on growing up with refugees

[rushthatspeaks]

Welp. It took a week for us to get to Constitutional crisis. Whoopee.

Fox is becoming a very-well-traveled baby; Ruth took them to Copley Square today to the anti-Islamophobia pro-immigration protest, and they did very well, which I was figuring they would after they coped with walking the entire route of the Womens' March with me and

Comments

[asakiyume]

That is the America that I grew up in: refugees engaged in both active resistance to and active forgiveness of their oppressors. That is my America.

Beautiful.

My favorite chant from the afternoon: This is what America looks like.

[khava]

<3

[landofnowhere]

Thank you; that was very moving.

[steepholm]

Thank you for that.

[sovay]

Eighteen years in that community and I never heard a word of hate. That is the America that I grew up in: refugees engaged in both active resistance to and active forgiveness of their oppressors. That is my America.

Thank you for telling its story.

Love.

[rushthatspeaks]

Thank you for telling its story.

Oh, dear, no, I don't know the whole well enough to do that, and I hope it doesn't come off as though I do. I never knew all the details, and I was a child at the time besides; my experience is the only one I can cite and be absolutely certain of the accuracy. The story itself belongs to other people, and I intersected it only around the edges. I hope somebody is telling the full story, somewhere, but since I am no longer a Baha'i or in touch with the Baha'is I don't know who or where or how.