Thank you for sharing your thoughts LuuLuu. So many of us have struggled many of the same things you spoke on. I have so many feelings about so much of all that has happened in the last five years. I must say 2020 shook me to my core but thankfully it didn’t break me. Losing my sister, niece, and nephew and so many friends to Covid has definitely changed me in ways that are unfamiliar to me. I’m a very optimistic person but now I find myself being very cautious and unwilling to bend and that’s sad. What I do try to remember are my mother’s words, “Be careful not to become like those that oppress you.”
This was a really needed viewpoint. I started feeling the shift in the 8 years preceding the dark years of the presidency. With my joy and pride at an all time high I saw the reality of how hateful people could be and it has degraded over time where they have now created in me what they accused black woken of being and that is angry. I never thought they people were like this growing up. I had a very positive look on people and the work we live in but the actions pure vitriol that I have witnessed has broken me. Where do we go from here?
It's TRUE about the rise of the "Karens". My family were at a big ol' park, we going up a dual-sided outside stair-case. This older white lady says to my husband "you going up the wrong side" and my husband looked at her and said "So!?" 🤨 It's like, leave people alone. You don't know if the person that you are bothering has mental issues and will loose it on you. People need to mind their business unless you see someone being hurt, then you can intervene.
Trump and his followers have hurt this country so bad. I hate that this happened. I live in SW Missouri and there are some stupid m*f$%&rs here. It makes me so angry & sad.
