Thank you Denice Williams for posting "Why Are We Here?
A Dispatch from the Nadir," great analysis and prescription from Sherrilyn Ifill, attorney, author, and professor, former Executive Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.:
"Now we must plan and regroup. As Black people, we will have particular conversations and strategies we must employ to ensure our survival in this country – a 400-year project that remains perilous. We will fight and we will survive.
If this is the nadir, then it is planting time. Building our own institutions, theories and strategies, making art and seeding ideas that can be carried forward in the coming years. Yes, the harvest will come. But for now, we plant.
For white people who reject white supremacist ideology and believe in democracy, for Asian Americans, Muslim-Americans, Native Americans and for Latinos (a majority of whom voted against their own interests - a feature of white supremacy), for members of the LGBTQ community - this will be incredibly difficult for you as well. I encourage you to determine now that you will not acquiesce, and think about how to preserve and protect your own integrity, safety and communities.
We will all work together across race and class and religion I believe, in this effort. Perhaps not this week. But we will. In the coming weeks I encourage all of us to reach out across race, sex, religion, and send a text or note to those friends, colleagues and acquaintances who you know stand on the side of, decency, democracy and equality. Hold onto those bonds. They want to see those bonds broken most of all.
Most importantly we must resolve that we will not acquiesce in our commitment to protecting our dignity, our dreams, our families, and our future. We will need to fight. Not every battle, but enough of them that we have a platform on which to build."
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6moThis is great! Is there anywhere on line for us to see you ellaborating it ?