Recently,
I’ve been seeing people in threads talking about the Obama administration
“putting kids in cages too,”
as a way to compare how his policies at the the border mirror those of Trump.
Indeed, there were cages BUT they were there for protection of mothers and their children from single men.
What Obama DIDN’T do was separate families from their children.
This is strange and unusually cruel behavior – in fact, if we saw this happening in areas outside of the U.S. we would move to stop it from occurring.
It is important – now more than ever – to know the factual details of these types of stories as they are more nuanced and intricate than they may appear to be but they are DIFFERENT, nonetheless.
—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 © 2020 Jasper James. Top image source, hedline via Erica.
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