I’m thinking one way white people could show our gratitude is, we could all stop being the reason we came so close to (at least) four more years of total fascism.
https://twitter.com/rbreich/status/1347305819528777731
No knock on giving credit where it’s due. I just need to hear the logic expressed in the other direction too. Vote like black women, yeah, but also, don’t vote like white guys because that demographic has an affinity for fascist con artists.
We can’t use our displays of gratitude to let ourselves off the hook from explicitly holding ourselves and the white people around us accountable.
I appreciate positive framing. “Vote like black women” is definitely a friendlier thing to say than “don’t vote like white guys”. More polite. Friendly and polite are great, until they get in the way of acknowledging that the problem is us.
There’s no path to real, lasting democracy that doesn’t involve a lot of white people having a lot of conversations that make us squirm. We’ve been living in denial. Leaving it isn’t fun. But like @DrIbram said, this is a system that runs on denial.
Bringing it back to his attempted coup... every single one of Trump’s political crimes has been committed with help from “respectable” establishment figures. They need to be held accountable too. Or they’ve got no reason not to help out the next Trumps.
We need to hold to account every responsible party. The Electoral College, Fox News, the NRA, the white church, Chuck Todd, my MAGA neighbors, my dirtbag left neighbors, my own sideline-sitting ass…
I’m not equating my culpability with Trump’s. But that’s kind of the point. The problem isn’t just Trump, it’s the people and the system that empowered him.
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