Kindly, MK, Civil rights and voting rights became law with a pen stroke. How long ago? And what are we seeing right now? Precisely what has changed? A pen stroke is just that: symbolic. But what is more powerful is the vitriolic response to what those pen strokes are supposed to MEAN. If those pen strokes are subverted, fought against and undermined in every way shape and form, then they are ultimately, meaningless. As in, symbolic, but useless.