So beautiful. Thank you. I alternate between deep sadness and red-hot fury. If I zoom myself out, I feel grief for humans. If I am back on the ground, it’s anger. I can’t forgive the slowly-waking people just now feeling a titch of concern, because that very delay shows a horrific lack of compassion .
As a cis white woman with well-educated privilege, I am still annoyed at people who are "just now worried". Where the HELL have they been since ... like, ever, but particularly since 2016??!!
We can't have real progress if we leave anyone behind, and too often progressives have been happy to have progress for themselves while leaving others to fend for themselves as best they can. In the UK that goes at least as far back as propertied women getting the vote before the rest of British women along side closed shop unions that didn't admit white women let alone POC whatever their sex. Today we are still leaving behind POC, trans people, anyone with a disability and our Government is set on making it worse for all those and more while calling themselves Labour. Our problems aren't as severe as yours yet, but we so often follow you and with this 'Labour' Government failing to provide a real alternative to the Tories, failing to grasp that there are more centre left and left votes to be won that right wing ones I am sure it won't be long. We even have a group of millionaires campaigning to be taxed more, complete with buses and ad vans touring the country, but it seems while the Government has cheerfully broken other manifesto promises it is adamant it will not increase taxes on the rich.
I could go on at length, but I see you, I am where you were but with no real hope we won't follow you down, and I struggle not to hate those actively pulling us all down as well as those who 'don't see the harm'. My mind knows we can't leave them behind either, my heart just wants vengance.
No. I'm referencing the MOVE house bombing which was 40 years ago, but resulted in many law suits. I was reminded of the bombing a month or so ago bc the city finally settled the last or one of the last of those suits.
As far as I know, there have been no aerial bombings of USians inside the continental US except for the police dropping that firebomb on MOVE and in the 1920s in places like Greenwood where white people rioted and tried to destroy whole Black neighborhoods primitive bi-planes were sometimes used to fly slowly over the Black people they wanted to kill and throw Molotov cocktails.
This is not to negate 9/11, of course. That has a lot in common with a bombing, but he planes were used as the bombs so no one was dropping anything out of aircraft onto the Towers or whatever.
The point is that for as long as aerial bombing has existed, as far as that particular form of attack goes, white Americans have been entirely immune and Black Americans have been the exclusive targets. I mean, sure you could have racism without dropping fire from planes and helicopters, and you can drop fire from planes and helicopters without racism, but it sure is a weird little bit of history that inside the continental US that specific attack form has been exclusively a racist one.
Understood, I just wasn't old enough to have specific memory of that when it happened, though I lived in West Philly for several years and I did see a number of remembrances during that time. I guess I'm just a bit too foggy these days to have put it all together. Thanks.
Not a problem at all. I don't particularly assume that people remember the MOVE bombing. It was completely insane and yet the news just memory holed it. It should be remembered next to Kent State but it doesn't get anywhere near that kind of attention. Nor does the Jackson State College massacre, btw, and for the same reason.
So beautiful. Thank you. I alternate between deep sadness and red-hot fury. If I zoom myself out, I feel grief for humans. If I am back on the ground, it’s anger. I can’t forgive the slowly-waking people just now feeling a titch of concern, because that very delay shows a horrific lack of compassion .
As a cis white woman with well-educated privilege, I am still annoyed at people who are "just now worried". Where the HELL have they been since ... like, ever, but particularly since 2016??!!
Got your back, sis.
We can't have real progress if we leave anyone behind, and too often progressives have been happy to have progress for themselves while leaving others to fend for themselves as best they can. In the UK that goes at least as far back as propertied women getting the vote before the rest of British women along side closed shop unions that didn't admit white women let alone POC whatever their sex. Today we are still leaving behind POC, trans people, anyone with a disability and our Government is set on making it worse for all those and more while calling themselves Labour. Our problems aren't as severe as yours yet, but we so often follow you and with this 'Labour' Government failing to provide a real alternative to the Tories, failing to grasp that there are more centre left and left votes to be won that right wing ones I am sure it won't be long. We even have a group of millionaires campaigning to be taxed more, complete with buses and ad vans touring the country, but it seems while the Government has cheerfully broken other manifesto promises it is adamant it will not increase taxes on the rich.
I could go on at length, but I see you, I am where you were but with no real hope we won't follow you down, and I struggle not to hate those actively pulling us all down as well as those who 'don't see the harm'. My mind knows we can't leave them behind either, my heart just wants vengance.
Philadelphians in particular? Did I miss something in my city this week?
No. I'm referencing the MOVE house bombing which was 40 years ago, but resulted in many law suits. I was reminded of the bombing a month or so ago bc the city finally settled the last or one of the last of those suits.
As far as I know, there have been no aerial bombings of USians inside the continental US except for the police dropping that firebomb on MOVE and in the 1920s in places like Greenwood where white people rioted and tried to destroy whole Black neighborhoods primitive bi-planes were sometimes used to fly slowly over the Black people they wanted to kill and throw Molotov cocktails.
This is not to negate 9/11, of course. That has a lot in common with a bombing, but he planes were used as the bombs so no one was dropping anything out of aircraft onto the Towers or whatever.
The point is that for as long as aerial bombing has existed, as far as that particular form of attack goes, white Americans have been entirely immune and Black Americans have been the exclusive targets. I mean, sure you could have racism without dropping fire from planes and helicopters, and you can drop fire from planes and helicopters without racism, but it sure is a weird little bit of history that inside the continental US that specific attack form has been exclusively a racist one.
Understood, I just wasn't old enough to have specific memory of that when it happened, though I lived in West Philly for several years and I did see a number of remembrances during that time. I guess I'm just a bit too foggy these days to have put it all together. Thanks.
Not a problem at all. I don't particularly assume that people remember the MOVE bombing. It was completely insane and yet the news just memory holed it. It should be remembered next to Kent State but it doesn't get anywhere near that kind of attention. Nor does the Jackson State College massacre, btw, and for the same reason.
I'm old enough to have already been married for a few years then!
Back when we still had something in spitting distance of actual journalism.