Editorials & Other Articles

As it has always been, division makes us easier to conquer. But, I totally get it. I don't blame them one iota.
In the words of John Trudell:

Now you want us
To cry your tears for you
After we’ve already bled for you
Already been dead to you
Now you want us
To cry your tears for you

Chapters of a democracy story
Descendants of genocide
Twelve score and more years ago
We went from being the majority
To being the smallest minority
Now you want us
To cry your tears for you....

This song keeps getting better. I recommend looking it up. He was a once in a millennium poet of pure wisdom gained from suffering under our Great American Values.
Black people have suffered enough and they still kept fighting. That's how I try to get through each day by remembering that black and brown and indigenous peoples have had it far worse than we will ever know. Now, it's our turn to see what it's like to fear your government and your neighbors. And I fully understand that, even now, they will suffer far more than we will.
America needs truth and reconciliation hearings to wake white people the fuck up.