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What We Should Say Instead At a recent gathering of Black Christian leaders, the Reverend Traci Blackmon made a point that can be helpful right now. She spoke about a house in the Palisades area of Los Angeles that survived the horrific fires that roared across the region. The house stood when many others burned. The house’s owner had fortified it to withstand the fire. It was built for it. Instead of saying “We’ve been here before”, we should say “We’re built for this” As people of faith and those committed to democratic principles, we are built for this. We are built to resist injustice, to forge new pathways for progress, and to withstand the temporary triumph of unscrupulous leaders. True, not all of us have prepared for this moment. Some people have a basic foundation, but will still need to do a lot of work to truly encounter this moment with courage and boldness. Others of us, though, have been fighting, resisting, and persevering for a very long time.

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What We Should Say Instead At a recent gathering of Black Christian leaders, the Reverend Traci Blackmon made a point that can be helpful right now. She spoke about a house in the Palisades area of Los Angeles that survived the horrific fires that roared across the region. The house stood when many others burned. The house’s owner had fortified it to withstand the fire. It was built for it. Instead of saying “We’ve been here before”, we should say “We’re built for this” As people of faith and those committed to democratic principles, we are built for this. We are built to resist injustice, to forge new pathways for progress, and to withstand the temporary triumph of unscrupulous leaders. True, not all of us have prepared for this moment. Some people have a basic foundation, but will still need to do a lot of work to truly encounter this moment with courage and boldness. Others of us, though, have been fighting, resisting, and persevering for a very long time.
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Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:22:39 JST Erin Conroy

Very good points.
And, it's important to remember that while the houses that survived the fire did so because their architects & builders had taken care to prepare them, they also needed luck,. This important for us to remember. Take everything so seriously, and remind yourself history is contingent on what you do, and what I do. Nothing in the social and political world is self-executing. You may have grown up in a world that felt that way, so you slacked off. No more!
https://substack.com/home/post/p-155799722

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