when arnold schwarzenegger’s message brings you to tears

“The events of Kristall­nacht teach a valu­able les­son. They show that a mod­ern so­ci­ety can be­come numbed to the fate of its mi­nori­ties … Eth­nic cleans­ing and geno­cide can hap­pen when a com­mu­ni­ty of mu­tu­al ac­cep­tance has been de­stroyed. It re­quires only a sys­tem­at­ic pro­gram of de­tach­ment and dis­tan­ti­a­tion, a process that so­ci­ol­o­gist Zyg­munt Bau­man has de­fined as the ‘so­cial pro­duc­tion of in­dif­fer­ence.’”
—Ale­jan­dro Baer, Min­neapo­lis Star­Tri­bune

“We need to hold ac­count­able the peo­ple that brought us to this un­for­giv­able point. And we need to look past our­selves, our par­ties and dis­agree­ments, and put our democ­ra­cy first.”
—Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger

The events of last week have been dev­as­tat­ing.

The ele­phant in the room now has ze­bra stripes, a wig and is wear­ing a tutu. And it can no longer be ig­nored.

The evil con­nect­ed to the un­ruly and di­vi­sive lega­cy of Amer­i­ca is now laid bare for all the world to see. What we do, or in many cas­es, don’t do now will de­fine us in the years and decades to come.

Our al­lies are wor­ried and our en­e­mies ac­tive­ly seek ways to cause greater harm to a na­tion that is ob­vi­ous­ly frag­ile and weak.

Still, there are many that are not or those who haven’t re­al­ly en­gaged in pol­i­tics – specif­i­cal­ly with­in the last 5 years – that still fail to see. The dam­age on Jan­u­ary 6 has caused great harm and we’re left with what it tru­ly means for all of us mov­ing for­ward.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Day of Bro­ken Glass” video is worth the watch. It’s im­por­tant.

If you have family/friends who are still fol­low­ing 45, please show this to them. Maybe it will help:

My mes­sage to my fel­low Amer­i­cans and friends around the world fol­low­ing this week’s at­tack on the Capi­tol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) Jan­u­ary 10, 2021

Any­one who is still sup­port­ing Trump or the many reps/members of Con­gress who are still fan­ning the flames are not good peo­ple. Pe­ri­od. Their hearts have been mis­led and they are the equiv­a­lent to poi­son to democ­ra­cy and the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process.

Yes, that means grand­ma who goes to church and makes pies to give to the con­gre­ga­tion every Sun­day. Or Bob who owns the bait & tack­le shop in town. They car­ry an evil in their hearts, a bru­tal dis­con­nect de­spite the pleas­antries and smiles that they are known for.

A large part of what plagues our na­tion is that our Re­pub­lic is young and naive. Peo­ple have put pol­i­tics and the de­sire for pow­er above peo­ple. We are lack­ing wis­dom and with the mech­a­nisms like so­cial me­dia at play this has made this un­fath­omably worse.

Each of us must take this mo­ment in his­to­ry se­ri­ous­ly as one that is ask­ing us all to par­tic­i­pate. Will we choose life, free­dom, eq­ui­ty, jus­tice and good­ness for all or not?

As I have said be­fore, it has be­come clear that none of this is go­ing to go away by it­self. This is now a full scale, na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty is­sue.

And we have reached a point where it is of­fi­cial­ly too enor­mous to hide un­der the rug.

 

—jasper james

Flom­mist Jasper James is a mul­ti­fac­eted di­ver­si­ty-trained en­tre­pre­neur, mul­ti-in­stru­men­tal­ist/ writer, event pro­duc­er, and for­mer Bill­board Record­ing Artist. They are also the co-founder of Ac­tivism Ar­tic­u­lat­ed, and Women’s March Blac, an all-Black branch of Women’s March Na­tion­al Lead­er­ship. Jasper is on the ACLU Sacra­men­to Chap­ter Board and the Sacra­men­to Stonewall De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Club (PAC) and is an ac­tive mem­ber of the ACLU Speak­ers Bu­reau. They were also one of only five Black sit­ting fe­male Pres­i­dents in the na­tion for the Women’s March Sacra­men­to Chap­ter. Copy­right © 2021 Jasper James. Im­age source. Post up­dat­ed to in­clude stats re­port­ed this morn­ing by The Guardian. Pho­to source.

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