This short antiracism video from the UK answers the question, "Yeh, but what can one person do?" with a list of five things anyone can do to face down public hate speech by standing with a targeted person.
Border Wall
“Officer, my daughter is 10 years old," I say.
“Yes, ma’am.”
And I’m 56…” I say … “I haven’t had … I haven’t been fertile for … years.”
“I understand, ma’am … and you understand I’m not allowed to take your word for that.”
“About which?” I say….
“Either,” they say. “It’s a requirement ... I think you know that…”
“10 years old, officer…”
“Yes ma’am … Is this gonna a problem? Do you want to pull out of line so we can process the motorists behind you?”
“I want my child to see her grandmother before she dies.”
“Understood,” the officer says … “The shortest route to that is both of you taking the test.”
“I’m 56 … she’s 10….”
“Understood,” the officer says, and, “Do you want pull out of line?”
“No … I … How does this work?”
“You may use your own kit if I watch you open it —“
“You’re going to watch me?”
“I have to watch you open the kit — if you use your own — so I can scan the number before you enter the testing area.”
“I don’t believe this,” I say … “I’m fif — this is not the country I grew up in….”
“If you prefer, I’ll provide kits and charge your debit or credit card.”
“What if I don’t have a card?”
“There’s a turnout ahead, so you can return the way you came.”
“Well, we don’t have ‘kits’ do we … why would we?”
“Two kits, then, ma’am. Pick any lane ahead and enter the test area … Entering the test area constitutes your permission to be observed via infrared camera. Follow the instructions on the kit. After placing your samples in the reader, pull forward to the holding area until your number comes up — either Green or Red — then follow the signs. Do you understand?”
“Yes … I — do you? … officer? understand?”
“Ma’am … It’s your right to use the turnout lane and go back the way you came.”
“This is law enforcement now? Seriously?”
“Serious as a pregnancy test, ma’am.”
I realize my daughter has been pulling at my sleeve. "Can we just go back?" she whispers.
"Baby, I don’t know," I say … "I don’t know if it’s that simple."
Hey man, if we can’t vote for Harris, maybe we should just stay home.
“This is who fathers, with daughters, are voting for.”
“When your father who has 6
daughters and 4 granddaughters who is also a men's pastor is voting for this man again. It's honestly a
slap in our face.”
https://www.dailydot.com/memes/trump-hollywood-access-tiktok-reactions/
Alexander Hamilton to President Washington . 18 August 1792
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true [mechanics*] of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”
* Hamilton used the word Artificers here, a British military term for a skilled mechanic.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002, from The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 12, July 1792 – October 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, pp. 229–258. [h/t Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow in the Washington Post Outlook . October 18, 2019]
I’m thinking tonight of friends with hispanic surnames, after listening to a former government appointee loudly promising on TV that he means to return to government to facilitate the largest deportation in US history, starting asap after January 20, 2025.
And who do they mean to deport? It would begin with (*will* begin with, if they think they can get away with it) good Americans I know with family names like Acosta … Aguilar … Cano … Carranza … Cisneros … Contreras … Delgado …Del Rio … Diaz … Duran … Elias … Escalante … Esperanza … Guzman … Hinojosa … Leys … Llama … Lopez … Mejia … Montalvo … Montoya … Morales … Nava … Navarro … Ramos … Reyes … Rodriquez … Sanchez … Santos — and more whose names sound like they *could* fit the bill.
And I’m thinking, If I want to stop government agents from coming for these friends and their children next year, asking about their associates and extended family, and demanding to see their papers, and investigating them, or taking them away for processing if they’re not satisfied with the papers they produce — I’m thinking what should I be doing *this* year – in *the next three weeks* — to keep that from happening….
Donald Trump‘s only tool is a hammer. So, to him, every problem looks like a nail.
Thus, Donald Trump may support the Project 2025 proposal to commercialize vital National Weather Service forecasting…
But AccuWeather explicitly does not.
A colleague asked how I talk to young voters about this election.
Mostly, I’m trying to center questions like:
Given that you won't find perfection in any person or party, on the evidence...
and so on….
How do *you* talk to young voters about this election?
Apparently, the Fox News Channel did not air the speeches of Republicans who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
Here’s Georgia’s former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan speaking to the nation at the Democratic National Convention, August 21, 2024.
Read it yourself . Michelle Obama’s remarkable address to the nation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago . August 21 2024
https://time.com/7013289/michelle-obama-2024-dnc-speech-full-transcript/
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