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babylonsister

(171,056 posts) Sun Apr 5, 2020, 09:28 AM Apr 2020

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What if?

What If?
What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?
What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born?
What if the story of America is one long labor?
What if all of our grandfathers and grandmothers are standing behind us now, those who survived occupation and genocide, slavery and Jim Crow, detentions and political assault?
What if they are whispering in our ears “You are brave”?
What if this is our nation’s greatest transition?
What does the midwife tell us to do?
BREATHE
And then?
PUSH!

~ Valarie Kaur

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What if? (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2020 OP

Only with extermination of the GOP/Trumpism HAB911 Apr 2020 #1

Push out th repugs, bring in Democrats. lark Apr 2020 #2

HAB911

(8,880 posts)

1. Only with extermination of the GOP/Trumpism

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 09:43 AM

Apr 2020

can we experience the rebirth of our nation

we can do it

lark

(23,091 posts)

2. Push out th repugs, bring in Democrats.

Reply to HAB911 (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:08 AM

Apr 2020

They are the bad diseased air that has to be expelled before the organism (USA) can survive and thrive.

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