A Year Later
This time last year, George Floyd was murdered under the knee of a Minnesota police officer. The images are burned into my memory. It makes me queasy to see yet another Black person made into a martyr for the cause of dismantling a racist system. There are some in our duly elected government, that deny the reality of systemic racism and poverty. How is it that the whole world was watching for so many protests as the chant went and still did nothing? What was different about this man’s life that moved the whole world to actually watch? We were witnesses. Enough people witnessed Derek Chauvin kneel on a pleading man’s neck for 9 and 1/2 minutes to impact the collective consciousness enough, and swirl the tide a little.
The tide has not turned. If you read some of the reader responses in conservative papers like the Wall Street Journal, you will also witness how many of your neighbors and countrymen believe that Chauvin subdued a criminal and committed no crime. The Journal always seems to put my comments before a review board. Suddenly, they are all “woke” about bullying and denigrating others except when it comes to challenging a presumed White comment writer. You have to be a subscriber to say “boo” in the comments, and I am, but I get edited or blocked quite often. The tide has not turned when you look at the rise of a Q Anon Nation and all of the bottom feeders that lapped up the detritus falling from the mouths of the 45th presidential administration. Racism and not giving a crap about the poor of the world was their M.O. These people are head and shoulders above Snidely Whiplash for cartoonish evil.
Our country was led by a man who puts on more makeup than a drag queen going out for coffee. That should have been the first clue. No wonder his wives didn’t catch on about his philandering and entitled boinking of porn actresses and beauty pageant contestants. He had his own makeup on his collar. 45 did not care about Black people or poor people. He wanted shiny White sycophants. There mumbled condolences about George Floyd and then a branding of Black Lives Matter as a violent and terrorist organization. The protests around the world took the spotlight off of him. Covid 19 took the spotlight off of him. Herman Cain died because of a super spreader rally in Tulsa. I had to dig deep to find a word from the 45th president on Cain’s passing. Nothing about Covid or that it was more than probable that Cain picked up the virus at the underwhelming rally.
My friend Herman Cain, a Powerful Voice of Freedom and all that is good, passed away this morning. Herman had an incredible career and was adored by everyone that ever met him, especially me. He was a very special man, an American Patriot, and great friend.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Whoop de do. If anything, 45 and his pack of thieves made money from the death and misery of others. His organization got checks from some of those commenters in the Wall Street Journal. He made money from the contributions of people who built the detention camps along the border. There was money in building that ridiculous wall. Who do you think got the contract on that hot mess? Bah! Tariffs. What tariffs when it involves one of his friends.
Now, one year later and with a more sane Executive government in charge, there has been some change but not in the tide to make it shameful to be a racist. It shows up in strange ways. The Roe V. Wade shit stirrers think that banning abortion will stop so much premarital and extramarital sex. It’s not about unborn babies. It’s about restocking an underclass with fresh meat to hunt. It’s always a numbers game in America.
The tide is against those born into the underclass. it was against George Floyd and no amount of settlement money will change that or bring him back to enjoy freedom from being seen as a threat. All of these television specials and channels showing Black themed movies that proclaim their dedication to wokeness are making money off of death. All of a sudden magazines that never featured a Black story have Bllack faces on the cover to make money off of that country club White guilt. I am sure that I am not telling you anything new. The news, the specials, and movies to honor the Black consciousness can either be stirring the tide or stoking the flames. Are you feeling queasy yet?
