History has been made by the collective efforts of people and by an
ever-expanding community of struggle. The heroisation of a few is better
left to a corporate media in perpetual need of leaders. Nelson Mandela
and Martin Luther King always made clear that their accomplishments were
collective, "achieved by the women and the men who were their
comrades".
![The #Oscarssowhite hashtag would not have existed without the Black Panthers or Black Lives Matter, writes Barat [Getty]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tnj2tHRuhL4AKR5VV4C7eEl7g0TwqZsRjJeeytbBGCPxaKM64-wvkES94jGvV2QOK5G_jaPWOxmNeBAzVCIAJAaAIHb80W0ep9nmxUBvQ6jy79a_1dPrc2tkeJJDBa_AkfvGpYeIbmCwvMdefOTDLxOJfJlss8uKLyegCXcE2p-jVVDvlmd3NFeSUuFzQ-oglCqcuebquC7KM=s0-d "Freedom is a constant struggle")
