found online by Raymond
From nojo at Stinque:
There’s a line that’s been going around the past week, a line of shock and disbelief, a line you hear accompanying reports of what we do to families — especially children — seeking asylum at our border:
“This is not who we are.”
This is certainly not who we believed we were, those of us who have enjoyed the luxury of living their lives in complete ignorance of what we do, what we’ve done, what we’ve always done, to people who are not us, not white, not male, not wealthy. We’ve turned our heads, looked away, preferred the sweet music to the discordant reality, preferred to yearn for a past that never was instead of working toward a future that can be better.
This is who we are.