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Link to tweet
An interview w/ Galya, who met
@VP
in West Haven, CT. She says she wants to tell the VP "Youre my best friend & I love you" & "I remember the vice president told me I can be anything I want."
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)racist and sexist barriers had been defeated (and they still haven't been defeated) and generations of children could have grown up with people in power and positions of authority and prestige who looked like them.
A country where Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are not the exception but two people in a long line of people, all kinds of people, who have held office or been held up as an exemplar in the fields of science and math, in all fields, open to all people.
All that untapped potential. All the greatness - lost to racism and sexism.
What could have been.
Even now, a lot of white people lost their minds at the thought of a black president. Some of those same people are still angry over it. People have gone nuts over Kamala Harris as V.P..
The kind of people who need those racist and sexist barriers to feel good about their own lives.
Sad, weak people. People who label the oppression of others as traditional values.
It is 2021 and a little girl, especially a young girl of color, can look at Kamala Harris and think, "I can be you." She can dream, "I can do it." She can think, "I can even be President."
2021.
Of course it makes me happy. Just nobody tell me how grateful I should feel until after hundreds of years of this being true. Until this is the norm and not the exception.
Until it's not even a thought because it is just so natural. Until it just is. Simply.
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)All true.
You made me cry...
Until it's not even a thought because it is just so natural. Until it just is. Simply.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)by the trial taking place.
I can only watch for a few minutes at a time.
The future will have its own set of struggles and worries. Just hoping some struggles and worries we can leave behind. As a country. As a global community. As people.
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)It was the truth and beauty of what you said that made me cry. Not sure any of it will happen in my lifetime, you never know though. It might.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)You make an excellent point regarding all the human potential lost because of the social barriers set up to keep back large swaths of people.
It reminds me of a point that I made to refute the oft-used argument of anti-abortion types. They like to say things like, "Who knows if that unborn child could have grown up to cure cancer?" I argue, "And who knows what all those children gunned down in mass shootings might have accomplished?"
And not only has so much human potential been wasted to racism and sexism, but the time and effort and even money spent in keeping down people who are supposedly "naturally" inferior in the first place just boggles the mind.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)All of it, really. To create a false reality they feel safe in - in a world that will never bend to their will. So they keep sacrificing lives and throwing away money to their fears, and we all pay dearly for it.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)momentum to change our country socially, politically, and economically. The Ex may be responsible for biggest change since FDR. Lets hope!
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,619 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)Thank you.
brer cat
(24,615 posts)K&R
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)electric_blue68
(14,946 posts)Oh, little sweetie 💖 I can imagine her voice, and Kamala's hidden smile crinkling her eyes.
And your beautiful post, Solly.
I, too, have wondered how much we've through decades, and centuries lost of people's talents, and wisdoms because of racism, and sexism. 😔
Someday it will be as easy as breathing usually is.