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Friday, February 17, 2017

Resisters - We Must Multi-task

I understand the logic behind the current #resist narrative that we should all immediately drop all other causes and focus exclusively on the trump/Russia angle as the best and fastest way to end this nightmare of a presidency.
However, people are being harmed right now by this administration and the bigotry it enables. We must not turn a blind eye or rationalize "We'll fix that later" to these real and present dangers.
America has a shameful history of putting off until "later" the needs of vulnerable populations in order to focus national attention on some grander, broader good. Cases in point: the slavery issue in the Continental Congress and African-American women in the suffragette movement. In both instances, African-Americans were told their needs would have to wait until the nation was formed or until white women got the vote.
Let's not repeat that sin. We can and must impeach and end this toxic presidency AND mitigate/stop its immediate and ongoing harm to our most vulnerable populations.
"Later" is too late for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Latinos under threat of mass deportation.
"Later" is too late for African-Americans facing violent racism utterly unprotected by the new attorney general Jefferson B. Sessions, deemed "too racist" in the 1980s for a federal judgeship but inexplicably confirmable now.
"Later" is too late for women and girls lacking affordable access to basic reproductive healthcare.
"Later" is too late for our Jewish and Muslim neighbors whose bodies and places of worship are daily being attacked by haters emboldened by the current administration.
"Later" is too late for the disabled, particularly those with "invisible" disabilities such as heart or mental/emotional issues as the current administration appears to believe a disability is not "real" unless it can be seen.
"Later" is too late for foreign or foreign born scholars, technicians, scientists, and laborers who cannot gain entry to this country to fulfill crucial professional roles in our nation.
"Later" is too late for the indigenous peoples trying to protect their sacred land and the natural resources crucial to all of our environmental survival.
Yes, "later" is too late.
We have to multi-task. We must insist loudly and persistently that the Congress do its job. Launch an immediate, full, independent investigation into 45's relations with the Russian government during the presidential campaign, throughout the transition, and in these early weeks of new administration. Meanwhile we must hold ourselves and one another accountable for sheltering and defending those around us at greatest risk of deportation and hate crimes. This multiple-front battle will be exhausting but we can all rest, you guessed it, later.

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