December 39, 2020
On Wednesday January 6th after working 10 hours on the Georgia Senate Run offs...I watched in horror and anger as folx from a pro-45 rally marched to the U.S. Capitol to "protest" the election.
I made the following post:
The police and military responded to peaceful protests with gas grenades, rubber bullets, and helicopters flying low enough to blow out the windows in buildings.
I was gassed in Atlanta, multiple times.
When people say they don't understand "white privilege", what's happening today in my hometown of Washington, DC is a GLARING example.
Today, we have a violent protest where they are literally storming the Capitol building and shoving police out of their way, and the cops are are just forming a line to push them back, then retreating when they push through that line.
You're waving the "thin blue line" flag while assaulting the police.
I never thought I'd be watching an actual coup attempt in real time in America. This is insane.
Fuck. You.
which was shared by several friends. On one friend's page, her dad(?) took it upon himself to not only downplay what happened, attack her and her mother but also to trivialize my post by calling it a meme.
The blows just keep coming. Every day is so challenging. My brain is exhausted. I want to see the light in this dark tunnel and yet it feels like it will never come.
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