Statement from Ashley Williams on Hillary Clinton's "apology.

[ellennelle]

93. how do you get justice without apology?

may i suggest you read ta nahisi-coates' brilliant exposition on the need for reparations in the atlantic some months ago.

it's intense reading, but worth every word; the man's a genius. he has much to say on this; apologies are not enough, but they have to happen. they represent your word that you get it and won't let it happen again.

meanwhile, tho, just for your own personal and social interactions and such, you might want to reconsider your position. how do you propose to move toward justice if the perpetrators of the problem cannot even admit their role or own their culpability? given they're the source of the injustice, how does that change if they're not even part of the conversation? you can't begin to pretend to move toward justice without perpetrators accepting responsibility and offering apology!

i would say the clintons are part of the continued perpetuation of the injustices precisely because they've never owned up to their role in the problems.

finally, you might call it grandstanding, but hey howdy, lookie here, the BLM movement has been brought front and center precisely because of that original confrontation at the bernie NN speech.

which, i have to add here, he handled with infinitely more grace, respect, and compassion than hillary showed ashley.