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kpete

(72,013 posts)
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 01:29 PM Feb 2018

Work woke: Watch Angela Ryes breathtaking stand against Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=50&v=uaS0GKV7H44

According to Rye, the actions of Trump are “past partisanship.”

“Understand that this is a matter of survival,” she insisted. “I’m not here to debate the odious. Trump and his supporters — racism, xenophobia — the many way in which they otherize us, including a strong desire to take us back to when America was allegedly it’s greatest in the 1950s.”

“No, my challenge is for you,” she continued. “What will you stand up for? When is it too much, when is it too far. We’ve seen enough. We know enough. And we’ve had enough. But when will we do enough?”

“Your silence, your lack of action is an endorsement of this hatred fueling violence,” Rye stated. “How are you going to allow someone to say we don’t belong on the soil of the very country we built? This is not about them. It’s about us. What will it take for you to stand up, to show up, to fight, to force constructive change?”

She concluded: “We have the tools, we are equipped. Will you join us? … We must mobilize in our communities to ensure our present reality doesn’t become our permanent future. It’s time to not just stay woke, but to work woke."




https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/work-woke-watch-angela-ryes-breathtaking-stand-trump-white-people-watch-twice/
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Work woke: Watch Angela Ryes breathtaking stand against Trump (Original Post) kpete Feb 2018 OP
I saw the whole panel discussion yesterday after Waters SOTU . There were many inspiring parts lunasun Feb 2018 #1
Take us back to the 1950s? We should be do lucky Vogon_Glory Feb 2018 #2

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. I saw the whole panel discussion yesterday after Waters SOTU . There were many inspiring parts
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 01:42 PM
Feb 2018

But this collage of trump over the last 18 months & closing statement is for everyone if you can stomach it .
Here is one of the inspiring groups featured on the panel .
If you see the whole 1 hour you will see hope
http://newgeorgiaproject.org
Oh they take donations 501c I believe
And David duke I see why you are only wanting white people supremacy in the US
you are supremely white dude ghostly

Vogon_Glory

(9,127 posts)
2. Take us back to the 1950s? We should be do lucky
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 01:51 PM
Feb 2018

No, Thump and the Rethugs would take us back to the 1920’s, a time when half of America was middle class and above, but half was in poverty, segregation was codified into law, immigration law favored white Europeans, business regulation was minimal, and the social safety net didn’t exist.

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