By: Revernd Mother

Revernd Mother
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:48:58 +0000

To “No Thanks” and “Come on” Your reactions are understandable and in some ways admirable except for one thing.

I’ve been a Civil Rights activist since 1963. in all of those years I’ve struggled with feeling incredibly alone, facing one rejection after another and being vilified for the stands that I’ve taken for racial, gender, orientation, gender identity, and now for neural diversity. No one stood beside me because all of us who were in the fight ultimately fought alone. One by one we lost people to burnout and fatigue. Many of us suffer PTSD, myself included, for the traumas that we struggled to overcome. the secret of kindness was hard to find. Such a “secret” as this shouldn’t be secret. A note of encouragement in the midst of the battle, be it on the front line or sitting at one’s studies can mean the world when you feel that you are alone and you have no hope.

This one desk should not be kept a secret. It should be multiplied across campus, across the city, across the state, the nation and the world. There are so many of us suffering. Maybe the encouragements and helps that we need should overwhelm that suffering.