It's both a means & an end. We have to keep theorizing, practicing, trying, defending the ideal until we arrive at the realization of it. Human rights-based democracy & racism can't co-exist and that's why we've yet to see it realized here. The human rights part is imperative. 1/ https://twitter.com/SooperSoulja/status/1198256960862400512

I think we need to be mindful that for most of human civilization we've had kingship & authoritarian rulers so this concept of shared power is relatively new for most of the world's populations. Ppl are very accustomed to strict hierarchies of power. 2/

It's not only the kings & dictators who uphold this way of being. At a micro level people often behave oppressively towards others in the workplace, in the home, etc. So it's not like people are getting many opportunities to practice shared power. 3/

This is also why people are still very wedded to the idea of having a single charismatic leader who makes all of the decisions for us and why people struggle with the concept of shared leadership or a decision-making process that is bottom-up instead of top-down. 4/4