In 30 Years, Will Anyone Remember Her Name?

There was another name that time forgot…

Alexainie
2 min readSep 25, 2019
Source: The New York Times

Everyone’s Talking about Greta Today

And they should be. What she’s done — what she’s doing — is not a small thing.

It’s courageous.
It’s important.
It’s so much more than most people are doing.

And in a week, or a month, or a year, it won’t matter.
Not to those with the power to really exact universal changes.

Not to white men in white robes.

“She’s just a child”, they’ll say. “She doesn’t really understand the way things work.”

They’ll be wrong. And it won’t matter.

Why am I being so negative about such a wonderful effort?

Because folks, we’ve been right here before. Only no one seems to be talking about that.

I know this is true because it took me half an hour to even find the topic anywhere on the internet. A topic that, along with Greta’s speech at the UN summit, should be trending.

About another young girl, standing in front of the same audience, saying the same things.

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Alexainie
Alexainie

Written by Alexainie

I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know I want it to be spelled right and punctuated correctly. I guess that’s something.

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