Good Trouble

Renee Nicole Good was getting into “good trouble” yesterday. However, some self-styled “critical thinkers,” believe that means she caused her own death.

Those same people insist that anyone who watched the very same video and reached a different conclusion must be incapable of independent thought…mere puppets of the media. They mock, belittle, and dismiss, convinced that only they see clearly.

I don’t have the time, patience, or interest to debate people whose worldview requires dehumanizing others to feel superior.

By their account, the peaceful civil-rights marchers who were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers on March 7, 1965, forever known as Bloody Sunday, were at fault for daring to protest injustice. They shouldn’t have marched. They shouldn’t have confronted power. They shouldn’t have been there.

History tells us otherwise. It always does, eventually.

To be clear: I am not saying people should blindly confront ICE.

But as Americans, we have both the right and the responsibility to challenge reckless authority. Decent, hardworking men and women in law enforcement, those genuinely committed to enforcing the law…

don’t cover their faces.

don’t operate in fear.

and don’t rely on intimidation to do their jobs.

The distinction matters.