I have to wonder who all of this messaging from Democrats that people are calling for is meant to influence [View all]

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...especially at this point in our history when the choice between parties couldn't be clearer.

It's not just that our Democratic party dependably produces for the country what the republican party is now wantonly and self-interestedly tearing down.

It's that the republican opposition which has long revealed itself as a grifting danger to even the interests they say they care about is now either trying to own you or kill you.

I've been fighting for decades rally support for life and death issues involving law enforcement abuses against black communities from both republican and Democratic interests. No one needs to remind me of the need for advocacy.

What has always been lacking are people willing to listen which may be a consequence of their personal lives never intersecting with any of the terror, violence, and injustice that so many in this country have suffered at the hands of the government.

Indeed, this very crisis where Americans are being executed in the streets by federal agents was enabled by the acquiescence of so many in each party, and in so many quarters of America, to the racism and xenophobia that has compelled the vindictive and antagonistic portrayals of immigrants, even undocumented individuals, who without question contribute more socially and even economically to America than they take from us.

Did we forget that the adjunct to the Trump deportation scheme is to claim their militarization is to control mostly black communities under the pretext of fighting crime?

That dangerous escalation of the military into our communities doesn't just impact black Americans, but the acquiescence to it all began with a surrender to the notion in the first place with both parties voting for militarizing police forces, then having to try and claw it all back when the communities exploded in protest over wanton killings of unarmed black youth in the streets by police forces provoking them and targeting them as if in a war.

How many in America who maybe didn't resemble or relate to people affected by the violence just sit on their hands assuming it was someone else other than them at risk?

That's where I am, and I'm wondering if folks get this. This movement against government murder that looks to be emerging isn't something new, except in the race and ethnicity of the victims we're defending, and I have a hard time believing that Americans wouldn't just turn away if it was a brown-skinned person.

I think it's important and welcome that so many are waking up to the realization that their government is conspiring against and threatening Americans lives and livelihoods. But I can't pretend they haven't already been told this, repeatedly until we were exhausted.

We've never stopped telling them.

They didn't want to listen, but, perhaps they'll listen now.