Your activism hasn't even come near to pulling any roots. While you may have made some people's lives a tiny bit less oppressive, you have not freed them, nor have you solved the real problem of American society. Likewise, while individual caretaking may help free a few individuals, it does not solve the problem. These are all good actions, but they are not enough. The metaphorical roots of this problem though, are tightly buried within society and people's minds, and will be extremely hard to pull out. But if we try to solve the problem where it occurs locally, and this happens everywhere, the roots will eventually also be destroyed. Of course, this is also very difficult to accomplish. But we are fighting for our and other's LIVES here. We will have to fight as best we can, in any way we can.