Catherine Pugh, Esq.
2 min readNov 11, 2020

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They aren't quotes, love - concept distillation.

In any event, you aren't making sense. If I agreed with you, why respond just to fake disagree? If I disagreed with you, why make up an alternate disagreement?

Here's a thought: I disagree with what you actually conveyed. Hard to imagine, and yet here we are.

And it's only getting worse, I see.

"I don't believe that's what you want at all. You are mad. You want a fight. You want someone to pay for all the bad things that have happened to you. I get it."

Oh my - you very much so do not.

Well, to be fair - the mad part is apt. Not at White people, though - at you. More accurately, about your perverse expectations.

Moral imperatives and being a good neighbor aren't the same thing.

You help a neighbor build a house to be nice to that specific person. How you feel about that person controls how helpful you will or will not be. Your friend is the focus, not you.

You fight against racism because hating others for their skin is morally vile. How you feel about people targeted by that hate is irrelevant. Your moral turpitude is the focus, not the target.

Hate the target, love the target - doesn't matter. The target is not part of the analysis of whether to act or not. That's all driven by whether your morals permit tolerance for race hate.

Thus - and, concept distillation alert - "be grateful, minor child, that I reported that pedophile" isn't a thing. You do the world a disservice by expecting homage from the target just b/c you, you know, stand by your morals.

The trust and perpetuating fear and privileges, cause, claims? Dude - you sound like one of those dude's with aluminum hats. No clue about whatever that is going on there.

And anyone who gives my text greater weight b/c I'm credentialed deserves whatever passive thinking delivers to his/her doorstep, Markus.

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Catherine Pugh, Esq.
Catherine Pugh, Esq.

Written by Catherine Pugh, Esq.

Private Counsel. Former DOJ-CRT, Special Litigation Section, Public Defender; Adjunct Professor (law & undergrad). Developed Race & Law course.

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