If Not Now When?
We need to see more groups and individuals come together like this in continued solidarity as they did following Charlottesville to oppose all forms of white supremacy, white privilege and the politics borne of it. The Democratic Party/DNC is far from perfect but offers the electoral path forward IF there’s cohesion amongst all of us along the progressive spectrum to frankly see the forest for the trees.

40 years of Republican and conservative efforts to subvert democracy and the rule of law brought us to now…and it’s not a surprise revealed by Charlottesville. I find no difference between the Charlottesville murder/attempted murder horror and the Charleston church massacre. It’s just under Trump the white supremacists of all stripes are no longer afraid to act together in public.
Anyone who followed the unceasing seditious obstruction of the first Black Man in the Oval for 8 years — ending with the theft of the SCOTUS seat — saw this coming. Anyone who followed modern history saw this coming: Hitler was installed as German Chancellor Jan 30, 1933; by July 1933 the first laws stripping some Jews of their citizenship had been passed with more to come. John McCain opened Pandora’s box with his desperate selection of Palin. McConnell kept the lid more than cracked. Trump broke the damn lid off the hinges.
Creating solidarity is not about a kumbaya moment. Perhaps that’s what many folks felt with President Obama’s election in 2008…

…but if we rely only on the charisma of the man and not the message, we give up our own power to affect real change in our lives. Gil Scott-Heron said it best, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: (please watch this!)
What’s it gonna take to WTFU? I am forever saddened that these deaths were not enough:

So many of us came together for Heather Heyer and that was right and just:

But it means little if we go back to our daily lives and concerns and her death and those of our black brothers and sisters cease to compel us to continued action, cohesion and Solidarity. If not now when?
