Don't get me wrong. I absolutely welcome the epiphanies [View all]

...from white republicans who seem to have just now caught onto the fact that their government is terrorizing and killing people in this country, including citizens, in the wake of two people who aren't immigrants of brown-skinned slaughtered by federal agents.

I understand that these are people who have made a generational stand against immigrants and others who don't look like them have long felt comfortable in their apparent belief that their anti-immigration politics; as well as their anti-American ignorance about decades and decades of deadly assaults by police forces against communities and individuals of color; or their party's demonizing of LGBTQ communities and individuals, even as those innocent victims became targets of the guns their party refuses to regulate.

I also get that most of them actually just want to go back to the day when they operated their racism and bigotry with more of a wink and a nod, than with the fire hoses and attack dogs their ilk used in their youth against people seeking civil rights in this country.

But you know, it's something, more than nothing. I mean, here I am looking back with some favor on the days when we were fighting and gaining ground in an era of decimation and denial. That's how far we've sunk.

I welcome their words, and suggest we now endeavor to hold them to them. That's how I remember we did it in the past, moving cautiously out of centuries of repression and building coalitions of support to keep us moving forward.

I welcome their epiphanies.

I welcome their awokenness.