I did such a good job not posting about my vacation while I was away from home that I forgot to mention that I got a staff-led tour of the US Capitol
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started
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Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴 Not a Democrat anymore. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
![Posts by the now-blocking user LA Legault about my posts on “say her name” and misogynoir:
[Post] swear to god who sent her? Is someone fucking with me?
She is arguing "Say her name."
Which is not "we shall overcome"
To have the luxury of being a spoiled American brat in the middle of fascism.
[Reply] No I am blocking her, I cannot take this bullshit from [US flag]
[Reply 2] Sticking to the gay hockey that country has lost its fucking mind
[Post] SAY RENNE NICOLE GOOD'S NAME.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkenmeipfagqf2d3sb4mmob/bafkreiey4zgqn22gon2v2ccgv7glqfkgdolleytep5647lclhf5cyap2gy)
![The original posts by the now-blocking user LA Legault about my posts on “say her name” and misogynoir:
[Post] BkueSky is the Seattle house's worst roommate half the time. Holy shit. No one owns "say her name." Her name needs to be said.
[Reply] This is the most fucking ridiculous thing I have heard, Americans are ridiculous.
[Post] No one owns "say her name" this is ridiculous.
[Reply] It's misogynistic insanity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkenmeipfagqf2d3sb4mmob/bafkreibiosziatn2jpi3verphiwdrs4n3yu3wosfgfnffjfxwplaxrokau)
![An excerpt of a column from Jackie Robinson in The Amsterdam News from November 9, 1963, titled “Fascinating Republicans:” […] already highly charged issue: laws alone cannot produce the full result we need."
Well, personally, I give less than a you-can-guess-what that some white people's emotions are going to run rampant because we want to insure our freedom." Our emotions have run pretty high when we have seen lynchings and our children bombed in churches.
As for the familiar crack about laws not being the end-all. I have to go along with Dr. Martin King in observing that "laws cannot make the white man love me. but they can keep him from lynching me-and I think that's fairly important."
I think it is also important for the Negro people to keep a wary eye on the Republicans-some Republicans like Goldwater. Dirksen, Nixon and Mr. Eisenhower. In parting, let me remind General Eisenhower that if he had used gradualism and moderation on D-Day on the beachheads of Europe, we wouldn't have to worry about civil rights. We just wouldn't be here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkenmeipfagqf2d3sb4mmob/bafkreier63wmtwwuipusdoruurbgiaaxecbk4wyozw2km75gfyigfy5iyy)
![A screenshot of a digitized article from the December 6, 1860 issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch: Slavery an evil.
One of the ablest of the conservative journals of New York, in an earnest advocacy of the Southern cause, says that no one denies that slavery is an evil, but that it is an evil which cannot be got rid of by violent or unjust means.
Now, we beg leave to dissent totally from this declaration that no one denies that slavery is an evil. On the contrary, in this very city of New York, the foremost man of all its law, Chas.
O'Conor, emphatically denies that it is an evil, and there are tens of thousands in that noble city, both in church and State, who hold that slavery has the sanction of Almighty God, in His revelation to man, that it was no evil to the Jews, and is no evil to our own countrymen. The ablest Scriptural argument ever heard on slavery was in a free State from a New Yorker. In many parts of the North, and even in New England, there are thousands of men who agree in opinion with Chas. O'Conor. As to the South, the time has long gone by when anybody considered it an evil. In what respects is it an evil - moral, social or political! Compare the people of the Southern States with those of any other community, and we challenge all history to produce a higher- toned population, more honest, honorable, humane, and just in all the relations of life. Take the single State of South Carolina, in which there has not been a divorce since the foundation of the government, and show what respect slavery has proved a moral and social evil to the whites on the one hand, or, on the other, to the blacks, who, under slavery, have become elevated from savage barbarians to civilized and Christian men, and are most of them far superior in character to the abolition senators, editors and orators of the country. We do not know a single member of the African Church in this city, who is not a better Christian and gentleman at this moment than Horace Greeley, [etc.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkenmeipfagqf2d3sb4mmob/bafkreia3yvewvplpl55c3acz76zvmhwpfwwuqvx4xzyxxtngks4ttlvhbq)
![A screenshot of a Patreon post from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue: For the first two years of conflict, the Union preferred to leave the inciting factors intact rather than openly challenge the slave system for fear that they would alienate the people who started a war [emphasis] rather than accept a fairly elected, majoritarian, not pro-slavery government. The North refused to see what was blatantly in front of them: That only complete concession and full acceptance of slaver terms-forever-would compel a return to order. And such a win would be no win at all.
It is our turn to do better. Our opponents want a world of unstable and unnatural hierarchies that would dispose of the vast majority of human potential for the sake of protecting their egos and wealth-not a far cry from maintaining slavery to "preserve order." Over and over again, leadership insists upon telling this contingent that they are valid, that their desires are more important, that nothing will meaningfully change. In response, these people adhere to a fascist strongman who promises to abandon treaties and violate promises, perpetrate human rights abuses against citizens and noncitizens alike, and break the government so that only his political philosophy will reign.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkenmeipfagqf2d3sb4mmob/bafkreig4mfplz5sqmbaoc42qsd566x3whsiid3pmq7angxjbjxe5xxp46q)
