TCR Brief: We Are The Folks The “You Will Not Replace Us” People Are Afraid Of
We went to watch the eclipse in the Bronx, New York for some reason. At a place where everybody seemed to gather from Orthodox Jews to women in hijabs.
All sharing theories about the best way to look at the sun, and contraptions, none of which really worked. But we all had a lot of fun with it.
No one was proselytizing. No one was trying to impose Sharia law. Or attempting to replace anyone’s heritage.
We didn’t have viewing glasses; a couple of older women enthusiastically shared theirs with us, didn’t deny them to us because we’d benefited from privilege all our lives and now it was their turn… In other words, it was a great time.
Folks, this is what America will look like inevitably. And it’s a good thing. A very good thing. Hanging on to the past for as long as you possibly can is understandable to some extent, so if that’s how you feel, go ahead and do it: unless and until you start standing, violently, hatefully, in everybody else’s way. We and they and even you have as much of a right to be here as anybody else.
And anyway, as former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold points out in this recent Op-Ed, if you’re a White Nationalist, Congress is already doing a lot of your work for you. No matter how harshly they verbally condemn White Supremacists, members of Congress are the ones pushing voter suppression, gerrymandering to ensure predominantly white districts, curtailing legal immigration, and lots of other things.
But really, there’s nothing to be afraid of. No one is here to do you harm, we all just want to live our own lives, as best we can, in freedom. This great nation was based on dreams, not on fear.

(This story originally appeared in “The Chaos Report” Newsletter. Please subscribe at https://thechaosreport.com/subscribe/?scr=Medium)

