2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter! Period. Therefore I Have Altered my Primary Intentions. [View all]lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Thanks for turning my attention toward that article. A lot of things are churning. It's been a tough week for a lot of us here. We share similar anxieties about the direction of our country.
I feel like a fever is about to break. Many who post here, and people like Pramila Jayapal, the state senator from Washington's 37th District, want significant improvement in a lot of areas. No more business as usual. We have to move forward together. I have your back whether you support Hillary or Martin. You have mine though I'm undecided & leaning toward Bernie or Martin. We know we'll support each other and support democrats.
I've learned from many here. I'm grateful for that my friend. The issues are too critical and our online friendship too valuable to divide us. It's a lifelong struggle & I'm happy being part of it with you & many here. We're flawed, yes, but we're still good folks. We will continue searching for and supporting progress and having each others' backs.
To quote Jayapal's beautiful article:
'To build a movement, we have to be smarter than those who are trying to divide us. We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. We need our outlets too, our places of safety where we can say what we think without worrying about how it's going to land, where we can call out even our white loved ones, friends, allies for what they are not doing. But in the end, if we want to win for ALL of us on racial, economic, and social justice issues, we need multiple sets of tactics, working together. Some are disruptive tactics. Some are loving tactics. Some are truth-telling tactics. Some can only be taken on by white people. Some can only be taken on by people of color. Sometimes we need someone from the other strand to step in and hold us up. Other times, we have to step out and hold them up. Each of us has a different role to play but we all have to hold the collective space for movement building together. That's what I hope we all keep in mind and work on together. It's the only way we move forward.'