2024 Election Reflections
Below are letters that address my unfolding reflections on the 2024 election, how history may very well look back on this as the beginning of the end of democracy in the United States, and what we, the people, can do to make us one again.
Through them, I’ve tried to do my part to help shape important facets of the narrative while it still can be shaped. But first, a caveat – I was, without question, a Harris supporter, so that's my perspective. However, I actually have little to say about Trump or about anyone who voted for him. That's as it should be, and the way democracy works.
For me, the real issue is with the religious faction that, over the last 50 years, has been completely forthcoming about its desire to subvert democracy so that even if they’re a shrinking minority, they can still rule society. The apparatus they’ve built and the damage it’s done will continue to impair us long after this administration is gone.
The letters themselves are an interweaving of my own journey to here and now with our collective one. I hope they encourage you, strengthen you and enlighten you. But, perhaps most of all, I hope they empower you and embolden you to take up the work of those who’ve come before us and leave a better America for those who’ll come after.
Martin said it this way: “We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.” That’s what I’m trying to do here.
#1: Stayed on Freedom
What those who've come before us can teach us about staying in the fight.
#2: The Way It Is?
The Heart of America (or, How to Outrun a Bear)
#3: “We’re Gonna Make It Anyway”
Why, though some are declaring this election an ending, it has all the makings of a beginning.
#4: Feet on the Sidewalk
13 Powerful Social Change Lessons Others Have Bequeathed Us
#5: Things That Need Doing
It’s Not the Waking, It’s the Rising
#6: We Americans
News from the Future
#7: Three Truths (And a Really Big Lie)
“I’ve got a shotgun, and you ain’t got one.”
#8: 1964 - 2024: Meeting History
What the Last 60 Years Have to Teach Us About the Present We're Living and the Future We're Choosing (+ Reflections On My 60th).
#9: The Gospel According to Gaga (Or, “Take a Load off Fanny”)
How Gays Became the Religious Right’s “Arch” (And More Importantly, Why)
#10 Reason to Believe (Or, The Resistance to the Resistance)
Why Celebrating the Holidays - Especially When the Struggle Is Tough - Matters More Than We Can Possibly Imagine.
#11: One More Bridge to Cross
1965, 1978, 2008 & 2025 — Four Powerful Segments of United States History and the Lessons We Can Learn From Them.
#12: Watch “The Sixth” on this Insurrection Day
Watch This Powerful Documentary About What Really Went Down on January 6, 2021 -- Told by Six People Who Were There.
RD Moore is an artist, minister, lifelong social activist, emancipationist and founder of the Mary Moore Institute for Diversity, Humanity & Social Justice (MMI). He credits the people who crossed his path starting in his formative years in post-Civil Rights-era Birmingham for the person he’d become and for his unyielding faith in who we can be together. Known for his intimate storytelling and insightful understanding, his work continues to explore that fertile space where diversity, spirituality and humanity all intersect.