If we are silent and inactive, then we are complicit.
The humanitarian immigration crisis that the Trump Administration has created is illegal, unconscionable, and reprehensible. Our government has separated children from their families and relocated them across the United States. The audiotapes of the children crying and the visual images of children caged are outrageous. President Trump has tasked the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Defense to incarcerate thousands of immigrants. There is no end of resources for evil.
The thought of comparing the United States of America with Nazi Germany is frightening, but the current similarities are real. During a rally in Philadelphia this week, the protesters collected children’s shoes and piled them together much like those on display at Auschwitz in Poland. This is sickening. Seeing the pictures of children who had been separated from their families being escorted down a dark street during the night is nothing short of forced relocation. This is our country. What are we going to do?
“Yes, n’ how many times can a man turn his head
pretending that he just doesn’t see?”
Bob Dylan
In 1787 “We the people of the United States…establish(ed) this Constitution for the United States of America.” In 2018 we the people are responsible for upholding the values and moral authority of the United States of America. So I ask that we speak and act from our hearts. We have many options including contacting our Representatives and Senators in Congress and volunteering for and financially supporting organizations whose missions align with our values of civil and human rights. And there is #RESIST. (I have my cap, do you?) Marches will be held across the country on June 3oth. I have signed up to attend the march in Philadelphia. If you are interested in showing up close to your home, at the border, or in Washington, D.C., go to www.familiesbelongtogether.org I’ll see you there.
Rebecca Pott Fitton
June 21, 2018
The thought of comparing the United States of America with Nazi Germany is frightening, but the current similarities are real. During a rally in Philadelphia this week, the protesters collected children’s shoes and piled them together much like those on display at Auschwitz in Poland. This is sickening. Seeing the pictures of children who had been separated from their families being escorted down a dark street during the night is nothing short of forced relocation. This is our country. What are we going to do?
“Yes, n’ how many times can a man turn his head
pretending that he just doesn’t see?”
Bob Dylan
In 1787 “We the people of the United States…establish(ed) this Constitution for the United States of America.” In 2018 we the people are responsible for upholding the values and moral authority of the United States of America. So I ask that we speak and act from our hearts. We have many options including contacting our Representatives and Senators in Congress and volunteering for and financially supporting organizations whose missions align with our values of civil and human rights. And there is #RESIST. (I have my cap, do you?) Marches will be held across the country on June 3oth. I have signed up to attend the march in Philadelphia. If you are interested in showing up close to your home, at the border, or in Washington, D.C., go to www.familiesbelongtogether.org I’ll see you there.
Rebecca Pott Fitton
June 21, 2018
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