fail much more often than you will win. Take Bernie Sanders, who lost five times in a row when he first started running for the US Senate in the 1970s.

Change won’t happen until you make it happen.

History is often presented to us as a highlight reel of triumphs and catastrophes. It makes sense – if you want to tell a good story, you only focus on the interesting parts.

But what you can’t see from this narrativized perspective is that big historical events never just happen. From the abolition of slavery to the Civil Rights Act, historical moments of change didn’t come about because of a few protests or speeches. They were the result of thousands of small things done by thousands of real humans living real lives and dealing with real problems.

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Informed by the life and work of successful social justice activist Shaun King, Make Change (2020) is your guide on how to join the fight for a better world. King is a leading figure in the fight against police brutality and mass incarceration in America, and his wins and losses along the way have taught him vital lessons on how to create real, lasting social change. No matter the cause you’re invested in, these blinks will show you how to use your skills and resources to make a real difference.

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Make that problem into your problem.

—Shaun King

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Budding activists and future organizers
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Über den Autor

Shaun King is a civil rights activist and organizer committed to fighting police brutality, mass incarceration, and racial injustice in America. After the murder of Eric Garner in 2014, he became one of the leading figures of the Black Lives Matter movement. He has written for the New York Daily News and the Intercept, spearheads organizations such as Grassroots Law and the Real Justice PAC, and was named one of the 25 most influential people on the internet by Time magazine in 2018.

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