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
What is negated is the fact that this same administration was not only ignoring the massive problems occurring around ‘Merica but separating children from their parents to ship them to detention centers, even toddler ones known as “tender age shelters” and deporting the parents before returning the kids to their parents, allowing pregnant women to bleed for hours, even days, resulting in miscarriages, and a number of human rights abuses. And that is what Auntie Maxine was telling us, the citizenry, to push back against.
Their complaint about Auntie Maxine? Her call was not civil. It wasn’t nice. Senators Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and others we thought would stand up for Rep. Waters, backpedaled away from her, even citing our favorite FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, saying “When they go low, we go high.”and how we can disagree without harassing the administration. And I think its BS.
