Nice For What: what it really means to ask for civility from the oppressed

Niceness, something we teach our kiddos when they are growing up in order to keep peace on the playground, is now being used as a rallying cry against those who are being oppressed by this current administration.

Representative Maxine Waters is one of the many sounding the alarm on Trump since his name fell on the election ballot. Recently, she encouraged the citizenry to stand up to the Trump administration following White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being denied service at a restaurant. Rep. Waters (aka Auntie Maxine) said “If you see anybody from that cabinet…you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they are not welcome.”

Oh, the fallout! Given what the President has said, you would think we wouldn’t be having a discussion about this. But the people felt some type of way. I expected Trump and his people to feel aways (after all bullies always feel a ways about being challenged on their turf). Where the surprising is that the Democrats, who are seriously not stepping up in this prime season ripe for a democratic comeback, rallied to condemn