Regardless of your opinions on Palestine/israel, or even the protests on campuses… 

What I can’t get out of my head are videos I’ve seen of police geared up more than soldiers in Afghanistan beating young college women and girls with batons and pepper spray as they hold their hands up. 

The military police state in the U.S. has been quite robust for some time, regardless of the administration in power at federal and state levels. Our obsession with violence and power in our highest institutions is an irreversible stain as large as slavery was to the inception of our nation. 

This is nothing new, but it’s so painful to see every time.