Kony 2012 Never Ended

Kony 2012 activists.
A decade ago, my friends and I were enlisted to fight an African warlord 7,000 miles away. The moral battle still rages on.
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Ten years ago today, the non-profit Invisible Children Inc., published a video on YouTube called “Kony 2012.” To date, it has been viewed 103 million times there and 18.7 million times on Vimeo, the platform where it was originally released.
On or around the same day, I was in class, in high school—I was a junior then—when my history teacher wrapped up …
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