In case of emergency, break glass ceiling
To Donald Trump’s backward-looking “Make America Great Again” movement, Vice President Kamala Harris says forcefully, “We’re not going back.” Her rally crowds now chant it.
@dailymail Kamala Harris said ‘we’re not going back!’ to ‘failed economic policies,’ which prompted chants from the crowd. #kamala #kamalaharris #vicepresident #president #trump #election #politics #usa #wisconsin #brat ♬ original sound – frankiepolari
“So here’s the thing about breaking barriers,” Harris told the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies in Wasghington, D.C. on Monday. She’s broken a few. “Breaking barriers does not mean you start on one side of the barrier and you end up on the other side. There’s breaking involved. And when you break things, you get cut. And you may bleed. And it is worth it every time, every time.”
This campaign to push back the fascist urges of the MAGA Republican Party’s Christian nationalists will not be pretty. Their once racist and sexist dog whistles now are fog horns. The metaphorical “cutting” Harris mentioned will be involved in the breaking ahead. People who once were and still are being hurt in this “land of the free” know their freedoms, their families, and their futures are at stake in this election. Yours as well.
Much went on yesterday (Wednesday), including Joe Biden’s speech to the nation from the Oval Office. But if you missed it, do yourself a favor and watch Maya Wiley, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, deliver her emotional rebuttal to Republican efforts to turn back the clock on America to a time when women and minorities knew their place.
Attempts to repeal the last 60+ years of progress toward equity in this country comes from “a certain group of people who [feel] victimized by fairness, victimized by competition from the competent, who are upset because for so long they’ve gotten to be mediocre and rise.”
Dear Leader is the patron saint of mediocre. And he doesn’t even rise to that level.
We’re not going back.
Updated: Added more clips that capture Wiley’s passion.
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