# Will we ever fight back? When will that line be drawn? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-we-ever-fight-back-when-will-that-line-be-drawn/963058 "2022-04-19T15:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-we-ever-fight-back-when-will-that-line-be-drawn/963058/70 "2022-04-21T01:24:14Z")
I’m not sure if this is posted elsewhere, but I thought it might make sense to drop it here. A Michigan state senator gave a pretty badass speech in response to a colleague’s right wing fundraising efforts, which had asserted that she was trying to groom children when she voiced support for civil rights. > [@](#): > > …I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense. > > No child alive today is responsible for slavery. No one is this room is responsible for slavery. But each and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history. We decide what happens next, and how we respond to history and the world around us. > > We are not responsible for the past. We also cannot change the past. We can’t pretend that it didn’t happen, or deny people their very right to exist…. If words have any power, this was a strike at the hateful, and ignorant, rhetoric of the GOP. And it was delivered with some righteousness that made me feel good watching it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iLWo8B1R0MY/maxresdefault.jpg "WATCH: Michigan lawmaker says, ‘We will not let hate win’") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLWo8B1R0MY) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-we-ever-fight-back-when-will-that-line-be-drawn/963058)._