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Last election, I was still working at Berkeley, watching the results come in with my students. When we saw which way it was going to go, we decided to walk around our residence hall complex to check in on everyone.
We found so many students who were in tears, frightened, terrified, shocked, in disbelief. Some of them were international students who didn& #39;t know what would happen to them next. And my students, who were awesome, compassionate RAs, didn& #39;t know what to do.
I didn& #39;t know what to do, and it was my job to know what to do. I don& #39;t think I cried until I was alone that night, heartbroken for my students, who voted in their first election, to everyone who was weighed down by the uncertainty of the future.
We sat there and watched a country that always held so much hate--and such a great propensity for hate--finally show what it had always been. It was overwhelming, and awful, and demoralizing, and terrifying, heartbreaking, so many things
**I should add finally show what it had always been very publicly, because...there were definitely people and places that were never trying to hide it, but that most of us willfully ignored because we had the privilege and ability to do so
So now, we& #39;re faced with an interesting time. I& #39;ll be celebrating like I& #39;m at the end of a Star Wars trilogy. But I really do hope people start to reconcile with the rampant ugliness that was allowed to govern so openly in the last four years.
Like really, really examine everything and everyone that led us to that point, so we don& #39;t let history repeat again (which we love to do in this country, let& #39;s be real).
I don& #39;t want to have to make another status in four years about how devastated I am for myself and everyone around me. I don& #39;t want to have to make another status in eight years repeating every point I& #39;ve made in this one. But I& #39;m so scared that I will.
So let& #39;s celebrate, yes. And celebrate the organizers and awesome folks who helped us get to this point. And let& #39;s find as many ways as we can to not let this shit happen again, because damn. Once was enough.
**I should add celebrate the awesome organizers and then also help them! If anyone has donation links please drop them because there& #39;s still two run-offs that need to be won!
