Category: Represent Our Resistance

capitalism in America, make no mistake, is nothing short of the promotion of its citizen's acceptance of cruelty and indifference. Going about our business while ignoring the suffering of others struggling to survive within a mileu of systemic injustice, isn't pursuing a life worth living.

That until there no longer First class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the nuns made sure to educate us by presenting us with documentaries featuring the sword - wielding crusaders, ridding the world of evil doers. When it wasn’t the heroic faces of those whose skin matched that of our teachers/religious guardians, the nuns and priests, it was dark-skinned “Africans” we were made to look upon with pity.

Racism is an event: someone calling a black the N-word or the sudden appearance of a noose at an office were a few blacks work. Racism is something that is perpetuated by racists. Everyone knows this! Every one! White supremacy then has nothing to do with the majority of good Americans, who are not offended by “black” music or who converse at lunchtime with a Latina co-worker or who accept the black daughter-in-law.

It was demanded of all white men to own firearms, to carry firearms, to patrol the “beat.” The “beat,” a night-time job, required men white men to apprehend “any and all Negroes who were not in their proper places.” If “free” or runaway, the person is “taken before a justice of the peace.”

the now of a Trump, announcing the death of the American dream. Don’t worry! America needs me to revive it. Me, the self-made billionaire. And by “American dream,” he means the latter version, the one in which it’s required of the nation and everyone in it to turn inward.

the story of these underage girls, women in their 20s and 30s now refuses to die behind a door of silence. The women decide to become audible, transgress the norm to remain representative of all that is “unspoken.”

What do the white students of Wisconsin learn about their responsibility toward ensuring social justice prevails as opposed to learning how to be competitive toward the racial other, exclude the racial other because all are “criminal,” a threat, until proven “dead” to resistance? What do these students learn and observe from friends and neighbors?

Americans in the United States have to be reminded that white supremacy is the foundational bedrock of this nation. In almost two years now, since Trump’s ascendancy to head entrepreneur of white supremacy, Americans (and the world) have listened to a barrage of racist language from the president and racists and their supporters who have been waiting for the lifting of restrictions on their right to speak openly about people of color.

The Station Agent shows us individuals who are not lonely people but rather individuals mature enough to be comfortable in the silence - how else to engage in contemplation? Self-reflection? The appreciation of silence is what each respects in the other, it’s what makes being in the company of each other special.