I’ve realized the walls in the United States exist between sexists and feminists and between racists and minorities.

The outcome of our current political shift will require parties interested in segregation, discrimination and erecting ACTUAL Berlin-stlye walls along the Mexian-American border to recognize the inevitability of equilibrium. It doesn’t have to be painful for the sexists and the racists to concede their fall from power.

There will be no “takeover”. There doesn’t have to be bloody revolution. Just let the meek have a piece of your pie.

Put down your guns. We won’t tell God what you’ve done to the poor and to women and minorites. We’ll let all of that go. We’re peaceful people just trying to take part in what you’ve left us of the American Dream.

This is not a footnoted history piece. At worst, it’s a tall tale with truthiness. But I’m not the only one who’s told it. If you want facts, Wiki Berlin Wall. The following is my Berlin Wall story:

Ronald Reagan didn’t end the Cold War. By some accounts, the Berlin Wall fell because it just wanted to. That is to say, people demanded it. Nowhere was this more evident than on the night of November 9, 1989 in Berlin.

By that time, East Germans had already caught wind of relaxed travel restrictions in Hungary, and so many clever Easterners attended Borderline “Biergaerten (glorified picnics)”, and so tens of thousands of East Germans took the opportunity to dine and then dash into the West.

East German Parliament, in an effort to regain popular support from it’s caged citizenry, passed measures loosening (slightly) travel restrictions for East Germans. They felt they had thrown the masses a good, meaty bone and so they went on vacation (presumably, travel restrictions didn’t apply to government dignitaries).

That night, the State-controlled radio DJ and East German political spokesman, Günter Schabowski, announced the Parliamentary decision as he received it.

Only, one small detail was omitted from policy: ab wann (when do these relaxed laws go into effect)?

So he said, “ab sofort (effective immediately).” And the ground swelled.

Without thousands of media outlets to choose from, most citizens were tuned in to that single broadcast. With the joyous news of an open border, thousands flocked to the wall. Guards stationed there that night were overwhelmed, unable to reach any of the vacationing ruling class. They did what any outnumbered guard might do in the face of mob rule: they gave the mob what it wanted. They tore down the wall.

And so can we.

Some crazy fucker
carved a sculpture
out of butter
and propped it up
in the middle of
the Bonanza! Breakfast Bar™.
And I’m stuffing
toast and sausage
into my pockets
under a sign that says
“GRAND OPENING”
while my dog is waiting in the car.

I wake up
I check out
I fill the tank
and wash the windshield clean
and then I’m back out
on the highway
and
BANG ThatsWhenIRemembermy .dreeeammm

We were standing in the garden
and I had a machine that made silence.
It just SUCKED UP the whole opiiinionated din.

And there were no people on the payroll.
And there were NO monkeys on our backs and
and I said, “Baby, show me what you look like
without skin.”

Science
chases money™
and money chases its tail

and the best minds of my generation
CAN’T MAKE BAIL.

The bacteria
are coming
to take us down, that’s my prediction

It’s the answer
to this culture
of the
quick
fix
prescriptionnn.

But in the garden of simple
where ALL of us are nameless
you were never anything but beautiful to me.

And, you know, they never really owned you.
You just carried them around you,
and then one day you but them down and found your hands were FREE.

So now it’s early
in the morning
at the longitude of Memphis
and the sun is setting sweetly on Hong Kong.

The big plan:
is just to keep spinning!
cuz the Big Bang is only
just beginning
and sometimes it’s all that we can do just to hang on…

…and what I mean to say is: “Muah!”
which means that I’m thinking of you.
Which means I’ve been thinking
of you
all
along.

—Ani Difranco