And the Good Fight Goes On
Jan. 14th, 2019 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raesoflightFriday was the first re-uniting of the old Bernie Sanders group from 2016, and while a migraine prevented me from staying for the entire meeting, a lot of the old problems from the 2016 group remained, and I hope that going forward we can correct those mistakes before we start repeating them enmasse.
The good: All the really crazy (and I mean batshit fucking loco) members of the 2016 group are gone. Mostly down the q/anon rabbit hole on reddit--and good goddamn riddance.
The bad: There isn't a single POC in the entire group, and as far as I know, no one has tried to reach out to the local BLM chapter. That was the biggest mistake from 2016 in our group specifically-- it was a bunch of older white people who were very awkward addressing POC, and that alienated a lot of potential support from neighboring groups-- it prevented us from pooling resources and really making a big statement in an area as racist and backwards as this one.
Goals for the next meeting: Broach the subject of contacting the local BLM chapter, get that line of communication up and running ASAP. ("Local" might be a few counties away but fuck it, it's something. I refuse to let the same mistakes plagued us then, haunt us now.)
The good: All the really crazy (and I mean batshit fucking loco) members of the 2016 group are gone. Mostly down the q/anon rabbit hole on reddit--and good goddamn riddance.
The bad: There isn't a single POC in the entire group, and as far as I know, no one has tried to reach out to the local BLM chapter. That was the biggest mistake from 2016 in our group specifically-- it was a bunch of older white people who were very awkward addressing POC, and that alienated a lot of potential support from neighboring groups-- it prevented us from pooling resources and really making a big statement in an area as racist and backwards as this one.
Goals for the next meeting: Broach the subject of contacting the local BLM chapter, get that line of communication up and running ASAP. ("Local" might be a few counties away but fuck it, it's something. I refuse to let the same mistakes plagued us then, haunt us now.)
