Heather Heyer.
An American martyr. A hero. My hero.
Her last words on FB “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”
Heather’s mother, Susan Bro reflected on her daughter, ‘She always had a very strong sense of right and wrong. She always, even as a child, was very caught up in what she believed to be fair,” Bro said. “Somehow I almost feel that this is what she was born to be, is a focal point for change. I’m proud that what she was doing was peaceful. She wasn’t there fighting with people.”
She recalled that her daughter was charitable and reached out to the underprivileged. Bro said Heather used to invite friends who were “having a hard time” to stay with them, sometimes for months. Anyone who needed help received it from Heather, Bro said.
I attached the article. This mother’s response to a horrific event is beautiful.
© 2026 – SoulSequel
10 responses to “SAY HER NAME!”
Some racists in group A drove a car into some racists in group B.
Not sure how this is my problem.
I say we just give guns to both of the racist domestic terror groups and let them fight it out.
btw, I didn’t see you shedding this many tears when the racist BLM guy shot up all those Dallas cops.
@Weenis You see things like the simple minded 45th president. A counter protest to a white nationalist, KKK torch bearing, and armed group is not the same thing. This young lady was marching to stand up against hate. She didn’t have a weapon or a torch.
I shed many tears when that shooting in Dallas happened. I was out of the country for a month with no access to the internet. So I didn’t shed tears here for you to respond to.
Move along weenie, move along.
@Gina
… the counter protest group is a bunch of BLM and ANTIFA racists.
Sure, it might have been a counter protest, but just because a counter protest is happening against the KKK doesn’t mean the counter protesters are now protesting on some moral high ground.
@Weenis Once again, you think like the 45th prez and our AG, Jeff Sessions. I disagree that BLM and Antifa are racists organizations, BUT even if they were; how can you say this is OK? Running people over with a car? That is ISIS type shit.
You would shit your pants if last Saturday night was black men and women carrying torches and screaming, “Get those Crackers!”, but no; it was a bunch of white chicken shits, white supremacists, shouting racial, ethnic and religious epithets about Black and Jewish people, chanting Nazi slurs, waving the Confederate flag and banners emblazoned with giant swastikas.
@Weenis To call Heather Heyer a racist is like a person calling Jesus Christ a terrorist.
Heather was a woman who had no weapon. No torch. No fascist symbol to illustrate her sympathies. She was there to show her support for tolerance as, if you read her history, she lived her life.
I sympathize with her family because I have the capacity to empathize with them. Can you? It’s a serious question weenis.
Can you imagine being told your child is dead because she chose to stand up for what she believed in; the true message of Christ to “Love thy neighbour”? Christ repudiated “eye for an eye” (Matthew 5;38-42) and you suggesting that guns are the mechanism to take an eye for an eye, until there are no eyes. Is that your solution? Blindness?
I have heard her name numerous times. I have no idea what the murderer’s name is. And that is how it should be. He is Murderer.
Waves of emotions always crash. One can feel very “high” riding them for a while. But they always crash.
“If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention”. This is the cry of an emotional wave about to break. Trying to control people with your outrage . . . is essentially what put her in the protest crowd that day to be hit. I’m not a fan of protests — because they’ve been SO over-done that they accomplish little these days. Maybe some strong-arming; some leveraging. But that kind of “changing other” rarely lasts. Change has to be a choice; and not something another strong-arms you into.
There are ways to effect positive change that are far more effective than just taking to the streets in crowds to ride a wave of emotional outrage and insist that OTHERS need to change, or do something so YOU won’t be outraged and controlled by your emotions.
The best way to honor someone like this . . . is to learn the lesson they have become the poignant symbol of. Ride the wave of emotionalism . . . but be ready for it to crash. Cry for your right to ride the wave of emotionalism. But don’t be surprised if it crashes — or it puts you somewhere you don’t want to be.
Because nothing has been accomplished from this. Those protested against have dug themselves in even harder and become more set in their ways because of the protest trying to control them into changing.
And one of the people who earnestly believed that they could use their outrage to control others . . . protests no more.
A bit of a waste really . . . just to “ride the wave”. But if people are convinced this is what she loved doing . . . .
@griz She posted that last November. We wouldn’t have any of our civil rights if there wasn’t protests and marches. This young lady didn’t live her life in a rage. I watched an interview with her mom yesterday and she has heard from people her daughter helped during her life that she didn’t even know about, like standing up to the bully on the bus. Agreed, we can’t go around being enraged at all times; we need to take care of ourselves and enjoy life. But do not take marching and protests lightly.
The GOP didn’t get enough votes to overturn our health care system (ACA) aka obamacare, because people showed at all the town halls and made their voices heard.
“like a tree that stands by the water, we shall not be moved.”
@Gina
Passion can be a powerful motivator. But it is also a very effective blinding agent.
It is like the sugar rush that tells you for a short time that you are full. (Although in some cases it seems to have morphed into a monster energy Rush).
What if there were more healthful and longer-lasting solutions — but we feel our rushes are satisfying our emotions enough and there’s no need to do anything more than stand around Express displeasure and insist that others need to change.
It doesn’t take too much scrutiny to see that the very nature of those demonstrations of old have changed into something rather nasty.
I think it a valid observation that the ACA was preserved at least for now, because of cooler heads in, reasoning that refused to be intimidated for the sake of a party line.