They title this video "Justice." I post this Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee video today, NOT because I think it is either uplifting or effective. I wish it were; there's plenty of injustice afoot in our MAGA moment to be called out and resisted. Take a look -- it is only one minute. What do you think?
My comments, for what they are worth...
• I love Rachel Maddow. She's a truth teller and smart and informed. But if we are to be enlisted by the long struggle of Black Americans, couldn't they have found a Black narrator?
• The historic footage of beatings and tear gas from the 1960s Civil Rights wave of struggle for Black justice are both moving and striking. They always are. We're certainly living in a moment when similar atrocities are possible -- even likely. Thousands of ordinary citizens have been risking their lives to protest thuggish federal overreach; two demonstrators lost their lives in Minnesota. In this time, a few legislators have gotten a bit of the same treatment -- New Jersey Senator Andy Kim tear gassed just a day ago; California Senator Alex Padilla tackled at an LA courthouse -- both on camera. The outraged Black Congressmen here can't verbally convey an authenticity to match the message of intense struggle implied by the Civil Rights era footage.
• The clip of former President Obama is just weird: he looks exhausted and, dare I say it, simply old. I've seen current clips that aren't like that; couldn't they have found footage with a little more energy?
I don't know whether professional Democratic Party communicators can do better. I wish they would. The Trump shit show certainly demonstrates to all of us that effective resistance has to lead with the people. As the old saying goes, perhaps if the people lead, our leaders will follow.
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