Just about every day, Hari Kondabolu tweets this :
REMINDER FOR DAY 211 OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY: THIS IS NOT NORMAL (AND NORMAL WASN’T THAT GREAT EITHER)
— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) August 18, 2017
I have not tired of it. I enjoy seeing it. I scroll through my feed of witty black women, left leaning writers and entertainers, activists. My echo chamber. I’m not leaving it. People (mainly liberals)(“liberal” is not a bad word) like to say it’s not good to be in an echo chamber. You need to engage people on the other side. “Love Trumps Hate” (this is not a clever slogan). Understand their opinion. Love them into agreeing that you are a human being and should be warranted the same rights as pets or city property. Along those lines.
I am preferring to stay in my echo chamber. To listen to the podcasts that assure me that no, this is not normal. That the default of a human should be anti-racism and anti-bigotry. I will stay watching my MSNBC and keeping my Twitter feed doused in Black Girl Magic. I will stay informed as much as possible. I will continue to speak out and resist.
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Hari hosts a podcast Politcally Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell.
There’s the writer guy you might have heard of James Baldwin
My fave, Skinny Black Girl, is on a summer blog sabbatical but dropped this gem on Facebook.
By now it’s a little more than cliche to say “stay woke” but I mean…it fits. Stay woke.
I do not want to build a bridge with people over trump anymore. I do not want to understand. I read to inform myself, including things I think are INSANE like Breitbart…but I no longer care to waste my time trying to show people the light. I am with Skinnyblackgirl’s FB words – they are complicit. He showed us who he is and they voted for that, or in spite of it, and that’s just as bad.