An observational expression of happenings:
The issues of white supremacy have never been hidden in our culture. They have just not been challenged to the extent they currently are. I don't mean in magnitude. There have been punctuated moments throughout history where white supremacy has been "challenged." So in magnitude, there have been challenges. In inescapably important moments there have been Americans who have bled, fought and died to resist the ingrained white supremacy in the bloodstream of our nation. In constant struggle, there have been individuals and groups who screamed into the abyss of American complacency. But this moment is different. This moment is about the inevitable. It is wrapped in complex social evolution. And in many ways as simple as demographics.
I strive to be an antiracist. I work to see my own flaws in perception, and the ways our society has fucked up my thinking, so I can focus on unfucking it. I win some. I lose some. But that's life in a nutshell. That's also a struggle for identity, mine, and my ability to see and respect others'. I consider myself a person, relating mostly to the spirits of those with whom I share this planet. To do that, one must recognize the experiences those spirits have. It's all wrapped up in how the world unfolds for people, how they learn, and are taught to react. It's affected by society, by realities, and by symbolism.
No greater symbol than Former President Trump could have been hoped for, apparently for people of all stripes, those who support him, and those who reject him. Donald Trump has ridden the wave of conflict and placed himself squarely in the mind's eye of the world in the turbulent upheaval and the unavoidable changes of the day.
So when I say this isn't meant to be some deep analysis of all the obscure manifestations of racism, to a large extent, I have Trump to thank for that, in my opinion. And it all culminated (to date and hopefully in finale) on the insurrection day where a bunch of Trump supporters, dissatisfied with the realities of their changing surroundings, tried to destroy democracy.
On February 8 former president Donald Trump's legal team submitted a memorandum with the Senate for the defense in his impeachment trial. In this brief, a very important and often parroted notion was repeated.
"During the past four years, Democrat members of the United States House of Representatives have filed at least nine (9) resolutions to impeach Donald J. Trump, the 45 th President of the United States, each containing charges more outlandish than the next."
I've been hearing shit like that since Trump forced his smelly carcass of a soul into the nostrils of the world. The bottom line is, YES! Democrats have been "After Trump" since he took office. But the obvious issue there is, WHY? The correct way to see that is that Democrats have been SOUNDING THE ALARM since Trump became such a danger.
There are just too many metaphors, similes, analogies, memes, and odors with which one can capture the essence of Donald Trump. None of them are pretty. But the thing that gets me is how people can be so hoodwinked by him. He has mystified even many of his opponents. He has the quality of a noxious gas that somehow poisons anyone who comes in contact with it. Only some folks seem to get a deluded high, losing touch with reality, while others get some paranoid complex where they think he is somehow magically invincible. He's, in fact, simply a human version of a highly toxic fart. That's the simple truth.
The Qpublicans (GOPQ) have let him loose and keep trying to pull the covers over our collective faces. And now there are speculations about whether the stage at CPAC was some secret Nazi symbol. My response to that is, who cares? It's only a publicity stunt if so. We already know they're Nazis. Trump and his crew brought that pimple to a big white, exposed head. I think we all know what's coming next.
-Yours Truly, In a Concerted Effort to NOT Fuel Facebook with My Rants,
Lee
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