Friday, June 19, 2020

Take your feet/knees off our knecks

Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously said: "I ask no favor for my sex.  All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks”  as she spoke to sexist men.


George Floyd famously said: "I can't breathe" as he was being killed by a racist cop.


That's all.  Get your sexist feet off the necks of the women that you cruelly dominate.


Get your racist knees off the necks of the blacks that you cruelly dominate. 


Trumpsters have a president that they elected and idolize that said to governors during the multiracial Black Lives Matter protests; "You have to dominate"


But, of course, having to dominate is actually the problem itself - dominate blacks, and browns, and reds, and yellows and women, and children and other countries, and everyone and everything that looks threatening to the fragile and precarious egos of white men, white supremacists, white authoritarians.


Leadership, not domination.  
Inspiration, not domination. 
Example, not domination. 
Character, not domination.
Integrity, not domination.
Honesty, not domination.
Responsibility, not domination.
Caring, not domination.
Empathy, not domination.
Understanding, not domination.
Humanity, not domination.
Love, not domination.