Kate Morgan Reade: The influence of Mahatma Gandhi, upon Martin Luther King, which we have known of, is really, really clear in your segments, where both the long arc of history leading to justice, and the strength of nonviolence is highlighted here.
Thanks for making the philosophy clear so concisely.
These sayings by the great Mahatma Gandhi, in American culture through Martin Luther King can deeply engrain themselves in our mind to focus us during hard times.
Gandhi faced similar times.
Gandhi developed a nonviolent philosophy influenced from Henry David Thoreau through Lev Tolstoy, whom Gandhi met as a young man, through the strength of which mindset he faced the mailed fist of the mighty British Empire.
How lonesome Gandhi must have felt against British troops sent upon peaceful Indian resistance.
We can strengthen ourselves for resistance through grounding ourselves in philosophy of nonviolent response.
Our immediate issue will be the immigrant poor, whom Trump will target with rhetoric of racial hatred and with the police force of the military and the border control.
What occurs to me is to immediately switch attention to countless Civil Rights groups that provide legal aid and poverty relief to immigrants, including the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and such groups as described by the American Bar Association here:
Liz Gauffreau and Kate Morgan Reade: My heart sorrows over the vicious and incendiary rhetoric accepted on the street from the neo-Fascist leaders, the worse of the top two being JD Vance, Yale-Law alum, who is a vicious racist.
During Trump-I, attacks against Asians and other minorities rose in direct response to Trump's personal and LOW hatred.
After Mass in our local parish, a Rhode-Islander in exile to this Memphis Suburb (Olive Branch, MS) was teasing me (good naturedly, I must give him) about me being a liberal. Since Nancy and I have lunched with and befriended him and his wife, he knows me well. But in private talks with him and another friend at the lunch table I spoke about immigration, they had no rebuttal.
For I asserted that to catch and deport drug-dealers and sex traffickers and other leading felons was good for our national security, I told them that I feared from what a leading Republican had said the real goal was. In retrospect, I think the speaker had been Thomas Homan, Trump's coming border tsar. I told my friends that I do not know what will happen, but a leading Republican (in retrospect probably Homon) said it would be good not to prioritize criminals but to look into irregularity of status, including of "illegal immigrant" wives married to American citizens. Both of my friends became shy on that one.
What am I to do.
I cannot preach to such people.
These are good, decent men and women who naively expect Republican leadership will be responsible.
They have a right to expect that their party leadership will be responsible.
They picture, as does a dear daughter of mine, that Trump will deport mainly gangland leaders, drug dealers, and human-traffickers.
Along comes Thomas Homan and reality.
Thomas Homan was an early advocate of SEPARATING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS.
Thomas Homan was, note this, an official in the second Obama Administration, kept on by Trump -- probably because of their obscene lust to separate children from their loved ones and protectors -- which resulted in inadequate healthcare, confinement in crowded facilities, and some sexual abuse by officials.
Note this: Obama had given this fiend recognition with an award for his service, AFTER Homan had first proposed the monstruous model to strip kids of protection.
And this is the monster that Trump will elevate, imitating what actually had occurred under Trump, with hundreds of kids, under the intentionally confusing computer schemes, that blocked off information relating the child to her parents, to make tracing impossibly hard.
With Homan's naming, we know the enemy that is coming, and his role is not that of protecting us from drug dealers, gangland leaders and human traffickers.
No.
Homan's monstruous role is to think of increasingly sadistic ways to separate immigrant families, even those with a citizen spouse.
I am looking to see what is the most effective opposition to such sadism.
This is the primary reason I sorrow at the election of Trump and his Nazi, Yale-Law JD-Vance.
My sorrow is combined with deep anger at the racial hatred.
My sorrow is tempered with joy that people like you and Kate Morgan Reade and me will continue to maintain our spiritual purity and our personal integrity and do the little things that we can do individually, and, where possible, to join others to -- oh, how I miss you, dear, dear man, Congressman John Lewis -- "make good trouble!"
This is the precise evil that these men in their psychotic minds find somehow worthy of their time and focus. Meanwhile, these dear children, with abuse, neglect, maltreatment and being at the mercy of a merciless system, will be prone to become hardened, unloved, bitter, and troubled: a recipe for a life inclined to repeat the violence and abuse in the kinds of criminal acts that have been done to them, from a lack of education, nurturing, guidance, decency and human values of respect for self and others. Congratulations to the sadists at the top for their creating their own sick version of the Hitlerjugend.
Ah, but I don't want to end on that note. Yes, yes, Armand, we must Make Good Trouble!
Thank you for this beacon of hope this morning.
Beautifully simply stated
Kate Morgan Reade: The influence of Mahatma Gandhi, upon Martin Luther King, which we have known of, is really, really clear in your segments, where both the long arc of history leading to justice, and the strength of nonviolence is highlighted here.
Thanks for making the philosophy clear so concisely.
These sayings by the great Mahatma Gandhi, in American culture through Martin Luther King can deeply engrain themselves in our mind to focus us during hard times.
Gandhi faced similar times.
Gandhi developed a nonviolent philosophy influenced from Henry David Thoreau through Lev Tolstoy, whom Gandhi met as a young man, through the strength of which mindset he faced the mailed fist of the mighty British Empire.
How lonesome Gandhi must have felt against British troops sent upon peaceful Indian resistance.
We can strengthen ourselves for resistance through grounding ourselves in philosophy of nonviolent response.
Our immediate issue will be the immigrant poor, whom Trump will target with rhetoric of racial hatred and with the police force of the military and the border control.
What occurs to me is to immediately switch attention to countless Civil Rights groups that provide legal aid and poverty relief to immigrants, including the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and such groups as described by the American Bar Association here:
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/immigration/resources/immigration-resources/
Immigration may well be the flashpoint soon in a second Trump Administration.
Thank you so much for sharing a powerful, strong message in few words.
The conciseness shows your own considerable gift with words.
I just can’t comprehend that kind of sadism, particularly toward families who are just trying to live their lives.
Well said, Armand. I think you're right that our attention should shift to Civil Rights groups who provide services and advocacy for immigrants.
Liz Gauffreau and Kate Morgan Reade: My heart sorrows over the vicious and incendiary rhetoric accepted on the street from the neo-Fascist leaders, the worse of the top two being JD Vance, Yale-Law alum, who is a vicious racist.
During Trump-I, attacks against Asians and other minorities rose in direct response to Trump's personal and LOW hatred.
After Mass in our local parish, a Rhode-Islander in exile to this Memphis Suburb (Olive Branch, MS) was teasing me (good naturedly, I must give him) about me being a liberal. Since Nancy and I have lunched with and befriended him and his wife, he knows me well. But in private talks with him and another friend at the lunch table I spoke about immigration, they had no rebuttal.
For I asserted that to catch and deport drug-dealers and sex traffickers and other leading felons was good for our national security, I told them that I feared from what a leading Republican had said the real goal was. In retrospect, I think the speaker had been Thomas Homan, Trump's coming border tsar. I told my friends that I do not know what will happen, but a leading Republican (in retrospect probably Homon) said it would be good not to prioritize criminals but to look into irregularity of status, including of "illegal immigrant" wives married to American citizens. Both of my friends became shy on that one.
What am I to do.
I cannot preach to such people.
These are good, decent men and women who naively expect Republican leadership will be responsible.
They have a right to expect that their party leadership will be responsible.
They picture, as does a dear daughter of mine, that Trump will deport mainly gangland leaders, drug dealers, and human-traffickers.
Along comes Thomas Homan and reality.
Thomas Homan was an early advocate of SEPARATING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS.
Thomas Homan was, note this, an official in the second Obama Administration, kept on by Trump -- probably because of their obscene lust to separate children from their loved ones and protectors -- which resulted in inadequate healthcare, confinement in crowded facilities, and some sexual abuse by officials.
Note this: Obama had given this fiend recognition with an award for his service, AFTER Homan had first proposed the monstruous model to strip kids of protection.
And this is the monster that Trump will elevate, imitating what actually had occurred under Trump, with hundreds of kids, under the intentionally confusing computer schemes, that blocked off information relating the child to her parents, to make tracing impossibly hard.
With Homan's naming, we know the enemy that is coming, and his role is not that of protecting us from drug dealers, gangland leaders and human traffickers.
No.
Homan's monstruous role is to think of increasingly sadistic ways to separate immigrant families, even those with a citizen spouse.
I am looking to see what is the most effective opposition to such sadism.
This is the primary reason I sorrow at the election of Trump and his Nazi, Yale-Law JD-Vance.
My sorrow is combined with deep anger at the racial hatred.
My sorrow is tempered with joy that people like you and Kate Morgan Reade and me will continue to maintain our spiritual purity and our personal integrity and do the little things that we can do individually, and, where possible, to join others to -- oh, how I miss you, dear, dear man, Congressman John Lewis -- "make good trouble!"
This is the precise evil that these men in their psychotic minds find somehow worthy of their time and focus. Meanwhile, these dear children, with abuse, neglect, maltreatment and being at the mercy of a merciless system, will be prone to become hardened, unloved, bitter, and troubled: a recipe for a life inclined to repeat the violence and abuse in the kinds of criminal acts that have been done to them, from a lack of education, nurturing, guidance, decency and human values of respect for self and others. Congratulations to the sadists at the top for their creating their own sick version of the Hitlerjugend.
Ah, but I don't want to end on that note. Yes, yes, Armand, we must Make Good Trouble!
Thank you.