watching people suddenly talk about wanting to leave the country makes me nostalgic for literally any conversation i've ever had with any person of color ever
Same. But also, why should we have to give up our country for them? It’s our country too, and it always will be, no matter how much they don’t like us.
The US may be falling behind in civil rights and other matters, but it is still far ahead of a lot of countries.
There are also still countless heavy labor jobs available.
It's no wonder people want to have a better life here.
i think wanting to have a better life here has a lot to do with refusing to give up and let horrible people win, but tbh some of us got dragged here against our own will and would very much like to leave, for very clear reasons. the US is not the bastion of civil rights that it pretends to be.
During BLM marches, I spent a lot of time trying to educate my family & community as to what we owe to Civil Rights. Many SA Am’s also don’t realize how the term “model minority” is racist & a tool of discord used to benefit white supremacy. We have to stand up & stand together. It’s the only way.
We're as white as can be (except my Japanese-American wife) and were hillbillies before 1776. It's not "our country" in an ownership sense but truly we are from nowhere else. It's our job to fix it.
Anyone who blithely speaks of leaving the country depending on Trump's election is abandoning the poor, the sick, the old, the unjustly imprisoned, the migrant worker, the single mothers....all those who can't simply move to X if the odor of the Trumps so offends them.
And most don't have any idea of how hard it is to just immigrate to another country. Do they speak the language fluently or have a job offer in that country as well as the money to do an international move? It's all vibes.
