This is the sole thing that keeps me down. My spouse is a first generation American with brown skin in a Republican state. If any attention is drawn to us, her, her parents, her autistic brother, the lady that cuts my hair, the grocery we visit down the road, half the parents in our neighborhood, I’m the only person in my community that isn’t currently represented in the ICE victim pool. If I rock the boat every single person I care about gets a plane trip to a foreign prison.
Every day it gets worse. Eventually, it won’t be plane rides, it will be ditches. Even if I don’t attract the attention of the government, it’s cultists yell racial slurs in as they drive lifted trucks past my community. They gnaw at the bit for a chance to cut loose and remove this stain from their white city.
I’ve seen the local protests, 10 people with signs on a busy intersection a mile from the courthouse. The police point and laugh as commuters throw drinks at them from their cars for thinking that human rights belong in a red state.
What the fuck do I do? What can I, standing here, actually do to change anything? There isn’t a single action that I can take that does not threaten to burn down my community and leave my child an orphan, and even still I’m here asking how I can solve this problem.
Organizing is the only way to protect them. If you do nothing, and it continues on this path, you will not be safe, regardless of your actions. If we can all join together and stop this NOW we can prevent that.
My wife is here on a green card. My employers are as well. Because they are fellow humans, I will die to defend them. I will fight tooth and nail. I will not be cowed by a fat orange blob who diddle kids. I will not be frightened by a mob of egomaniacal imbeciles. Their attempts to emulate fascists of the past is sloppy and will fail if put to any sort of test.
This is great, this is what I like to here, but where is the how? What do I actually do to make a difference? That’s the part everyone stops at and I’m beating every bush in this county to try to shake loose the one persone with a clue.
You’re represented even if you don’t look brown. I can’t find the story in the deluge of other similar stories, but they arrested a San Diego cop’s/sheriff’s British wife, and deported her. They were basically done getting her citizenship, and had been working on it for years at that point. Of course the idiot voted for Trump, not that it matters in CA.
I say I’m not represented because my family has been getting kicked about in these parts since the 1800s. As far as I’ve seen in the news they haven’t arrested the straight, white, male, American, partners of all the people they pick up.
Not to say I’m safe, they’ll make their way to traitors like me eventually, but right now I don’t get the luxury of getting black bagged with my wife in a traffic stop, I just get to sit at home while the life we built falls apart.
This is the sole thing that keeps me down. My spouse is a first generation American with brown skin in a Republican state. If any attention is drawn to us, her, her parents, her autistic brother, the lady that cuts my hair, the grocery we visit down the road, half the parents in our neighborhood, I’m the only person in my community that isn’t currently represented in the ICE victim pool. If I rock the boat every single person I care about gets a plane trip to a foreign prison.
Every day it gets worse. Eventually, it won’t be plane rides, it will be ditches. Even if I don’t attract the attention of the government, it’s cultists yell racial slurs in as they drive lifted trucks past my community. They gnaw at the bit for a chance to cut loose and remove this stain from their white city.
I’ve seen the local protests, 10 people with signs on a busy intersection a mile from the courthouse. The police point and laugh as commuters throw drinks at them from their cars for thinking that human rights belong in a red state.
What the fuck do I do? What can I, standing here, actually do to change anything? There isn’t a single action that I can take that does not threaten to burn down my community and leave my child an orphan, and even still I’m here asking how I can solve this problem.
Organizing is the only way to protect them. If you do nothing, and it continues on this path, you will not be safe, regardless of your actions. If we can all join together and stop this NOW we can prevent that.
My wife is here on a green card. My employers are as well. Because they are fellow humans, I will die to defend them. I will fight tooth and nail. I will not be cowed by a fat orange blob who diddle kids. I will not be frightened by a mob of egomaniacal imbeciles. Their attempts to emulate fascists of the past is sloppy and will fail if put to any sort of test.
Help me to break them.
This is great, this is what I like to here, but where is the how? What do I actually do to make a difference? That’s the part everyone stops at and I’m beating every bush in this county to try to shake loose the one persone with a clue.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Guide_to_organizing
I am going to be volunteering and trying to network. Find like minded people. I really don’t have answers beyond burn down town hall.im sorry.
You’re represented even if you don’t look brown. I can’t find the story in the deluge of other similar stories, but they arrested a San Diego cop’s/sheriff’s British wife, and deported her. They were basically done getting her citizenship, and had been working on it for years at that point. Of course the idiot voted for Trump, not that it matters in CA.
I say I’m not represented because my family has been getting kicked about in these parts since the 1800s. As far as I’ve seen in the news they haven’t arrested the straight, white, male, American, partners of all the people they pick up.
Not to say I’m safe, they’ll make their way to traitors like me eventually, but right now I don’t get the luxury of getting black bagged with my wife in a traffic stop, I just get to sit at home while the life we built falls apart.