Yup ... and are you willing to risk your life to change these things? Even as Abraham Lincoln tried to change such things, there were bloody riots in the streets of New York City. I hope not, but that is what it may come down to. When the stakes are raised by movement conservatives, will we fold our cards and retreat into academia and sympathetic media?
Yup ... and are you willing to risk your life to change these things? Even as Abraham Lincoln tried to change such things, there were bloody riots in the streets of New York City. I hope not, but that is what it may come down to. When the stakes are raised by movement conservatives, will we fold our cards and retreat into academia and sympathetic media?
This is why Black Lives Matter was successful in taking to the streets. Blacks have 400 years of experience with white Americans, the get up and do it again, knowing their lives have always been at risk, that there will never be peace and prosperity with white supremacists getting away with murder. Young white Americans see older white Americans giving away the planet, allowing white terror and inviting vigilante injustice. Let's support them with all we have.
"All we have" describes what the three 'Freedom Riders' who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gave up. Will today's young white Americans go that far?
Three were shot, two were killed, at a police violence protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin by 17 year old white supremacist sympathizer Rittenhouse. Heather Heyer was run down by a white supremacist in Charlottesville. It seems its happening now. They were all white. We seem to overlook what's happening today, the sacrifices made, the perseverance of current freedom workers in praise of what happened in the past. What has always been missing is the moral conviction of the many when that position could have stood against the violent oppression by the few.
Rittenhouse was not the only white man with an assault rifle there. He's just the sole teenager with the immature brain who pulled his trigger. There were many more roaming the streets. The intimidation factor should not be ignored.
I don't know about today's white young Americans would do. I DO know what a white Keene NH seminarian student doing civil rights work in 1965 did. He gave his life to protect Ruby Sales, a teenage Black girl in Alabama. His name was Jonathan Daniels and a shotgun-wielding special county deputy murdered him. (Of course he was acquitted of manslaughter by an all white male jury,) In 1991, the Episcopal Church designated Jonathan Myrick Daniels as a martyr. Jonathan is a hometown hero hero for us in the Keene NH area. Ruby went on to attend Episcopal Theological School and works as a human rights advocate in Washington, DC, and founded an inner-city mission dedicated to Daniels.
Yup ... and are you willing to risk your life to change these things? Even as Abraham Lincoln tried to change such things, there were bloody riots in the streets of New York City. I hope not, but that is what it may come down to. When the stakes are raised by movement conservatives, will we fold our cards and retreat into academia and sympathetic media?
This is why Black Lives Matter was successful in taking to the streets. Blacks have 400 years of experience with white Americans, the get up and do it again, knowing their lives have always been at risk, that there will never be peace and prosperity with white supremacists getting away with murder. Young white Americans see older white Americans giving away the planet, allowing white terror and inviting vigilante injustice. Let's support them with all we have.
I am heartened to see Black Lives back on the table today. Thanks, David (and Jack)
"All we have" describes what the three 'Freedom Riders' who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gave up. Will today's young white Americans go that far?
Three were shot, two were killed, at a police violence protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin by 17 year old white supremacist sympathizer Rittenhouse. Heather Heyer was run down by a white supremacist in Charlottesville. It seems its happening now. They were all white. We seem to overlook what's happening today, the sacrifices made, the perseverance of current freedom workers in praise of what happened in the past. What has always been missing is the moral conviction of the many when that position could have stood against the violent oppression by the few.
Rittenhouse was not the only white man with an assault rifle there. He's just the sole teenager with the immature brain who pulled his trigger. There were many more roaming the streets. The intimidation factor should not be ignored.
Bless you David. IтАЩm very grateful for your words and perspective. тЭдя╕П
I'm in. So how do we direct/push our moral conviction?
I don't know about today's white young Americans would do. I DO know what a white Keene NH seminarian student doing civil rights work in 1965 did. He gave his life to protect Ruby Sales, a teenage Black girl in Alabama. His name was Jonathan Daniels and a shotgun-wielding special county deputy murdered him. (Of course he was acquitted of manslaughter by an all white male jury,) In 1991, the Episcopal Church designated Jonathan Myrick Daniels as a martyr. Jonathan is a hometown hero hero for us in the Keene NH area. Ruby went on to attend Episcopal Theological School and works as a human rights advocate in Washington, DC, and founded an inner-city mission dedicated to Daniels.