Activism – Kari Kopnick

Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Never Read the Comments

I read the comments. I know I’m not supposed to. I know that proper mental health hygiene calls for never reading the comments. I think this advice applies to not only press articles online but also on the “stand up and have your say” commentary that people post these days on social media. Because ofContinue reading “Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Never Read the Comments”

Oh, no. Hate Mail.

I got my first hate mail today. It’s 2017 so it was hate email. And it was really only a little hate-y. It’s not bothering me. I have been taught that the discomfort that I feel as a White person when I am confronted with the hard truth about the prizes and kickbacks I get in this worldContinue reading “Oh, no. Hate Mail.”

Doing it Wrong

So how do I, a White person, work on fighting white supremacy without, you know, trying to smear my white privilege all over and muck it up? I get a little frozen here, sometimes. OK, all the time. Because I don’t want to do it wrong. I don’t want to do something to make more trouble,Continue reading “Doing it Wrong”

FIGHT LIKE HELL!

I’m wearing my favorite Hillary campaign t-shirt. No, not because I live in some dream land where Hillary is president. I don’t. I live right here in Trump’s America where the time I spend in lovely downtown Huntington Beach, California is with a protest sign and a threat that the police will arrest me if IContinue reading “FIGHT LIKE HELL!”