Resistance Series: What is Resistance?
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🗓️ 7 March 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Truth's Table with Michelle, Christina and a Kennedy. |
| 0:19.7 | The topic on the table today is Resistance. Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America, |
| 0:27.0 | there have been cries for millions of Americans to resist this Trump administration, |
| 0:32.0 | his cabinet picks and his policies, |
| 0:33.9 | among other issues. |
| 0:35.4 | This resistance galvanized millions of people |
| 0:37.8 | to voice their opposition at the Women's March |
| 0:39.8 | and the protests against Trump's Muslim ban at airports all around the country. |
| 0:46.7 | On Wednesday, January 25, 2016, |
| 0:50.6 | 2017, Greenpeace activists hung a 70-foot banner inscribed with the word resist from a crane a few blocks behind the White House |
| 1:00.0 | So I'm asking y'all, what are you resisting today? |
| 1:04.0 | On any particular level, I'm like, the list is wrong. |
| 1:10.0 | Just today, anything that happened this morning, you're like, nah, I'm resisting not today. |
| 1:14.6 | There's sort of this weird tending to normalize this idea that our president is kind of a Twitter feigned and I am sort of cracking up, |
| 1:30.0 | cracking up at the temptation that I have fallen into to just have some kind of peace, |
| 1:37.0 | just sort of mental ability to exhale deeply when every day, every other hour I'm feeling like, |
| 1:48.0 | Lord, I want to turn everything off, but I also want to know what's going on. |
| 1:53.0 | There's so much, I mean there's so much going on where I'm like now I am even resisting the presumption that I am entitled to constant feeling of all as well. |
| 2:07.0 | And I know that seems so cliche, but that's to me what resistance has become. |
| 2:12.0 | You don't, you're not entitled to to know and to feel |
| 2:15.8 | 100% all the time that all is well while so many people are suffering and while |
| 2:21.0 | so much mess no matter how laughable there is still so much |
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