Thanks To You, A Cultural Renaissance Is Sprouting Out Of Decline

The Black Sheep Future You’re Helping Us Build

Before I learned to tell the truth and accept its painful consequences as the noble price for sticking to my principles, what kept me quiet was often the silence of others.

When people started pushing the idea that your race could entitle you to less or more of an opinion, that public shaming and career loss were fair consequences for just about anything, and that encouraging people to damage and loot local businesses was “retributive justice,” I could feel something was wrong but couldn’t see anyone saying so. It’s harder to question the herd when you’re afraid of what your life without it might look like.

Many of us have been looking behind the wizard’s curtain for so long we can’t imagine considering anything without a dose of skepticism, but there’s a first time for everyone, and the first time you realize things aren’t always what they seem is the hardest.

Enter: The Black Sheep. Since we launched a year ago, we’ve been a home for people who feel loyalty to something bigger than pee…