The Political Imagination
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"I think your imagination may be getting the best of you."
As my canthi rose, she said this to me calmly. "There isn't a great conspiracy to keep certain people down; people get what they work for." I knew she was wrong, but I didn't understand why. I had a hunch that the world wasn't as meritocratic as people claimed, but I couldn't prove it. I had tried to explain to her the disparity in treatment that I had witnessed between the "haves" and the "have-nots" at our school and how I suspected this dynamic carried over into the "real" world, but she shut me down.
