"Why are you considered controversial?", someone recently asked me. I think there are a couple of reasons.
When you fight really entrenched power, that power will fight you back.
They cannot be seen attacking the message, because that makes them look bad — so they attack the messenger. There will never be an uncontroversial messenger for challenging the structures of power keeping wages low.
Secondly, I think my presence as someone who was a waitress… I’m not supposed to be there, according to them, and I’m not bought. There’s a real class aspect to this.
There are a lot of people who think if you don’t make a lot of money, it’s reflective of your intelligence and your capacity as a human being. There's a very real, built-in denigration and devaluing of people because of the class that they are in.
And of course, I’m a woman and I’m Latina. My mere existence is subversive in the place that I am.
I also don’t act in a way that women are supposed to act in a society like this. You’re coming at me crazy, I’m not going to be deferential to you.
That makes a lot of classist, ageist, misogynist, and racist people mad.
But together, we’ve built a movement fighting against entrenched power and for transformative change — from Medicare for All to democratizing fundraising power in politics.
Help us continue the fight with a grassroots contribution today.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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