Do you want to feel safe and sorrowful?

Do you want to feel safe and full of shame?

At the sacrifices made because of your demographics concerns?

I don't. I'm tired of feeling like that.

I don't want to feel like that anymore, and I certainly don't want my kids to feel like that.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant Suit Politics, the home of grace-filled political conversations.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Pant Suit Politics. Today, we're going to talk about the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the hurricane in Texas and Louisiana, and the first three nights of the Republican National Convention.

As happened last week, the convention is not working very well with our schedule, so we're going to talk about the first three nights that we've watched.

We will watch tonight, we're recording on Thursday, the final night, with hopefully many of you on Hot Mic.

And if there's anything else we want to mention about that, we will do so on social media or on the show next week.

But today, we're going to just cover what we've seen so far. I think we have a pretty good feel for what the thesis is from the RNC, and so we'll dive into that.

Before we get started, we do want to talk about Hurricane Laura.

This was a category four hurricane that hit the coast of Texas and Louisiana.

And we are just sending all our love and light to that area of the country. These storms are getting more intense.

We're here celebrating the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

And the governors are finding more intense ways of saying, no, for real, you guys, you have to evacuate.

And it sounds like a lot of people listened. There will still be a massive amount of property damage, and there are already reports that several Americans have lost their lives.

And so we're just thinking about the people of Texans and Louisiana right now.

We're also thinking about the people of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and particularly Jacob Blake and his family, and everyone who is struggling in the unrest that has followed the shooting of Jacob Blake.

You know, I have been really moved several of the email newsletters that I follow showed a particular business owner boarding up his business and then painting something beautiful on the front.

And talking about how he really wants people to have a different view of his town.

This is a hard moment because reporting on it is challenging. It is easy to say we have protest that turn violent.

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