Month: September 2018

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amymcadams:

amymcadams:

PROTESTER: Look at me when I’m talking to you. You are telling me that my assault doesn’t matter, that what happened to me doesn’t, and that you’re going to let people who do these things into power. That’s what you’re telling me when you vote for him. Don’t look away from me.

Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land and tell everyone what they can do to their bodies.

PROTESTER: Do you think that he’s able to hold the pain of this country and repair it? That is the work of justice. The way that justice works is you recognize hurt, you take responsibility for it and then you begin to repair it. You are allowing someone who is unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions and willing to hold the harm he has done to one woman, actually three women, and not repair it. You are allowing someone who is unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions —

— to sit in the highest court of the country and to have the role of repairing the harm that has been done in this country to many people.

[…]

ANOTHER PROTESTER: You have power, but so many women are powerless.

[…]

PROTESTER: Do what is right.

update: jeff flake has called for an fbi investigation

Transcript: Survivors of Sexual Assault Confront Jeff Flake