White folks - as you sort through your feels, I wanna encourage you do something. Take time to hold the reality of how hellish today has been for Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, MENA, & other people of color.

White people stormed & occupied the US Capital with no consequence.
Police held the hands of terrorists and cared for their bodies as they escorted them away.

This is gaslighting AF for all those detained, arrested, incarcerated, and killed by the police/policing for simply daring to exist or demanding to be treated equitably.
This feels like a sick deja vu for those who've fled their ancestral lands because of the US govt's support & catalyzation of similar insurrections around the world.

We're sitting here wrestling with complex emotions because we saw seditious actors treated w/ care we are denied.
So white folks, while you may feel scared & angry & grieve, the vast majority of you do not feel these things as we do. You do not know what it's like to watch terrorism unfold w/tepid intervention knowing that you standing up for your right to exist could mean your literal death
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