July 2 – Action Alert: Submit Comments on Proposed USPS Ballot Mail Rules by July 2 at 5 PM
Watch video here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZ-saQ0Dr5O/
The U.S. Postal Service is accepting public comments on proposed regulations that would create new federal requirements for the handling of absentee and mail-in ballots in federal elections.
The League of Women Voters is concerned that these proposed changes could create new administrative burdens, delay ballot distribution, and potentially create barriers that prevent eligible voters from receiving and returning their ballots in time to be counted. The national League of Women Voters has created a resource page explaining the proposal and the concerns it raises:
Learn More:
League of Women Voters Action Alert: Oppose Proposed Mail and Absentee Ballot Regulations
Take Action
Comments must be submitted to the U.S. Postal Service by July 2, 2026 by 5 PM.
VIEW THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE ON THE FEDERAL REGULATORY COMMENT PAGE: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10968/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections
Email comments to:
PCFederalRegister@usps.gov
Subject line: Ballot Mail
See suggested comment language here.
Because the national League of Women Voters and the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts are currently involved in litigation related to this matter, we encourage members to use the approved talking points and suggested language provided by the League.
Information: https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/postmaster-general-confirms-plan-hold-164500622.html___________
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A number of you having been asking for an update on T & GOP sycophants’ attempt to push through plans to massively restrict voting (which the Postmaster General of the USPS, David Steiner, had agree to assist) :
1) U.S. District Judge Denise Casper permanently barred T’s admin last Wed from enforcing the majority of T’s election executive order, including its requirement that voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, preventing mail ballots from being counted if they arrived after Election Day even when properly postmarked & penalizing states that do not comply by taking away federal funding.
2) The next day, a federal Massachusetts judge, Indira Talwani, blocked Postmaster General David Steiner’s plan to withhold ballots from the 31 states refusing to comply with an executive order to collect their voter rolls. She also nullified the order as unconstitutional, killing T’s plan to establish a national voter list. (Link to article in comments)
3) Judge Talwani’s ruling directly addresses the 31-states coalition that has refused to hand over their voter roles to T’s DOJ. USPS mail carriers are legally prohibited in these states from withholding or refusing to deliver mail-in or absentee ballots for the upcoming November midterm election.
4) The legislative efforts in maga controlled House & Senate are expected to continue regardless of the above court decisions re: aspects of T’s SAVE Act & attempts at forcing states to submit voter registration lists to the DOJ – and messing with mail-in voting.
What can WE do right now, friends? Push your state legislators to pass strict data-privacy laws that explicitly forbid state election officials from sharing un-redacted voter files (including partial Social Security or driver’s license numbers) with federal agencies without a specific congressional mandate. State election laws explicitly outline that the responsibility to safeguard voter data belongs to the state, not the federal government! And, vote early – and if you’re voting by mail, sign up for a state ballot tracker
July 6 and 26 – DEADLINES ON COMMENTS FOR FCC OVERREACH
Please express your concerns to the FCC about their badgering of ABC Television Network / ABC Stations / Disney / Democracy. fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=26-131fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5bname%5d=26-124
Sample note:
Freedom of speech is a core foundational principle of our Democracy. Threatening Disney, ABC News, the ABC Television Network and its stations constantly —because presenters and on-air talents exercise their fundamental Constitutional right to free speech— is UNACCEPTABLE. The people of ABC and Disney are champions of free speech and expression.
Mr. Carr, FCC: We are not living in North Korea or Russia. This is AMERICA! Please cease and desist these ongoing assaults on ABC, Disney and our Democracy!
Background from Washington Post:
ABC viewers across the country are getting a message from the network: If you like your local stations, or “The View,” help us get the government off our back.
ABC on Monday launched an on-air campaign asking viewers to send comments to the Federal Communications Commission’s website pushing back on the agency and its chairman, Brendan Carr. Since February, the FCC has been investigating whether ABC’s “The View” violated the commission’s equal-time rule, which guarantees equal airtime to all candidates running for the same public office. ABC has maintained that “The View” qualifies as what the commission calls a “bona fide” news program and is exempt from the rule, accusing the FCC of violating the First Amendment in a legal filing.
In April, the FCC also ordered an early review of ABC’s eight local stations over its diversity, equity and inclusion practices. The review was announced just days after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump intensely criticized ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, though the FCC maintained that the timing was purely coincidental.
Intensifying its response, ABC began airing two television spots directing viewers to submit public comments on the FCC’s website.
More Information: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5934778-abc-campaign-defends-the-view/
Below are the links to the two regulatory filings, and the deadlines for comments
Comment link for FCC action against The View – DEADLINE is July 6th: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5bname%5d=26-124
Comment Link for the FCC action against ABC Owned Stations- DEADLINE is July 29th: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express
July 13 – DEADLINE ON FEDERAL GRANT REGULATORY CHANGE
EMERGENCY ALERT – GET READY TO WRITE!: Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is trying to pass sweeping regulatory change that will end American science as we know it and catastrophically damage federal assistance that benefits all of society.
Vought is a key author of the ultra-right wing Project 2025 plan and is using his new powers to delete science for any subject that makes the far-right sad and GOP donors mad.
Since he doesn’t want climate change information to hurt the GOP’s fossil fuel donors, he tried to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. Damage was done before he was stopped. He also tried to dismantle dismantle the $368 million OOI system, which uses more than 900 sensors in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to stream continuous data. A bi-partisan pushback stopped him from destroying this gold-standard warning system for environmental mayhem.
Now, he wants to pencil out offending projects by grabbing power to delete their grants, especially research on women, people of color, LGBTQ+ communities, and religious minorities.
The Stand up For Science folks have a great website: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net)
Here’s their references to make this task easy. Read Dr. Ginex’s overview and the guide to leaving public comments, then have at it.
– OMB Rule Related Resources
View the full OMB-2026-0034 Proposed Rule
(https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance)
– View the SUFS Overview of the Rule Proposal
(https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/blog-post-title-two-t5my5-k4xmd-4tbkf)
– Read Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi’s Overview on the Rule Proposal
(https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed)
– View the SUFS Guide to Leaving Public Comments
(https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed)
– Learn How To Talk to Anyone About the New OMB Rule
(https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/how-to-talk-to-anyone-about-omb-2026-0034)
- You can also go directly to their call action page here: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163674)
- They have a page to help you send an email here: (https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163673)
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ACTION TO STOP MUSK TAKING PUBLIC LAND
Stop The Trillionaire From Stealing Land From Our Endangered Wildlife Refuges!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to hand over 715 acres of this precious refuge to SpaceX in exchange for smaller land parcels scattered across the region. This sweetheart deal would be one of the largest land exchanges in the history of the national wildlife refuge system.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge protects some of the best remaining habitat in the United States for the endangered ocelot. It also hosts vulnerable migratory birds such as piping plovers, Wilson’s plovers, red knots, and black skimmers.
SpaceX’s activities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley have already caused damage to important wildlife habitat, including documented destruction of sensitive shorebird nests. If this dubious deal goes through, it will sever crucial corridors for endangered species and make even more animals suffer.
Don’t let the federal government hand over irreplaceable public lands to a corporation run by the richest man on Earth.
Tell your senators to stop this giveaway and protect the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and the wildlife who depend on it. If it can happen in Texas it can happen anywhere. Fight Back! https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X83FT5XNf0w2
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GOOD TROUBLE – 7/18
Good Trouble links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1010243555167917/
Mobilize: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/974409/
SATICOY UPDATE
Video
Watch the video: https://sarahtowle.substack.com/p/divest-now-say-no-to-ice-impunity
It’s a Lovely Life by Heather Delaney Reese
At 3:37 yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump sat with his shoulders slumped forward, his hands hidden on his legs beneath the dark wooden desk in the Oval Office. His eyes remained closed as he fought to stay awake while a circle of handpicked far-right religious power brokers and political loyalists stood packed tightly behind him. A stack of bright red “America Is Back” hats rested on the corner of his desk like campaign merchandise waiting to be handed out. For 21 minutes and 14 seconds, they filled the room with one proclamation after another about God, faith, and the future of America.
Many were there as members of his Religious Liberty Commission, the people now laying the ideological foundation for the so-called moral vision of his presidency and for the future of the United States of America. And although Trump had a very demanding schedule yesterday, he made time for this carefully staged event because it marked the next phase of his plan to retain power: wrapping his political movement in the authority of God, blurring the line between faith and politics until loyalty to one becomes loyalty to the other. That strategy was summed up in a single sentence spoken by the chairman of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission: “Again, the separation of church and state is not in the Constitution.”
That was Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the man Donald J. Trump personally selected to lead his Religious Liberty Commission. Standing in the Oval Office beside Dr. Phil McGraw, Ben Carson, Bishop Robert Barron, Paula White-Cain, Kelly Shackelford of First Liberty Institute, Ryan Anderson, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and other members of the commission, Patrick didn’t stop there. He went even further, declaring, “And from this day forward, that phrase should have no power over people of all faiths ever again in America.”
He then looked at Trump and said, “No president in our history has stood more for God than this president.” Trump, who had barely kept his eyes open through most of the presentation, perked up just enough to say, “We will never let that phrase be stolen from us. People are trying to steal it, we all know that very well.”
The document they placed on Trump’s desk was 224 pages long. It is called America’s First Freedom, the draft report of the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission. It doesn’t simply argue for greater religious liberty. It lays out a roadmap for weaving religion more deeply into the machinery of the federal government. It calls for dismantling long-standing barriers between church and state and replacing them with what the report describes as “bridges” between the two.
Among its recommendations are repealing the Johnson Amendment, the 1954 law that prohibits churches and other tax-exempt religious organizations from endorsing political candidates while keeping their tax-exempt status. It calls for the Department of Justice to establish a Religious Liberty Task Force to investigate and prioritize religious liberty litigation. It proposes “Know Your Rights” posters in schools, hospitals, and military installations, religious liberty hotlines, the nomination of federal judges with a demonstrated record of favoring religious expression, a new Presidential Medal of Religious Liberty, and expanded exhibits at federal historic sites celebrating the role of religion in America’s history, even as the Smithsonian is being directed to remove or minimize exhibits about slavery, Japanese American internment, and conflicts with Native Americans.
And one recommendation, in particular, should make all of us stop and think. They want to repeal the very law that prevents churches from openly campaigning for political candidates while keeping their tax-exempt status. Why remove that guardrail now? Because many churches have already crossed that line for years. Instead of enforcing the law, this commission proposes changing it. That’s a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly throughout this administration. When the rules become inconvenient, they don’t change their behavior. They try to change the rules. Expanding the ability of tax-exempt religious organizations to campaign for political candidates would give politicians direct access to millions of Americans who turn to their churches for guidance, community, and answers during the most important moments of their lives.
The Religious Liberty Commission was filled almost entirely by conservative Christians. Its very first hearing was held at the Museum of the Bible and opened with a prayer “in Jesus’ name.” Seven lawsuits have been filed against the commission for violating federal law requiring ideological diversity on advisory panels. The administration is trying to have those lawsuits dismissed by arguing that the law does not define what “balanced” means.
Bishop Barron, one of the commission’s most prominent members, told the press not to be “cowed” by the concept of separation of church and state. “I say, no, don’t buy that,” he said. Dr. Phil described Americans as being “persecuted in their jobs” for their faith. Ben Carson spoke of “egregious acts” against children as young as four simply because of their beliefs. And at the center of it all sat Donald Trump, a man who does not regularly attend church, who has publicly struggled to discuss even the most basic tenets of Christianity, and whose public engagement with religion has often been tied to political events rather than personal worship. Yet none of that seemed to matter. He didn’t need to be the theologian in the room. He only needed to be the politician willing to lend the power of the presidency to the people standing behind him.
Hours earlier, Trump stood before the crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition gathering at the Washington Hilton, continuing to play the part, boasting, “We saved religion, it was going down.” He accused the Biden administration of carrying out a “reign of persecution.” And then he said the part that revealed the real purpose of it all: the fear that everything they had already done to harm this country could be undone. With Trump saying, “Everyone needs to get out and vote in the midterms. We have to win this election. This election is very vital. If we don’t, everything that we’ve gotten, we’ve gotten so much.” That is what this is about. Not salvation or scripture. Not protecting the faithful. It was all about protecting power.
This attack on our actual freedom of religion did not stay inside the White House. Because on the very same day that the report was placed on the president’s desk, the Texas State Board of Education, led by the same Republican political infrastructure, voted 9-5-1, with one abstention, to make Texas the first state in the country to require that public school students read the Bible. Not as an elective or even an option, but as a mandatory curriculum, from kindergarten through 12th grade. Picture books about David and Goliath in elementary school. Passages about Jesus by fourth grade. The Sermon on the Mount by middle school. Specific Bible translations mandated, including the King James Version, which is favored by Protestant and Evangelical churches. No other religious tradition appears anywhere on the list. A Stanford professor who studies education said he is not aware of any other state that has ever mandated religious texts as required reading in public schools.
And then this morning, Trump posted a fake image of himself on Truth Social depicting himself as Atlas, the Greek god, on one knee, draped in an American flag, holding the entire planet Earth on his shoulders. This was two months after he posted another outlandish image of himself as Jesus Christ, wearing a white robe, healing a sick man in a hospital bed while light radiated from his hands and bald eagles soared behind him. He deleted that one after the backlash reached even his own supporters. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously called herself a “proud Christian nationalist,” said, “It’s more than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit.” And when reporters asked Trump about it, he said, “I thought it was me as a doctor.”
And none of this is about God or even religion. Deeply religious people, truly faithful people, feel an obligation to their fellow human beings. They feed the hungry. They shelter the homeless. They visit the sick. They care for the poor, the weak, and the forgotten. That is what faith asks of people, in every tradition, language, and corner of the world. The Bible that they want mandated in Texas classrooms contains the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus said blessed are the poor, blessed are the meek, blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. The same administration that is requiring children to read those words is gutting Medicaid. Slashing food assistance. Stripping protections from the most vulnerable people in this country. Concentrating wealth at the very top while telling working families that their rights come from God, not from government, which is just another way of saying: do not look to us for help.
This is not a revival. It is a takeover. And the tool is not scripture. It is control. Control over women, through abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive healthcare, justified by religious language that treats women’s bodies as property of the state. Control over the poor by dismantling every safety net and replacing it with a sermon. Control over education, by dictating what children are allowed to read and framing obedience as patriotism. Control over dissent, by collapsing the space between political disagreement and spiritual heresy, so that questioning the president becomes the same as questioning God.
Every authoritarian regime in the last century understood this. Franco wrapped his dictatorship in Catholicism and called it a crusade. The Taliban imposed religious law and called it virtue. The Islamic Republic of Iran fused mosque and state and called it revolution. And in every single case, the faith itself was not the point. The point was that once you convince people that their leader speaks for God, they stop asking questions. They stop demanding accountability. They stop believing they have the right to resist. Because resistance is no longer a political act. It becomes a sin.
That is the architecture being assembled right now in the United States of America. A government-backed prayer rally on the National Mall, where the Secretary of Defense asked Americans to pray to “our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” A 224-page government report calling the separation of church and state a legal error. A state mandate requiring children to read the Bible in public school. A televised competition of teenagers where the White House decides who is patriotic enough to represent their state. And a president who posts images of himself as Christ, as Atlas, as a figure beyond human scale, while the people around him nod and call him the greatest champion God has ever had in the White House.
And we need to see it for what it is. We are a little over four months from the most consequential midterm elections of our lifetimes. Every single one of these moves is happening now for a reason. They see the writing on the wall. Their polling is slipping. The special elections keep breaking against them. The resistance is growing louder, not quieter. And every person in that Oval Office on Friday has something to lose. Political power. Financial empires. Legal exposure. Proximity to the one man who keeps them shielded from accountability. They are not building this infrastructure because they are confident. They are building it because they are desperate. And desperate people with institutional power do not slow down. They accelerate. They try to lock everything in place before the voters arrive. They flood the system with so much that it becomes impossible to fight on every front at once. That is what this week was. Not a show of strength. A show of fear.
And every single person standing behind that desk on Friday is telling Trump only what they want him to see. They are managing a man who cannot stay awake through his own commission’s report, feeding him images of himself as a god, so he feels powerful enough to keep signing what they put in front of him. The 224-page document was not written by Donald Trump. There is no doubt that he did not even read it and never will. It was written by the Heritage Foundation architects, the Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers, and the Christian nationalist operatives who have been planning this for decades. Trump is the vehicle. And the vehicle is running out of gas. So they are driving faster.
So what do we do? We talk to the people around us who are not paying attention. Not just the ones who are committed to this movement. We need to reach the people sitting this election out. The ones who think their vote doesn’t matter because nothing ever changes. Those are the people who decide elections, and right now, too many of them are still on the sidelines.
We have to reach them. Not with outrage, but with facts. Not with insults, but with evidence. We have to show them what is happening in plain sight: that Donald Trump’s presidency is being used as a vehicle to erode the separation between church and state, and that the only thing standing between this agenda and lasting political power is what we choose to do between now and November.
And we need people of every faith to stand with us. Christians. Jews. Muslims. Hindus. Buddhists. Sikhs. People whose faith is deeply personal, and people who have no religious affiliation at all. This isn’t a fight over whose religion is right. It’s a fight to preserve every American’s freedom to believe, or not believe, without the government choosing sides.
They are not slowing down. Every day brings another attempt to normalize what would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Tomorrow there will be another announcement. Another policy. Another line crossed. We have to slow them down now, and in November, we have to stop them.
They want us to believe this is inevitable. That the fusion of church and state and strongman is already complete. But it is not. The report is a draft, open for public comment until July 12th. The Texas mandate does not take effect until 2030. The lawsuits against the commission are still moving through the courts. The midterms have not happened yet. Nothing is set in stone, no matter how desperately they carve.
And if we need a reminder of what is possible, we only need to look at the very history they are trying to rewrite. This country was not founded as a Christian nation. It was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, people who understood, from lived experience, what happens when the state claims to speak for God. They wrote the First Amendment not to protect the government from religion, but to protect the people from a government that would use religion as a weapon. That protection has stood for 250 years. It has survived wars, assassinations, economic collapse, and every test this republic has faced. It can survive Donald Trump, too. But only if we refuse to surrender it. And we never will. That is why I still have hope for America. And you should, too.
I’ll see you tomorrow,
Heather
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Dawson McKie
Dear White America,
I need you to shut up for once. Not forever. Relax. Nobody is stealing your precious right to interrupt every conversation and make yourself the victim. Just long enough to actually listen.
Black people have been telling you the truth for generations, and too many of you keep responding like spoiled children being asked to clean up a mess you swear you didn’t make. You hear “racism” and start sweating. You hear “white privilege” and act like someone insulted your bloodline. You hear Black people talk about pain, exhaustion, fear, anger, history, and survival, and somehow still find a way to make the whole damn thing about your feelings.
That is the problem. Not your guilt. Your ego. Your fragile, loud, allergic-to-accountability ego. Black people are not asking you to hate yourself. They are asking you to stop lying to yourself. Stop pretending this country ended up this unequal by accident. Stop acting like racism is some ancient ghost story instead of a living machine that still works perfectly when white comfort needs protecting.
And too many of you do what you always do. You deflect. You deny. You minimize. You say “not all white people” like it’s some magic spell that makes the conversation disappear. Nobody said every white person wakes up polishing a Klan hood, Chad. But enough of you protect racism. Enough of you excuse it. Enough of you benefit from it. Enough of you get quiet when it matters. Enough of you only care when being called racist hurts your feelings.
That is why Black people are tired. Not “long day” tired. Soul tired. Generationally tired. Tired from explaining the obvious to people who keep choosing stupidity because the truth would require change. Tired from being told to calm down by people who have never carried what they carry. Tired from being called divisive for naming the division white supremacy created in the first damn place.
And honestly? I get why Black people are angry. I get why they do not trust us. I get why they side-eye every white person who suddenly “just wants to understand” after spending years ignoring what was right in front of them. White America has made Black people explain racism like a customer service complaint. “Can you provide examples?” “Can you say it nicer?” “Can you prove intent?” “Can you educate me?” “Can you make me feel less bad while you describe your suffering?” Are you serious?
Black people are not your damn racial trauma librarians. They are not here to hand-deliver your moral development with footnotes, patience, and a smile. And still, they have explained. Again and again and again. With history. With data. With stories. With tears. With dead bodies. With mothers grieving on camera. With children learning too early that the world sees them as a threat before it sees them as human. And white America still has the nerve to ask, “But is it really that bad?”
Yes. It is that bad. It has been that bad. You just had the luxury of not having to give a damn. That is privilege. Not that your life was easy. Not that you never struggled. Privilege means your struggle was not made harder because of your Blackness. It means your mistakes did not become evidence against your entire race. It means your anger gets called passion while Black anger gets called dangerous. It means you can be messy, loud, suspicious, wrong, mediocre, or flat-out stupid and still be treated as an individual. Black people do not get that mercy.
And deep down, white America knows it. That is why you get so defensive. You know the schools were unequal. You know the housing was stolen. You know the policing was violent. You know the prisons were filled. You know the wealth gap was engineered. You know the stereotypes were manufactured. You know the history books were sanitized. You know the playing field was never level. You know. You just do not want to lose the lie.
Because the lie lets you feel innocent. The lie lets you say, “I worked hard,” without admitting somebody else was forced to work harder for less. The lie lets you say, “I never owned slaves,” while ignoring everything whiteness inherited after slavery ended. The lie lets you say, “That was the past,” while living inside the advantages the past built. And I am sorry, but that is bullshit. Actually, no. I am not sorry. It is bullshit.
White America loves Black culture. Black music. Black slang. Black athletes. Black style. Black labor. Black cool. Black brilliance. Black resilience. But the second Black people demand respect, suddenly everybody clutches their pearls and misquotes Martin Luther King. You do not get to love what Black people create while hating what Black people survive. You do not get to consume Black culture and reject Black pain. That is not appreciation. That is extraction.
And Black people see it. They see the fake allies. The quiet racists. The “good white people” who disappear when the conversation gets uncomfortable. The liberals who want applause for basic decency. The conservatives who think racism ended because they personally do not say the N-word in public. The moderates who care more about “both sides” than actual justice. The tone police. The comment-section cowards. The weaponized ignorance. They see all of it. And the most insulting part is that white people think they are hiding it well. You are not.
Black people are not confused. They are exhausted. They are not “playing the race card.” They are naming the damn game. Racism is not just white hoods and burning crosses. Sometimes racism is your silence. Sometimes it is your excuses. Sometimes it is your “devil’s advocate” bullshit. Sometimes it is your family group chat. Sometimes it is your voting record. Sometimes it is who you believe, who you fear, who you forgive, and whose pain you need explained five different ways before you care.
So no, Black people do not owe white America more patience. They do not owe us perfect wording. They do not owe us calm voices. They do not owe us gentle lessons. They do not owe us forgiveness on demand. They do not owe us a damn thing. We owe them. Truth. Listening. Repair. Protection when racists show their asses. More than hashtags, empty posts, and soft little speeches about unity.
Because unity without justice is just white people asking Black people to suffer quietly. Peace without accountability is just silence with better branding. And “moving on” without repair is just telling Black people to bury the harm so white people can feel comfortable walking over the grave.
I am a white man, and I am telling other white people plainly: Stop being so damn fragile. Stop turning every conversation about racism into a funeral for your feelings. Stop acting like being corrected is oppression. Stop pretending Black anger is the problem instead of the racism that caused it. Stop demanding kindness from people this country has been cruel to for centuries. Stop asking Black people to prove pain white America has spent generations producing.
You understand enough. You just do not like what understanding requires. It means challenging your friends. Your parents. Your coworkers. Your church. Your politics. Your neighborhood. Yourself. And that is where most white people fold. Not because they cannot learn. Because they do not want to pay the social price of telling the truth around other white people. That is cowardice. Dress it up however you want. Call it “keeping the peace.” Call it “not getting political.” Call it “seeing both sides.” It is cowardice. And Black people have paid for white cowardice long enough.
So to Black America, from a white man who is still learning but refuses to lie about what is obvious: You are not crazy. You are not too angry. You are not too loud. You are not imagining it. You are not making everything about race. This country made everything about race, then got mad when you learned how to read the room. Your exhaustion makes sense. Your distrust makes sense. Your rage makes sense. Your boundaries make sense. Your refusal to coddle white feelings makes perfect damn sense.
And no matter how many white people roll their eyes, deflect, deny, mock, gaslight, or cry victim, the truth is still the truth: Black people have been carrying the weight. White America has been carrying the excuses. And it is time for white people to put the excuses down, shut the hell up, and start doing the work.
See video here: https://fb.watch/I3DfDL1eUL/
SATURDAY- 07/04/26 – VENTURA – Join Justice for All and Indivisible at the 4th of July St. Fair (10:00 pm – 4:00 pm) Chestnut and Fir
