A long read, but nevertheless an excellent one. If you have the time I highly encourage you to give this a gander.
A long read, but nevertheless an excellent one. If you have the time I highly encourage you to give this a gander.
via Sarah Rios
Originally shared by Andy Dillon
I've known this all along. Obama is a better person than I am. He's a better person than most. And if you didn't know it already, you may, after reading this entire article. I will endeavor to repeatedly repeat his message to myself, in the hope that it will have a beneficial outcome when I speak to the Trump voters that surround me.
“Societies and cultures are really complicated. . . . This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop. . . . You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency
via Sarah Rios
Originally shared by Andy Dillon
I've known this all along. Obama is a better person than I am. He's a better person than most. And if you didn't know it already, you may, after reading this entire article. I will endeavor to repeatedly repeat his message to myself, in the hope that it will have a beneficial outcome when I speak to the Trump voters that surround me.
“Societies and cultures are really complicated. . . . This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop. . . . You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency
Comments
Petty panty waste.
Don't you have some jack boots to be polishing?
Yet you worship a Putin Cumgutter Commie.
And I hate America?
He is just silly.