Why I March On

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I'm a retired teacher but I haven't stopped asking questions.

Are we still holding minors in detention centers to satisfy the bloodlust of a vile apparatchik?
Do millions of kids go to school everyday wondering if today’s the day they’ll be gunned down by a white male lunatic? Are their schools grossly underfunded but expected to arm teachers?

 Are unarmed black men still being shot in cold blood by police officers and vigilantes while sex crimes, trafficking, and domestic violence that affect women disproportionally go uninvestigated, unpunished, and unreported? 

 Is cruelty the point of domestic and international policy because doing the intelligent, compassionate thing is too complicated for the Republican base?

 Are “know-nothing” politicians and their corporate cronies destroying the conditions for multicellular life on the planet?

 Do we trample our First Nations peoples shouting "America First" BS?

Must mothers continue to teach their daughters to fear men but, above all, to fear their own bodies and selves?

 Does my silence abet the dismantling of our flawed but aspirational civil institutions and help create a political climate friendly to white nationalism, voter suppression, mass incarceration, and piecemeal desecularization of the state?

 I march on because the answer to each of these questions is yes.

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