Nonviolence is neither ignorable, risk free, bloodless, nor a comfort to those it protests. MSP's movement is proof; it is winning, and it is providing a model that has built on rapid-response nonviolent resistance and community-building across the country.

"America was always evil" is a logical and rhetorical dead end. it concedes everything to our opponents. it allows them to take the mantle of our nation - and let's be frank here, most Americans want to believe in America.

our history is the Trail of Tears, yes. it is also the March for Freedom.

we built monuments to MLK and buried our honored dead on a traitor's plantation.

we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.

our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them.