racism is a huge sociatal trauma. you can't subjucate peoples for centuries without that leaving a mark, on both sides. for the oppressors side, they have to deal with the guilt somehow. coming to face with it, is a big first step. too big a step for most. it doesn't help with that, then, that our entire culture seems one big defense mechanism for looking away and lulling us into thinking we're okay. the best in fact, so that's why we just can go on, for instance, with these colonial wars, with drones, diplomacy and the old fashioned kind Trump favors. and we say black and brown people are just mistaking when they're bringing up racism. or they're told, the ugly liberal way, that they should bring their message nicely, thus putting the onus on them. us never changing, them always having to explain themselves they're people too.
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I got 49 votes and I'm very happy about that: about my, our and all the The Hague votes I won't be in the city council because I needed 1108 votes for that. Five people overall did make city council with personal votes. From my party, GreenLeft, no one did. GreenLeft will be on the council with 2 seats. You can find out everything there is to know about all the votes through the excelfile here: http://denhaag.nl/home/bewoners/to/Definitieve-uitslag-gemeenteraadsverkiezingen-1.htm . -Here I didn't translate about what different amounts of votes for people on our list mean to me.- 49 vote is very decent, looking at all the different votes for people. Every vote shows support, so I'm very grateful for that. I didn't campaign too hard for myself. Except for in some specific instances: with friends and family and in my (mostly informal) little networks. After talking to people I gave them my campaigning postcard. But often I didn't: for instance after I...
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