phantomemthoughts:

Friends, this is long, but I need you to hear me. Okay?

Take a good look at this picture. At first, you might think, “That’s great! Sessions IS a racist liar! I’m glad those ladies showed up to welcome him to our city!”

I have something to tell you: They only came for the picture. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE CIS-HET WHITE WOMEN IN THIS PICTURE LEFT WHEN THE GOING GOT TOUGH.

They flocked together, casting suspicious glares at our chants, slowly separating themselves. Then, as we were peacefully assembled on the stairs, one of our comrades was arrested. “Why?” we shouted. “Why?! Bring him back!” While behind us there were solicitous murmurs from the pussy hat club. “Good,” someone said. “He was too rowdy. They’re too loud.”

They left us. They didn’t want to lock arms with us. They wanted to get their FB picture and to tell their friends they are “hashtag resisting” while at the same time pushing the POC and LGBTQ folk in front of the police. They took their privilege and used it for nothing more than a contribution to their own oppression.

The cancer of white supremacy and the lie of “law and order” is so deeply ingrained in these so-called liberals that they can see a man get arrested (with their own eyes) for standing on a stair and still think it was somehow his fault.

The same police telling us not to stand on stairs (stairs that we paid for) are the same ones that threw their bikes at us a month ago and brutally arrested two trans women.

The police aren’t our friends and the liberal moderates are a part of the problem.

White friends (particularly those of you who espouse BLM and say we need change), cis-het friends, we need you. We need you engaged. We need you to stand up and stand with us, especially when the shit gets tough. If you’re afraid, you have to be brave. You can only be brave when you’re afraid.

We NEED to you to be brave.