Well, it’s been a week! Sitting in suspense for election week instead of election day felt like a year or so, lol. And then good news, we get a second chance. As I wrote on my facebook profile on Sunday:
Four years ago...
Four years ago we woke up (if we’d slept at all), grieving, angry, and some of us were disoriented. We came together in greater numbers than we had in a long time. Built coalitions across movements. And started to understand that none of us are free until all of us are free.
Some of us joined in the movement for the first time thinking it was mainly about getting Trump out of office. But it was never only about that. While problematic, Trump is not the deeper problem. He points to fundamental injustices codified at the very beginning of our nation and upheld over time by members of both parties to different degrees.
She’s made grand promises, this country of ours, of liberty and justice for all while standing on the stolen land and graves of an indigenous genocide, bui…
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