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There is one more thing. For my US friends.

The Constitution, to some extent, means something for only one reason: the people agree to it.

You know what legal laws are. And you know what illegal, immoral, unjust laws are. The time has come to stand up and make the Constitution mean what it says.

Make certain every birth is registered as a new US citizen. If the government won't do it...someone else get on it. How do you think the government got *started*?

They can't make the 14th Amendment not apply, if you the people refuse to let them do that.

We who are white have been complicit for too long. We need to start standing up for the principles, the morals, we profess: that we respect personal liberty, that we want equity AND equality, that we do not consent to those rights being withdrawn from *anyone* anymore.

We can assess our guilt each of us as people who've benefited from whiteness.

Later.

But first...start FIXING things. Guilt and feeling crappy can come later, and probably should.

The Canadian flag doesn't mean the same to me that it once did, since Reconciliation began, and I started facing what happened for me to live here now: that a few hundred years ago, I'd have been part of the group starting that horror in motion.

Not Indigenous peoples. Not migrants. Not citizens. Not Black citizens. Not any person should have their rights violated by the government *you* the people built.

The rebellion - it was better than a revolution, actually, revolutions are really, really dangerous and a lot of people get killed - it was the substitution of one government for another. No interregnum, as it were. A better one, hopefully.

It can be, but you have to believe it. And live it. And as a fellow once said, "Make it so."