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So we went to SOA this weekend and I was surprised by my own reaction to it. On Saturday, the rally, I felt like I was back at college at Antioch...this is hard to say about a movement that really seems so worthy but...I dunno. People there really cared enough to be there and be present and that's cool. And it was white, for sure. Who else really has the resources to take so much time off work and pay all the gas to get to Ft. Bennning? But mostly I was bothered because it seemed so indulgent, in a sense. Like a lot of people just being there and being weird and outlandish for the sake of being weird and outlandish...this is hard to be so judgemental. Sometimes I just think it happens that a lot of time and energy goes into being securing a certain look or image or whatever when those aren't the important things, really...the important thing is not to be the individual making the change but to be part of the *people* making the change. And, most of all, to be led by those most affected by the atrocities. Because at some point people begin to question what this movement is about when those most affected are absent. Solidarity has to include a solid base, the affected base of the people.
Am I just getting older, that the atmosphere didn't seem like fun? Why should it be fun? It's a situational travesty. Wish I could've talked to someone about this at the time but there was just too much happening in my head to do so. Plus this recent identity shift has just been very complicated.
Am I just getting older, that the atmosphere didn't seem like fun? Why should it be fun? It's a situational travesty. Wish I could've talked to someone about this at the time but there was just too much happening in my head to do so. Plus this recent identity shift has just been very complicated.