Naomi Shulman makes the post-election case for speaking out.
Rutgers University junior Carimer Andujar shouts to a large crowd gathered to protest some of President elect Donald Trump policies and to ask school officials to denounce his plans at Rutgers University Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves.
I don’t remember the first time I heard the stories my mother told me; I feel like I always knew them. She’s dead now. If she were alive, I imagine she would be quite sanguine; all her anxieties would be realized, so there would no longer be anything left to fear.I thought of my mother’s neighbors right after the election, when apolitical friends of mine breathed a sigh of relief that we could stop talking about politics. “That’s over!” they said happily. “Let’s focus on other things.
But then a white nationalist was named chief strategist to the president-elect. Aren’t you alarmed? I asked.Another friend messaged me privately. She agreed with me, she assured me. She was just as alarmed as I was! “Count me among the silent resistance,” she said.I thought back to the primary, when so many people I knew were quietly supporting Hillary Clinton but refused to say so out loud.
I thought back to the primary, when so many people I knew were quietly supporting Hillary Clinton but refused to say so out loud.She began to cry, so I sat on her bed and told her, “We live in Massachusetts. And we are citizens," I reminded her."We have the least to worry about. And we live in Northampton — a sanctuary city. People who live here are as insulated and safe as can be. You do not need to worry.
I told her this because I am her mother, and I want to quell her fears. But this week our president-electI miss my mother. I am speaking for her now.
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