Your sentiments reflect all of ours who spent 102 days hoping. I feel so defensive now, as though I will never allow myself to hope again. But I know that people like this author will lead us back into the fray. Thank you,
Resilience is what has made African Americans who we are today. From surviving slavery and segregation to the current attacks by the establishment on us (and all Americans, they're just waking up to that reality) we will keep striving to make this a more perfect union for all of us.
Thousands of us in CA were (almost) as devastated over Kamala’s loss, as were Howard students. I, as a woman of 87, have come to believe that the U.S. just isn’t yet ready for a woman president, certainly not a bi-racial one, nor a man who is anything other than Christian, Caucasian, & straight. I won’t live to see the revival of our country after Trump, but I’m “cautiously hopeful” for my grandchildren. We of like mind can only persist & resist, but agree that the pace of change is glacial.
“We come from people who changed the world, so why shouldn’t we expect to do the same?”
Didn’t all people come from people who changed the world? What people come from people who did not change the world? What people come from people who are not now changing the world? Really. Will we ever learn to let go reflexive, thoughtless otherism, and accept that all people changed the world and will continue to do so?
Those who have been long and fiercely 'othered', often to death, definitely deserve to celebrate their heritage, especially in the face of the violence done to them in the past AND in the present. They are not somehow perpetuating 'otherism' by doing so, nor do they need anyone's judgement or permission to continue.
“We come from people who changed the world, so why shouldn’t we expect to do the same?” Love it. Go Howard!
Excellent writing, Daryn.
Your sentiments reflect all of ours who spent 102 days hoping. I feel so defensive now, as though I will never allow myself to hope again. But I know that people like this author will lead us back into the fray. Thank you,
All the more important that MacKenzie Scott endowed Howard University and other HBCUs with large donations.
Great article, Daryn... thank you, and the very best to you in life going forward. You sound like a brilliant young woman, and a skilled writer.
I hope MacKenzie Scott's recent donation to Howard helps to uplift everyone there.
Resilience is what has made African Americans who we are today. From surviving slavery and segregation to the current attacks by the establishment on us (and all Americans, they're just waking up to that reality) we will keep striving to make this a more perfect union for all of us.
Thousands of us in CA were (almost) as devastated over Kamala’s loss, as were Howard students. I, as a woman of 87, have come to believe that the U.S. just isn’t yet ready for a woman president, certainly not a bi-racial one, nor a man who is anything other than Christian, Caucasian, & straight. I won’t live to see the revival of our country after Trump, but I’m “cautiously hopeful” for my grandchildren. We of like mind can only persist & resist, but agree that the pace of change is glacial.
“We come from people who changed the world, so why shouldn’t we expect to do the same?”
Didn’t all people come from people who changed the world? What people come from people who did not change the world? What people come from people who are not now changing the world? Really. Will we ever learn to let go reflexive, thoughtless otherism, and accept that all people changed the world and will continue to do so?
Those who have been long and fiercely 'othered', often to death, definitely deserve to celebrate their heritage, especially in the face of the violence done to them in the past AND in the present. They are not somehow perpetuating 'otherism' by doing so, nor do they need anyone's judgement or permission to continue.