Today was a day... especially for checking up on my Minneapolis people. It has been so heavy lately. There was the middle-of-the night shooting of Rep. Hortman, her spouse, and Gilbert and then the daytime Annunciation school shooting. This morning on a residential street, ICE randomly shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in the head and did not allow her any medical assistance (they threatened the physician who offered to provide medical assistance with a gun); she died. What are you supposed to do when masked goons with no ID surround your car? If they're shooting white people now, the fascism has really escalated.
She was a human being. She was there as an observer. She was innocent (if that matters). She was a citizen (if that matters). She was a parent. Her six-year-old's father died in 2023, so this child is truly orphaned.
Renee Nicole (Macklin) Good was a poet. She won a prize for this poem.
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Oh, it is such a terrible thing. I sometimes feel like I have lost the ability to be shocked by the news but no, then I am shocked anew.
This is just too much. (How many times a week do I say "this is just too much." I cannot wrap my brain around the cruelty.
Between Venezuela and this, it has been a devastating week.
I am heart broken. I did not realize the child's father died in 2023. OMG. This is madness. My friend's kids attend a Spanish Immersion school 4 blocks from the shooting and were in lockdown for most of the day. Her older son's classmates had his father taken away. This is just TOO MUCH. Our kids school is closed today/tomorrow out of an abundance of caution. We are in a very safe area since it's, well, affluent. But my heart is hurting for my city and I don't see how this will be resolved. I HATE Noem. She is spewing such lies about the kinds of people being captured, too. They pretend to care about Venezuela but then will detain Venezuelans who fled their country to come to the US. It's MADNESS.
I'm shocked, dismayed, and saddened that I've lost my ability to be shocked by this administration. It hasn't even been a year. What will it take?
Why is this okay with so many people?
I hate this. I hate it all. I just got all upset about Gilbert all over again. My friend was delivering food to a mostly Spanish-speaking neighborhood in a major city in the US recently and she found a woman holding a two day old. She'd delivered the baby at home with the help of her MIL because she was scared that if she went to the hospital, the baby would be taken away or she would be arrested or detained. The mom and baby have had no post-natal care. This is what we're doing to human beings.
I hate this.
Take care.
I’m so angry, and kind of scared, and frustrated, and heartbroken. What the hell. And the administration’s response is beyond the pale. I try not to hate people, but I hate these people.
Thank you for sharing Renee's poem. <3
There is no language that can adequately encompass this horror. Every new thing makes me think, I shouldn't be MORE devastated, because everything up until this was devastating enough. But there seems like there's no bottom to this abyss.
The double-speak and hypocrisy are maddening. I think that's the point sometimes :/
Friends, let's take care of ourselves and each other. As you've said--this seems unfathomable... until tomorrow brings a fresh atrocity.
I think that's what makes and keeps us human when so many seem to have lost that quality, Nicole <3
No, Jeanie--neither can I. I feel like lines are being crossed every day.
Yes... Honestly the proximity of this horror slipped Venezuela from my mind. That is terrible as 80 people died there...
I'm buoyed by yesterday's protests and the possibility of change at the midterms... but when you say "it hasn't even been a year"
Oh, Nance--the desperation I felt at reading that!
Oh, wow, Engie... That poor woman! We are taking people back to the dark ages!
Let's do something to honor Gilbert when we meet <3
Thank you
I know you always channel all of this into something positive, dynamic, and progressive, J. I look forward to learning form you and being a support in the meantime, if possible XOXO
That poor little dreamer... I felt it was a way to honor her; thanks for reading, Suzanne <3
It was. It was already more than devastating "enough." I'd not thought of it like that... Hugs thanks for empathizing from enlightened climes.
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