Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World

[homasse]

Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World
Police brutality experienced by the movement is nothing new in the black community.

Comments

[mahasin]

*slow clap*

[simplefaith08]

*also joins*

[starsinshapes]

Yes to all of this.

[jettakd]

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[astridmyrna]

*applauds as well*
Someone tweeted at me that we need to come together and not point out silly differences like race because we're in this together!

That reasoning needs to DIAF. Ignoring a legitimate issue in a movement won't solve it nor should it be seen as an attempt of solving it.

[starsinshapes]

There's this one comment at the source basically saying that and I cringed.

[astridmyrna]

Welp, that was bound to happen. Murphy's law and all that.

[chaya]

Anytime "coming together" involves the more oppressed people shutting up, I am pretty fucking suspicious.

[intrikate88]

Yeppppppp. To all of this.

Someone tweeted at me that we need to come together and not point out silly differences like race because we're in this together!

Right, can we just tell the world there's a moratorium on this sort of statement? Because it comes up in ever. Goddamn. Movement. Jesus, I'm reading about suffragism in early 20th-century London and there was just about as much "Why are you bringing up silly differences like class or anti-war sentiments when we have THE CAUSE that we're all in together." Let the sentiment gather dust in an antique shop somewhere because that's all it's good for, and stop avoiding dealing with the fact that every movement is not homogenous and maybe start working on that as a strength instead of a weakness, somehow.