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Fatima Cortez-Todd: "We were very naive back in the sixties [...]"

(host) Anna Maria Tremonti: "So you say you were naive; are you saying essentially because you didn't fight for systemic or infrastructure change?"

Fatima Cortez-Todd: "Exactly. We thought changing a few laws, and making things accessible, that that was going to really have a major impact, and it did not have the systemic or the institutional change that needed to be made. We didn't address it that time, because we didn't really get it. And the issue of internalized oppression is that those policemen working as policemen have the same institutional values and attitudes as the power-brokers do. Because we have all been indoctrinated to believe that there is a hierarchy of value of people in this country, [...]"

-- from the CBC radio program The Current, 2015-05-04 (talking about the US)

[A couple of thoughts: (1) I guess this is part of the reason we still have so much left to do with regard to the civil rights struggles people like to think of as belonging to past decades, though I'm pretty sure that there'd still be work left to do there considering the folks trying to undo what did get done ... and (2) all y'all LGBT activists better not stop and declare your jobs done once same-sex marriage is in the bag -- there's a lot else to be done there.]