Such little consciousness

I am terribly disappointed to witness such low levels of consciousness here at Freedom Plaza - we are focused on fighting for the right to occupy, so, as usual in the white supremest/patriarchal scheme of things, other 'issues' as womyn's voices are stifled let alone people of color's voice, smokers believing it is their god-given right to smoke wherever they walk or sit, be it in the food tent, at a meeting, among the tents! grrrrr

As the masses of people who were on the 6th have dwindled - especially womyn leaving - the unconsciousness becomes more blatant. Today I approached the mike, 9th on stack of all males & me! I was beckoned by the note taker who whispers to me to keep it short.

Keep it short!@#!@$@# An old white male vet followed me - no one approached him, or any of the other men - and he rambled on at least twice as long as I spoke.

If things were fair, white womyn would be allotted twice as long as to speak as men, and black womyn thirty times longer.