Thread by @mel_thegreat

I'm feeling some kind of way so you're getting a thread. Sorry. lol

Even before this article dropped (buzzfeednews.com/article/scaach…), I was feeling some kind of way about Lauren Duca and many, many people like her.

Ex: People who are all for Pete Buttigieg. Specifically, white women

This is a huge thing in my thoughts especially with impeachment on the horizon.

I've seen so many people relieved that the nightmare of this admin might finally be over.

Which, I get. This man should have never been president. He's laid waste to so much of our democracy.

But this idea that we will somehow be okay if he's gone is just...

Who will be free? Who benefits immediately and directly with him out of office? Will everything wrong with America suddenly be okay?

Sure. For some. And it's the people who only freaked out once he was president

It's the people who somehow lost all faith in government Nov. 9th.

The folks who didn't speak up until then. The folks who felt *now* politics had a say in their life.

And a lot of them were white women. That's just a fact.

Every other minority could see the writing on the wall well before. We'd been living it under every single president.

This can't be stated more plainly than the first, literally, 30 seconds into Lauren Duca's interview with the Breakfast Club.

"I actually woke up the day after the election and was smacked in the face with kind of the reality of, with a sense of needing to have a personal sense of personal agency."

"Like I thought that I cared before about this big issue of equality, but I didn't understand that I was just thinking of democracy as some abstract achievement."

Democracy, being able to live as a US citizen from day to day, without dying or being jailed or being harmed by the government was an "abstract achievement."

*stares into camera*

I'm going to be honest, a big part of my anger is that it took Nov. 9th, 2016 for people like her to finally care. They finally had some skin in the game to lose.

Some folks will see that as unfair. Everyone should have the room and ability to grow.

Humans, myself included because I am not an all-knowing so very woke being. There is a lot for me to unpack.

Yet, I won't say for the marginalized people I am still failing shouldn't, can't condemn me for not fully realizing their humanity.

But that's not the full problem.

The problem is people like this are already showing they are more than willing to go back to factory settings once Drumpf is out of office.

They will go back to before when they didn't have skin in the game because their skin will be saved.

This is why I mentioned Pete in that first tweet.

How many times have we heard "Believe Black women?" Or some variation of this.

Yet, even now folks are not believing Black women when they say Pete is a problem.

Just look at Kavanaugh. Too many of the same women, white women, were more than willing go to the mattresses for him.

Every single poll you look at, it's not WOC, especially Black women who are putting their confidence in people with factory setting (pre-Drumpf) policies.

I get the relief. I really, really do.

But Drumpf was never the problem. He was a symptom that led to the inevitable.

Bc so many believed they didn't have skin in the game, it was bad but not *that* bad.

It was wrong and not right Black men and women were being killed or jailed in inappropriate numbers.

That people with disabilities were ignored to the point where they couldn't do simple things like entering a building.

That rape victims had no path to easy justice.

That some parts of our country is so gerrymandered that even if the population was heavily democrat, a republican would take the win.

Or voting suppression.

Or being torn from their families.

On and on and one.

If you think we are done fighting because the big bad might be getting booted from office, you are no better than you were before Nov. 9th.

You have once again used the bodies, the energy, the fight of the truly marginalized to be safe in your whiteness once again.

America before Drumpf was not safe. It won't be once he's gone as long as people like Duca believe and/or focus on just this admin.

Us on the margins can see you. Just remember all of us ain't free if one of us ain't free.

If you appreciate the emotional labor of this thread, consider buying me a ko-fi: ko-fi.com/melissab

OR just JFC recognize and acknowledge the fight is nowhere near over.