Trying to figure out a reasonable schedule to start posting more consistently, but I'm finding it more difficult to figure out exactly what I want to write about. With the ever-expanding circus freak show that is the white house, it's becoming increasingly hard to pinpoint specific things to write about because:

The administration is constantly changing their narrative. (Meeting about adoption?! Oh really.)
Every day the president agitates a point of friction in our society and attacks the fabric of our democracy which isn't great to begin with so.... (Just look at his Twitter feed of astounding insanity on any given day.)
I'm not sure which perspective to write from considering there are so many ways things are f*cked up, as a poc, as a woman, and as a black woman specifically. (The pay disparity is real.)

I'll figure it out. Actually, there is something!

There's this notion of the "moral integrity" of the US. This country is scraping to figure out where it stands, how to speak about pertinent, complicated issues of race and wealth, and how to have these conversations with civility while still keeping its sanity. I've had so many conversations about how we're going to move past these four years and this seemingly growing divide. The main recurring point is that people need to "understand both sides."

I agree that people need to come to an understanding and that the only way we're going to move forward in this country is if we work together. Yes, we should be open-minded, BUT not when one argument encapsulates the fundamental idea of white supremacy and one doesn't. Republicans have been defending and upholding the proclivities of racism in their policies and silence. Trump continues to operate unchecked by any of his administration or peers. Not one Republican has come forward in defense of the American people. Not one Republican has made any official statements against his damaging rhetoric and undeniable incension of violence. Making sure everyone gets to have a voice is something the country was built on, but it was also built on slavery and the mass killing of indigenous people, internment camps, and a whole host of policies that keep poor people in economic strangleholds.

Republicans, in general, aren't the problem, though, because there are some of them that don't agree with the insanity of the white house. The true people at fault are all of the Republicans & Democrats- people, no matter their political affiliation, in power who have the means to throw a wrench in this system of idiocy, but don't.

It feels like all of the activism might be for naught if the people in power are so selfish, they can't relinquish it for any movement forward. I know there are some groups doing amazing things, but how slowly progress moves in this fast day and age is excruciating.

Anyway, again it's great to have these conversations to figure out how to move forward, but moving forward might also mean restructuring all of these antediluvian policies and figuring out new ways to govern. I think a lot of people are fed up and ready for drastic change.