Like it or not, it takes courage to get from behind the keyboard or mobile phone screen and get out into the real world in order to participate in REAL LIFE discourse.
Whether it's a pro-Prez Trump rally or yesterday's Kansas City anti-Prez Trump immigration backlash . . . Generally, it's important to realize that the right to peacefully assemble and protest is one of the greatest and defining characteristics of our Democracy.
And then there's the question of expediency . . .
WHAT DID THE KANSAS CITY OPPONENTS OF PREZ-TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN ACCOMPLISH?!?!
The struggle for social justice might be a reward unto itself but here's the reality . . .
- Kansas City lies in betwixt two Red States that OVERWHELMINGLY supported Prez Trump and a GOP political tidal wave that threatens to completely render the opposing and oldest political party in the world almost completely irrelevant beyond even their SUPER-MINORITY status in both houses after a slate of female and lightweight candidates where shut out.
- Where were all these people when immigration authorities were snatching Latinos up left and right without much (if any) resistance??? Think carefully and then remember all the funny parts from Born In East LA!!! Of which there were many . . . And because nobody ever blew up a building with a leaf blower.
- To the credit of protesters . . . This is a policy issue debate that's gonna get boring quickly. TKC is one of the very few people in this discussion that has actually wasted a few days at the immigration detention center out by the airport and all theoretical discussion is a nice distraction from the reality that sorting citizens from non is always an ugly process that's hard to defend when people get a close look at the inherently clumsy and broken undertaking that has ALWAYS been intrinsically unfair and completely random.
Now . . . Let's take another look . . .
CHECK EPIC CITIZEN MEDIA FOOTAGE OF THE RALLY!!!
Kansas City woman among those detained following Trump's executive order
KC doctor and political refugee from Iraq speaks out about immigration ban
You decide . . .
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