Closing the value gap requires transforming living conditions, not just hearts

Evidence

Given this gap, the idea, one so powerfully expressed by Martin Luther King, that the nation must experience a fundamental change of the heart is not some sentimental, apolitical notion that ignores structural matters. It reflects, instead, that closing the value gap has both moral and political significance. We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together. This will require setting aside our comforting illusions. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 121

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘change of heart’ is structural, not sentimental — a corrective to reading King’s language as apolitical.
• XREF: connects to: Material barriers and funding rules constrain sustainable values from becoming practice. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 74