I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
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I'm not concerned about the undocumented immigrant with some parking and speeding tickets. I'm concerned about the American citizen with 34 felony convictions who is driving America right into a fucking ditch.
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The GI Bill sort of supercharged Jim Crow, didn't it? Meanwhile corporations were moving upwardly mobile white daddies here and there all around the country, uprooting families and depriving women of the kinship networks that made child-rearing a lot easier. Fortunately this helped spur the women's movement of the '60s and '70s. Meanwhile, in response to the civil rights movement of the '50s and early '60s -- and the barbaric response of southern whites to it -- we finally got the Civil Rights …
For anyone interested in further reading on this, I recommend Heather McGhee's THE SUM OF US: What Racism Costs All of Us and How We Can Prosper Together (2021). McGhee talks economics in a way that makes it accessible to non-economists (and people intimidated by economics <g>). Important book.
All of this. I’ve never been so ashamed of a sitting president in my entire 50 years living in America. He’s gotta go and we need better politicians. This shit is ridiculous.