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Stephan David Hewitt's avatar

Thank you Deena for writing the words that embolden us to stand. Together.

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Teru Kanazawa's avatar

That this is a repeat of my family’s WW 2 exp except on a grotesque scale teaches me ironically to not fall victim to lies and to know precisely what the lies and distortions are and how they emerge. It helps in anticipating what’s going to happen next. Yes it’s a showing up in any way individually it suits us as displayed in the creativity of the streets here where I live which is not far from the action. There’s a lot of singing of Stand by me, dancing, drumming, artwork graffiti, all spontaneously erupting. And there are some who decry the lack of leaders of the stature of mostly Black leaders of years ago but it’s harder to decapitate the diverse threads that makes us stronger. I see POC getting bolder and smarter and many 20 year olds like on YouTube are so sophisticated and actually make me believe that everything my generation did is not for nothing but actually has helped them to multiply. They are the children of the generation that came of age on 9/11. Trump and Co are incapable of truly leading, let alone rule, anyone. Their hatred of the POC is who they are and I like to believe that the energy of Lamar and his incredible stand - in They not like us, that enables us to disconnect from ideology that runs counter in any way to who we are. The right has no idea what they’re giving birth to.

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