Patty

“In 2022, two political scientists, Eitan Hersh and Laura Royden, published the most comprehensive study ever of the relationship between Americans’ views about politics and their views about Jews. They found that “antisemitic views are far more common on the right than on the left.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

“The answer to such bigotry should be clear: Americans are not responsible for foreign governments or organizations just because they have a common ancestry. There was nothing inherent in being German American in the 1910s that made you a supporter of the kaiser’s Germany and nothing inherent in being Japanese American in the 1940s that made you a supporter of imperial Japan. Similarly, there is nothing inherent in being Chinese American today that makes you favor the People’s Republic of China or in being Palestinian American that makes you approve of Hamas. Supporting foreign governments or organizations is a political choice, not an intrinsic expression of one’s ethnic or religious identity.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

“This was real life. And the beginning of a special regular story where two people meet and help each other make something beautiful, at the risk of making a mess.

No this ain't no movie. This is a mirror. This me. This her. This us.

This is real.”
― Jason Reynolds, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .

“Like, to hold a hand the way we held yours as a child, with a full grip, that feels like a gesture of safety. To hold hands with each other's fingers woven together can sometimes feel like a gesture of desperation. But the way y'all were yesterday-your pinky just barely curled around hers-well, to me, that feels...intimate.”
― Jason Reynolds, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .