what radicalized you? socio-political essay
Radicalization is a process stirred by experience and unrelenting care. Before Grandma Jane died in 2017 she worked for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for those who aren't familiar. Her first case was in 1995, the Oklahoma City Bombing, which remains one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in U.S.. history, taking 168 lives in just an instant. When they called her she was there, prepared to be a shoulder to any grieving parent, with a thick-skinned chest and heart of steel, but a heart nonetheless. She wouldn't ask much more than she needed to because she always understood enough. She didn’t need to Imagine her girls in body bags to care about the victims. She didn’t need to cry to prove her empathy, she just did as she promised and offered shelter, handed out blankets, and noted who and what was still missing. Before working for FEMA, she worked picking up after fire accidents, she recalled entering a nursery, with liquifying cribs, charred teddy bears,...