I wanted to share an experience that I bet I'm not alone in today: I would like to go to the protest that's happening locally and spend time in community mourning but I'm not able to do that because I will be stuck responding to racist policy the White House released last night.

And I think that's where a lot of us are. Caught between responding to a wide array of painful, racist things and having to choose where we'll put our effort and time and feeling like we're letting people down no matter what we do.

And I'm reminded that driving this level of disorganization, this feeling of being stretched too thin, is the point. The goal is to make sure we can't mobilize, can't vote them out, can't organize for real fundamental transformation, because we're too busy living in the response

Toni Morrison said it best:
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do

Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”