I appreciate Susheela's email message. I have felt the same rage and fear she describes. I agree that unity requires accountability and that we need to confront the violence, injustice and racism in our history. Further, I am afraid that we are in for a long haul to overcome the evil that has been metastasizing in our midst. I am not minimizing that. It's just that I'd rather continue that fight with the sense, or is it hope?, as Biden framed it, that most of us are better than the "this" of January 6 and all that gave rise to it.
I'm all for accusation and accountability, swift, firm and certain, where it is warranted, beginning with both the actors and their enablers in the assault on the Capitol. I'll let my post this afternoon speak to this issue before weighing in again.
Spot on post. Those who are putting up roadblocks to accountability for the aggressors AND their enablers (such as the folks who looked the other way at Trump comments and actions) are extending the time and place for healing. Just saying you abhor the assault while ignoring years of complacency doesn't - and shouldn't - cut it.
Interesting that Susheela's comments include a paragraph that is almost verbatim to one I wrote yesterday in my post that will run this afternoon. But I arrived at the opposite conclusion. This not who we are -- at least not who most of us are most of the time. It is not who I am, nor who most of the people I know are. And, at this moment, it is not who 88% of Americans (those who oppose, and in most cases abhor, the assault on the Capitol) are.
I appreciate Susheela's email message. I have felt the same rage and fear she describes. I agree that unity requires accountability and that we need to confront the violence, injustice and racism in our history. Further, I am afraid that we are in for a long haul to overcome the evil that has been metastasizing in our midst. I am not minimizing that. It's just that I'd rather continue that fight with the sense, or is it hope?, as Biden framed it, that most of us are better than the "this" of January 6 and all that gave rise to it.
I'm all for accusation and accountability, swift, firm and certain, where it is warranted, beginning with both the actors and their enablers in the assault on the Capitol. I'll let my post this afternoon speak to this issue before weighing in again.
Spot on post. Those who are putting up roadblocks to accountability for the aggressors AND their enablers (such as the folks who looked the other way at Trump comments and actions) are extending the time and place for healing. Just saying you abhor the assault while ignoring years of complacency doesn't - and shouldn't - cut it.
Interesting that Susheela's comments include a paragraph that is almost verbatim to one I wrote yesterday in my post that will run this afternoon. But I arrived at the opposite conclusion. This not who we are -- at least not who most of us are most of the time. It is not who I am, nor who most of the people I know are. And, at this moment, it is not who 88% of Americans (those who oppose, and in most cases abhor, the assault on the Capitol) are.