montgomery and the idea that we are outside of damage and despair in a local community is problematic at the cosmic level. secondly, i think the reality for us is that when we enter into these spaces as organizers we have aer moral and ethical obligation to submit to local leadership and follow them in a way that we come to understand what the nuances, details and that kind of thing. lastly for me as we think about these mothers' tears and the tears at the table that on this mother's day it seems the case that everyone in the nation tamir rice needs to be their son oh. for everyone in the nation every time a black baby is shot in the back it has to be the fact. for white folks, that something cosmically is at stake for them. what we need from white folks is for them not to be allies but