Ellie Belle

It is.

It absolutely is.

And that is why I say we owe each other everything and we owe each other witnessing.

Because the thing is, the job of telling these stories, of trying to help get people, vulnerable people out of detention, is also falling to a select few people who are the most vulnerable already.

and who have things on the line and things we're risking to do this because we know it's the right thing.

And there are so many people with so much privilege who could be doing something, whether it's really, really small, like donating $5 or sharing someone's story or calling Congress to have them pressure ICE to let immigrants out, whatever it is that you could be doing.

Yep.

There are so many people who are not doing that.

And when there are so many people who are not doing any of the labor, all of that labor gets distributed so unevenly among a few people.

You know, I always think about the...

what is it, James Baldwin quote about how it is the job of, you know, like a few people.

It's only a few people on this earth who are like doing the job of like loving people.

Well, I'm completely butchering it right now because it's late at night and I can't think of it, but it's, it's something like that.

And I think about that all the time and something that I'm thinking about right now a lot and having a lot of conversations about

mostly with white people about is, hey, you need to start doing something because you have a lot of privilege that you're not utilizing.

And when you don't utilize it, you actually are doing a lot of harm, not in necessarily the same way that the ICE agents are, but you're still kind of capitulating to what they want you to do by putting all of this labor on vulnerable people.

who have so much to lose and so much to risk.

And we can't afford to burn out constantly because we don't have the support and the more equitable division of labor that's needed.

Like we need everyone.

We need everyone who can possibly do anything, whether that's putting your bodies on the line in person or if you're a disabled person and you're in bed and you can post something online or you can tell someone.