obama’s involvement does not lessen the severity of what trump is doing

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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