The Class that Rules
A reflection of the times
As we prepare to enter women’s history month and celebrate International Women’s Day, my heart is heavy.
The recent unsealing of some of the Epstein files under the new Transparency Act was meant to clear the air. The release of the Happy Birthday Letter from 2003 offers a glimpse into a world of privilege and predation. The crude drawing of a woman and the chilling wish that “every day be another wonderful secret”; it all paints a portrait of powerful men who view women and children not as people, but as currency in a sick private game. The youngest victim referred to in the files is a nine year old girl.
And still nobody in the US has been held accountable.
This disregard for the vulnerable bleeds from the personal into the political. While the administration fights to keep old secrets buried, its new machinery is brutally efficient in the open. The mass deportation agenda has turned the treatment of immigrants, including women, children, and many legally present, from a policy debate into a nightmare of raids and removals.
As many are swept into the unknown, the silence of our humanity is deafening.