Michael Mitchell: Archive

It's personal, not political. A fucking Facebook post is more effective at fighting against or supporting this issue than attacking ICE agents.

Before anyone is willing to go this far, it must affect them as an individual. It must be a very serious factor in their lives, something that matters to their survival, not to their comfort or happiness, and this is not only true in the general sense, when identifying the motives of anyone resorting to violence to (allegedly) achieve or contribute to the acheivement of any political goal, but especially true in the specific sense, when identifying the motives of anyone who commits suicide afterwards.

These individuals aren't hugging trees. They're beyond some perceived point of no return. The alternative to death must be worse than... death! 😆