I have always told my white students that they can acknowledge the harm that white supremacy has done, and choose to repair that harm, but I've advised them not to stay there.

You do have some fierce AF ancestors, too. It's just that we don't learn about them or what we learn is lies *on purpose.*

Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.

We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*

Dig it.

Where are you hearing such profundities?

I do share your critique of the immanent and/or transcendental.

If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.

Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.

The brute fact is that force is not on our side so leaning into declaring any restraining principle as fake and its just all what power declares is a path into even greater hell. The middle path is pointing to the legal constraints and saying why the constraints **in this specific case** are good.

A look of hope from the depressive position.

I share your intuitive diagnosis of the world. Such childhood myths often do have a dark tinge that are meant to prepare us for future realities. I hope the prognosis of this tale is safety and comfort in Santa’s bag and wonders at the destination.