On Forgiveness & Teaching Others...

Chris Cooper's reported refusal to cooperate in the prosecution of Amy Cooper, the woman who made false accusations against him while birdwatching in Central Park, NY that could have resulted in death or unwarranted persecution of him is either a demonstration of how thoroughly white folks have conditioned Black folks to be good, forgiving, God and/or white folk fearing and Christian-like or a demonstration of how ridiculous is their fear or paranoia of us, Black folks, seeking revenge...

He probably regrets sharing the video with his sister who made it go viral and who does not share his feelings of empathy for what happens to Amy for behavior that could have resulted in the death or unjustified incarceration of her brother, a Black man in America. I'm with the sister. Hold her accountable!

Brotha' had the presence of mind to record the injustice being exacted upon him. Sadly however, not the presence of mind or courage to forge a new narrative about him as a Black man or to set a new precedent on folks being held accountable for their malicious deeds or trespasses against us for simply living while Black in America. This is bigger than him. He needs to cooperate.

We cannot demand equality and justice, "No Justice, No Peace", from the legal system and then when it is afforded us get sheepish, protective, forgiving, deny or refuse it, therefore giving justification to the horrendous treatment of us no matter our perception of the DA's motive to finally see fit to render us equal justice and protections under the law. Ain't we people too? We teach folks how to treat us. I am not in favor of the lesson Mr. Cooper has chosen to teach here...

Not to cooperate is to reaffirm or send a message that it is OK to violate, harm or risk our life and/or liberty, that somehow, no matter the treatment of us, it is justified but more disturbing that have accepted or internalized the double standard by which we are judged. Inequity and unfair treatment of us is not OK, especially not with us.

We cannot have it both ways. If justice brings peace in the morning, then let us receive it not rebuke it! STOP with the one-sided forgiveness shit! Let the church say Amen...

~Miss Higgi Says...

We’re Damned If We Do, Dead If We Don’t...

Someone who read the byline on my recently published article, A Black American's Appeal for Independence, asked about my move to Camden, NJ. I said that it was on purpose because gentry-fication is real. It is where I was born, had my first real job and where I went to law school. I would not have moved to Camden right now however had I known I would be in quarantine. I probably would have left the US preferring to ride out this pandemic somewhere more serene. Lots of us would have done things differently if only we had known... Of course we would have. This is like living in a sci fi movie with a satirical comedic twist that ain't so funny. Hell! I don't even like sci-fi and now I'm living it? Who would have ever thought it?

I have learned never to gamble with your feng shui. Stick with what you know is comfortable and brings you joy, especially in your home, especially at my age. I like high rise apartment buildings with balconies, preferably overlooking or near water and hot, hot weather. Had I known that my home would become my "prison", that is where I'd be, in surroundings that bring me joy during this time of trouble.

These are especially difficult times in the US because at a time of crisis, "America the Great!" has no leadership. The virus is spreading like hell, killing with a vengeance, and this guy is rolling the dice that more Black folks will die than whites. Whites who die will be considered to have done so for the utilitarian good, continued dominance and survival of their brethren. Like Black folks, they have been deemed expendable. These same people, the republicans, were just as cavalier and unconcerned about HIV as long as they could sell to their "good Christian" followers that it was contained to "sinners" in the gay and IV drug using communities. Never is their hate in short supply. But then there was the contaminated blood supply and cute little, fair skinned Ryan White. Still, they haven't learned. What's that they say about having a hard head?

This is surely a crazy time to be American in America. Have you noticed during this political campaign season, there has been no mention of the wall to fire up the already angry base? The wall, ANOTHER of trump's failures... Hell, I don't think we hear much lately about how great is America or making America great again - Enter Kanye West! Oh Lord! As though we have not been tortured enough in these last four years... Back to the wall, no one is trying to come into US. If anything, we are trying to get out but who will take us? No one! And rightfully so!

The days of privilege and welcome mats for bearers of that little blue passport are over, at least in the foreseeable future, maybe forever. Post trump damage assessment will be astounding even to his supporters... Other countries, to include those deemed "shit-hole" countries by the occupier, with responsible governments, are deciding that the risk of COVID is not worth tolerance of the ugly American for a few tourist dollars. Mexico probably now says build the wall, build it high and stay on your side! LOL! These are just sorrowful days in the US. Be glad if you are outside the borders. I cannot believe that globetrotting me is here. Oh well. This too shall pass, just no time soon.

And then there is November. Ain't gonna' be pretty. trump, the last of the "great white hopes", will continue to assemble and spread COVID to poor and/or angry, scared, hate filled and racist whites at his kkk rallies, he will inundate us with nasty sound bites and media ads but he will not engage in debates or other political campaign rituals citing overwhelming hate for him by We The People, fake news and unfair advantages in the media for Joe Biden and the liberal Democrats, the party of which he was a member until calling himself republican better served his ego, his bottom-line or his purpose and incredibly, as he predicted or extorted, the "good patriots" all fell in line and caved. Amazing!

trump is a coward who is a bigger bully! In keeping with his current record of losing or ruining all that he touches, as in 2016 he will not win the presidential election. As bad as it seems and as loud as they are, there are not quite enough ignorant and racist folks in the US to win a nationwide election. He is counting on putin, a morally bankrupt, corrupt and complicit senate or paying off the electoral college for his "win". When all else fails, he will rely on stacked courts, federal to US Supreme Court to advance his coup. No matter the outcome, his ignorant ass will not concede.

He will instead incite his 5th Avenue cult followers to wreak havoc, maim, hang, shoot or otherwise kill others, burn shit down including the white house if necessary, whatever act(s) of intimidation it takes and is in accordance with their terrorist, racist history. They will risk their freedom and the mass destruction of another civil war in defense of him, a demented and evil imposter loyal only to himself. Meanwhile he and his deplorable family, who also could give a damn about any of their defenders, will be safely tucked away in a bunker somewhere paid for by their tax dollars as they risk death and tear up the country.

It's going to be quite the shit show, a test of testosterone for the Democrats, something they're not known to possess. Wusses! Will they roll over once again, being predictable and easily manipulated as they play by the rules known to all, followed only by them, as they travel along that over rated "high road" traversed only by them or will they take whatever drastic measures are required to save the nation and remove the loathsome, cowardly, unlawful, corrupt, treasonous bastard who by the way, will still be a PITA (pain in the ass) tormenting us from the sidelines whether occupying the white house or not. He will never go away and dumb dumb don jr and evil ivanka are waiting in the wings to take his place when he is no longer able, God wiling soon, to continue his torture of us. This is a movie I would prefer to have watched from afar, if at all...

Good Monday Morning Folks! Yes, these are the thoughts of uncertainty that I awake to as an American in America. Those outside America watch in horror and disbelief while others outside the US pass the popcorn and cheer in delight as they witness our inevitable fall, which came easier than even they imagined I am sure.

Being American, is especially exhausting right now. Ain't much good about it but still we fight! Of course we do! Vote People Vote! Don your BLUE and get to the polls no matter the obstacle, no matter the candidate or his running mate! Understand that if your vote didn't matter there would not be such intense efforts from one party to garner it and the other party to suppress it!!! Black lives matter as do our votes! Believe it!!! Vote to save the nation built by our ancestors and for the next generation to come who are out there in those damn streets lifting their voice and fighting for us. We owe our youth and our Ancestors, a future and the respect of our vote respectively...

Meet me at the polls!!!

~ Miss Higgi

Note: Title tribute to my dear friend Donna Washington

Frederick Douglass Speaks 1852 - 2020; What to Black America is the 4th of July?

I imagine that even before, and certainly since, the bold and infamous speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, What to the American Slave is your 4th of July?, this has been a day of mixed meaning to Americans based on race. I dare say that for most Black Americans, it has meant a day of family, eating, sun and fun, a day off from work and maybe even some fireworks. I don't remember ever there being mention of Americanism or patriotism in our celebrations. We dare not fly the flag nor wear any combination of red, white and blue on that day or any other, the colors of the American flag, representative of a meaning of Americanism mostly unfamiliar to us. I vividly remember no longer saluting the flag early in my elementary school years; 2nd or 3rd grade. Once Black students in my mostly white school learned that all we had to do was stand, that was all she wrote. No longer did we cross our heart or utter words of allegiance about liberty, freedom and justice that did not apply to us, words that were not and still are not reflective of our reality of being Black in America. To say that Black Americans have a complicated relationship with this country that we built, is a HUGE understatement...

Fast forward to 2003, I am about to start law school. I am enrolled in some pre-entry program abeeing oddered at a big law firm in DC. It is a small group of first year law students. Most of the participants are non-white. Lawyers are volunteering their time to show us the ropes and help us to get acclimated and prepared for our new journey. I met some good people there who I still call friends today. I will never forget on the eve of the 4th of July, in comes a partner wanting to address us about the holiday. He proudly gives each of us two pocket sized books; the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which he declared the greatest document ever written. SMH... Not even 3/5 or me shares that sentiment. He continues still with much pride that each year on the 4th, he and his family gather to read the Declaration. Eyes wide, brows frowned, I am looking at my peers to assess their unspoken response because certainly I'm not identifying and never have I described either of these two documents as the best ever written. I remember thinking just how different and far apart were our worlds when it came to some very basic ideals and beliefs but white folks, thinking it is they who set the norm, have no sense or care that Black folks don't share their values or views about what is or is not important or relevant to us. Our voice of disagreement is silenced or made invisible as they continue to inflict their values and beliefs upon us rarely giving ours even the least of consideration.

Fast forward again to July 4th, 2020. America is experiencing a reckoning of sorts; certainly giving the appearance of commitment of efforts to come to terms with race in America and the complicated relationship Blacks have with them, their flag, their holiday, their values. America is taking steps to address police brutality and what it truly means to be policed while Black in America, making steps to acknowledge the pain of Black Americans and kinda' awkwardly apologizing with all sorts of interesting gestures, recognizing Juneteenth, a very special holiday, Lift Ev'ry Voice & Sing, the Black National Anthem, immediately firing those exposed for trespassing against us EVEN cops, removing offensive statutes and the like. At the same time however, giving balance to our complicated relationship, police unions are revving up their defense of the indefensible, Black people are still being attacked and not so mysteriously again becoming "strange fruit" hanging from trees in not so strange places to include NJ!, yet we are to believe that these persons have committed suicide by hanging themselves (Newsflash: Black folks didn't lynch ourselves during jim crow when white folks picnicked and froliked beneath our hanging bodies nor do we lynch ourselves now nor kill ourselves while handcuffed in the backseat of police cars) and let us not forget that there is a raving, illiterate racist lunatic inciting further division and signaling hopes for a civil war while occupying the white house that enslaved Black folks were forced to build free of charge. By virtue of our history here in this country, Black Americans have EARNED the right to call ourselves American but many understandably still struggle with this notion. So still, it remains a complicated relationship between Black Americans, our nation's flag, our decision to love or not to love this country that we built and all too often, with our fellow citizens who enslaved and continue to traumatize us and who are white...

No, I will not be celebrating today, mostly because of the pandemic that is disproportionately killing Black folks and taking out whites who are obviously deemed collateral damage or expendable utilitarian goods as our current and blatantly racist US government does nothing to address or control spread of the virus nationally. Not looking to make his task of Black genocide any easier, I will stay home. Otherwise I would enjoy the day by a pool or a beach preferably outside the country or just dropping in locally to visit and catch up with friends. But please, by all means, do you! Celebrate or not. Just be safe and be wise in the choices that make for yourself regarding what you decide to do or not do. Also remember to please allow and respect the choice of others and how they choose to spend their day. It is America. So far, we still have free speech and freedoms of thought and expression. I know for certain however that I will not be reading the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence nor taking in the fireworks. I will be chillin' and celebrating me as I see fit!!!

Proud to be independent to do as I please on this controversial day of celebration that I am choosing to call Frederick Douglass Day! Please listen to his speech as recited by his grandchildren, fully in his spirit and sadly, still applicable to the Black man's cause for celebration of July 4th, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT years later. Still we ponder the same question, What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Enjoy Your Day!!!

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech

❤️🖤💚

Reckoning With #YOUTOO!!!

It is interesting to me that those most uncomfortable with or struggling most to grapple with this current "reckoning of America" if you will, are liberal white folks who have to come to terms with their complicity in the systemic traumatization of Black Americans. Typically it is they who are in the chorus with Black folks calling out and pointing fingers of blame and shame at republicans and other racists for some egregious or blatantly discriminatory deed. This time however the Black choir members are turning to [on] their fellow carolers and saying to them #YOUTOO!!! The "good liberal" white folks, you know like Amy Cooper, the white woman in Central Park, NYC who relied on translation and understanding of the racism in her coded language used to convey a false claim of distress to the 9-11 dispatcher that a "big Black man was trying to rape her" all the while being filmed to the contrary, are beside themselves that Black folks think #themtoo complicit in harms experienced by us because of race.

Some Black folks have always said they prefer the overt, in your face kind of racism associated with the southern experience as opposed to the back door, behind the scene, smile in your face while twisting the knife in your back racism typical of the liberal north. There is a sense that at least with blatant racism, one knows where they stand.

Liberal whites who have been gatekeepers and all too willing beneficiaries if not practitioners of racism themselves have mistaken silence and tolerance by Black people as acceptance or forgiveness for the pain they conveniently ignored but have wreaked in our lives and seen on our faces. These folks are having to come to grips with the fact that marrying Black, adopting Black babies, holding jobs in the helping profession, having a few Black friends and the like does not absolve them from holding racist beliefs or at the very least being complicit in the perpetuation of racism and certainly it doesn't make them any kind of authority on what it means to be Black in America nor a natural "ally" to Blacks in America.

A prime example of such an awakening was when Black folks decided to back Barack Obama's candidacy for POTUS instead of Hillary Clinton's. The Clintons and the Dems lost their mind! I only wish I could find the footage of Geraldine Ferraro. She all but said, "after all we have done for you "Ninjas". She could not contain her anger. Little did she realize that it was in fact Blacks who, year after year, had done for her and the Dems with our loyalty in voting. Bill and Hillary behaved badly too. Yes, #THEMTOO!

Hillary paid a price for this during her 2016 run. Black folks did not forget and did not show up at the polls for her as she and others assumed we would. The Dems never quite understood that the overwhelming support of Barack Obama was all about the candidate more than about the party. They took Black voter support for granted and did nothing to thank us for our vote or to keep us engaged in politics and then wondered why we didn't show up with the same enthusiasm in 2016. They blamed Black folks instead of examining themselves. Of course they did, good liberals who think we should be forever grateful for "all they do for us". I digress...

I am watching and listening as I see all these corporations and non-profits responding in varied and interesting, but undeniably awkward, ways to send messages of gratitude and support, if not veiled apologies, to Black customers and employees who they have abused, underpaid, disrespected, ignored, disregarded, devalued and discriminated against, not hired, not promoted, denied agency or contracts, etc in the workplace. Some are making Juneteenth a holiday, Uber Eats is waiving fees for deliveries from Black owned restaurants and even the NFL is magically embracing one's right to protest and offering to re-hire Colin Kaepernick. It's all quite fascinating to watch as they fall all over themselves to say mea culpa or try to have the "difficult" conversation about RACE as it pertains to Black folks that heretofore they have avoided with deliberate intent. They concentrated instead on all kinds of "others" in the guise of diversity rather than deal with how Black folks were feeling and being treated in the workplace. Now they want us to listen to the words they cannot find and would not hear from us when we tried to express ourselves and put words to what we were experiencing. It's a great time to be in the business of race and/or cultural competencies. Contracts are coming from everywhere!

To self proclaimed allies:
My advice is to just listen during these conversations. Don't correct Black people in what or how they express their feelings. Don't interrupt and interject how you feel. It ain't about you right now. Black folks are sick and tired of holding it in and together, we are exhaling a collective release of pent up anger, frustration and pain. So white women, gay people, disabled people, people of color who are not Black and even Black people who aren't Black (you know who you are), this is not your time. Do not sit in these conversations and divert the energy and subject matter to discussions about you. We have been hearing all about you and have been supportive and respectful to issues pertaining to you ever since we fought for rights that gave you a voice and/or a seat at the table we prepared. Yes, #YOUTOO, all the while standing on our shoulders, have served to drown out the Black voice. Sometimes it has been you who has had a foot on our neck. So if you must be in the room and are not leading the discussion, just be there and be quiet. Let the panther have his day...

"Panthers don't hunt humans. Although in some cultures people believe that black panthers are dangerous animals, this isn't true. Panthers only attack if they feel threatened, so if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone."

To liberal whites:
Like the panther, Black folks just want to be left alone, treated right, respected, not taken for granted and not hunted like animals by those paid to protect and serve us. And when that doesn't happen, we need you good liberal white folks who are now having such a hard time finding the right words, time or place to speak up, to stand with us even when it is to your own detriment, even at the expense of releasing your grip on "white privilege", that elusive ideology that has become the convenient excuse for explaining away all that is unfair but of course in your favor. To offer an acknowledgement of white privilege as though it is some inevitable, unavoidable, inexplicable condition is falling on deaf ears. Find a new tune, the choir no longer appreciates those lyric. They have no melody nor meaning...


To Black Americans:
Black folks, stop harboring your pain. It is not healthy for you mentally or physically. It falls on us to not let this reckoning or conversation about race and the reality of living while Black in America to die. Like #METOO, there must be a #YOUTOO movement. No longer should we ignore, rationalize, internalize or excuse away pain or insults heralded at us at the risk of our being labeled "angry", "combative", "overly sensitive" or "confrontational" by those who have mastered use of these labels to avoid or deflect from discussions of race because it makes them uncomfortable. Is not our comfort important? Have we not internalized enough pain or discomfort for just being Black in America? We must resist tolerance of being other people being offended at our expense, no matter who the offender when it pertains to race, Black folks specifically. In real time or as close to the offending act or event as possible, inform the offender of his or her behavior. Lift your voice and sing loudly, #YOUTOO! Be not concerned with the discomfort of the offender. Look that person straight in the eye and tell them #YOUTOO are responsible for the trauma I endure for simply living while Black in America. Tell that person, be it your neighbor, your friend, your colleague, lover, supervisor, teacher or college professor, co-worker, a fellow parishioner or some other self proclaimed ally, your banker, your lawyer, whoever it is, when they offend, disregard or marginalize you, tell them, #YOUTOO! You are the best advocate for you and we teach others how to treat us. So far our lessons have failed. No one seems to hear our song. It is time to adopt new practices, teach a new lesson, sing a new song with new lyrics.  We are breathing, feeling and thinking human beings who hurt but who have beautiful and powerful voices and we sing. Folks love to hear us sing so let's entertain them. We must lift our voice in harmony in our continued pursuit for equality and liberty. Until our victory is won, Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing! #OURSTOO!

Lift ev'ry voice and sing

'Til earth and heaven ring

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the list'ning skies

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun

Let us march on 'til victory is won

Lift Every Voice and Sing, Written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, set to music in 1900 by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, adopted by the NAACP in 1919 and still revered today as the 

Negro National Anthem.

Imagining Breonna Taylor; Say Her Name

#BreonnaTaylor

Can you just imagine, you are a hard working, law abiding woman. You go to bed in the comforts of your home and in the protection and warmth of your man's arms. Hoodlums dressed in blue kick open your door, break into your home with guns drawn forever disturbing your peace and that of your community and your loved ones. Imagine that...

These thugs, all dressed in blue, shoot and murder you. You never saw it coming. You died not knowing that it was your tax dollars that paid the salary of the hoodlums who murdered you and falsely arrested your man. Drama and trauma all rolled into one and all you were trying to do was get a good night sleep.The thugs in blue, were in fact cops on the local municipal payroll. You were an EMT and might have even worked with them or someday saved their lives. Now they have murdered you. Imagine that...

The cover up begins. Your man is arrested for doing what men are supposed to do, defend his woman and protect his household. You are now in a black body bag. He is now in an orange body suit. How in the hell did that happen when all you did was go to bed in the comforts of your own home? Self defense in one's home is not a crime but now your man, who rightfully shot in self defense, is being paraded like a criminal before the media by the criminals who killed you. One can only imagine what is going through his mind. Thank God for Judge Olu Stevens who brought justice to this matter and released Mr. Walker with no bail pending trial for commission of no crime. A Black Judge committed to justice did that! Imagining Justice for ALL in America...

You were aware of the endless incidents of Black lives ended by poorly trained, fearful and/or violent police. Never could you have imagined when you put your head on your pillow on that fateful night in March that your name would be added to a long list of infamous Black folks murdered for no reason other than simply Living While Black. Against your will, you are now part of an ever growing list of innocent Black Americans who die victims in infamy at the hands of murderous cops. And all you ever wanted was a good night sleep in the comfort of your man's arms. Instead, in a flash and without notice, your life, your dreams, your future and that of your man is over. Your light and his have been extinguished. You are forever gone. He is forever changed... It hurts to imagine that...

And to think that all the cops had to do was knock and respect you and your man in your home as they would have done given another zip code. Across town, there is no presumption of guilt nor fear of retaliation for all the harm they have inflicted upon the community. Across town, never would they have violated you or the sanctity of your home in the wee hours of the morning murdering you and arresting your man. Across town, they would have done their homework and realized before kicking in your door while you slept in you man's arms that yours was the wrong address and that already they had in custody the man they were seeking. Across town I imagine that still you would be alive nursing and tending to wounded cops, their friends, their families or others of innocent victims of their crimes such as yourself. Across town, there would be justice and accountability for what happened to you and your man. I would like to imagine the same for your community and your loved ones. Instead, I imagine their pain...

Imagining Breonna Taylor, Say Her Name!

Justice For Kenneth Walker!!! Say His Name Too!

Breonna & Kenneth

There Is Trouble A Brewin' in America...

This morning they are telling us that 86,904 Americans are dead from COVID-19 in America, which means that there are more. Still trump is doing nothing to rise to the occasion of leadership. Why not? Because on top of being icy cold, inhumane, racist and xenophobic, donald trump is grossly incompetent and as should be expected, is rising to the only standard or level of performance he has even known; failure! America knows this but still America continues to tolerate the presence, embarrassment and absolute humiliation of him for the world to see. America has lost her standing and her might on the world stage for a very long time to come...

donald trump is the epitome of that imbecile supervisor we have all had who was utterly stupid but who spoke with such confidence and belief in him or herself and in what s/he was saying that you looked on and listened in total disbelief and wondered whose relative must s/he be. Some joke that trump is that 'crazy old uncle'. But this crazy old uncle occupies the White House, has his finger near the button to kill us all and is evil, corrupt and immoral as hell. There is nothing funny about this crazy old uncle. Conversely he is quite dangerous; globally...

At this point however, America MUST ask herself what is so very wrong with this country that at the highest level of authority, when lives are being lost, when our very existence and certainly our credibility are at stake, why, as a nation, is there any willingness to tolerate such representation of us? This man, as a good friend put it, is an embarrassment not only to the US, but to the world. Other countries are no longer looking at America with admiration or envy but instead with horror and disbelief if not pity and shame and some, certainly with absolute glee and delight in anticipation of America's inevitable fall because karma, as we know, is a bitch! All for what America? Tolerance of a psychologically challenged, morally deprived, con man because he is white?, because he is male?, because he is racist? Really America?

Like the wealth given him by his crooked daddy and every company he has run into the sewer, donald trump has destroyed America. No longer is America the "go to" country to lead or show other nations the way. No longer is America the "come to" country successfully marketed since being built for free on the backs of the enslaved, as a nation where anything is possible, opportunities are unlimited and the streets are paved in gold. I am willing to bet that many who risked their lives abandoning country and family to get here are now wanting to return as American borders now have them locked in and the borders they fled have them locked out as American continues to ignore the reality of a very real pandemic. No longer are Americans welcome. No longer is that blue passport the ticket to have that opened most doors. Hell, even I feel trapped!.

The writing is on the wall. We are far less safe in America than in most other nations. Not only are we being annihilated by a virus that is being allowed to run rampant while trump and his clueless, complicit cohorts ignore or downplay the very existence of Corona all the while trying to convince us that it will miraculously dissipate in this "great" nation they are building, it is also clear that we are on the verge of civil unrest fueled by racism and an eventual resistance to the coup of our democracy, our way of life and/or the fall of our government when/if donald trump steals or is handed yet another election or when/if he refuses to relinquish the throne which will ignite military intervention. At some point, as the indifferent and greedy rich get richer while the poor, the middle class and unhealthy continue to die or are forced back to work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions to maintain wealth of the rich, there will be mass resistance in the streets and it ain't gonna' be pretty...

Trouble is a brewin' in America. Things are guaranteed to get far worse before they get better and still we sit by, seemingly defenseless, idly waiting for the tsunami that we see heading our way. It's all so especially incredible because this is not a new page in a very old playbook of political manipulation. We have read this book before. We know the ending. There is nothing new on the pages that we are refusing to read... And still, we do nothing. Now that's Incredible Folks!


America the victim. Since when?

America Trades Kool-Aid for Lysol...

So donald trump actually suggested that as a remedy for COVID-19 that perhaps Americans could disinfect ourselves from the inside out via inserting heat or intense ultra violet light rays through our skin and into the body, that we might ingest bleach or inject ourselves with household disinfectants.... 

When I first read it on Facebook, I refused to believe the headline. You know, fake news and all. Surely this could not be true. I would not take it for granted, I had to find the footage and hear it for myself. There just are no words. It was true. The guy occupying the white house and masquerading as President of the United States (POTUS), in all sincerity and seemingly in a show of sheer brilliance known only to him, he actually declared that any of the above methods, tantamount to acts of suicide, should be explored as remedies for Americans. Astounding! Not even the best comedy writer could have made that up. Yep! He really said that much to the obvious horror of the professionals around him who he pressured into tacit support of his lunacy...  

One could say that he doesn't realize the power of his words or the office he has commandeered. Oh but he does! What he doesn't realize is just how big an ass he is and just how absolutely embarrassing he is to our nation or just what a horrible influence he is to our youth and so many others, but especially our youth who otherwise look up to and aspire to be POTUS! He has demeaned the office and the nation yet he thinks himself genius and not one of his handlers dare fend for America. Not one...

Corona has become his 5th Avenue. He is doing his best to kill Americans, to include his foolish followers who will heed his advice and drink the special jim jones blend Kool-aid, who show up at his rallies and protests orchestrated by his henchmen in suits who could give a damn about them demanding a reopening of the economy therefore ensuring their own death, who will take hydrochloro-whatever it was and who will sadly heed his call and try to ingest or inject cleaning products or disinfectants. Pathetic...

American companies warning American citizens NOT to do something the "POTUS" said and STILL he has supporters and STILL the republicans back and spin stories for him. Today we are to believe him not our lying and horrified eyes but instead his spin that he was not being sarcastic, not serious when he made these outlandish remarks.  Click here and judge for yourself. That people are dying and the "POTUS" thinks humor or sarcasm even slightly appropriate is equally disturbing but that was not his intent. Incredibly, he was quite serious. 

STILL the media covers and broadcasts his every word. Why? I learned last week that there is a journalistic obligation to cover him to include his ridiculous rallies now turned press conferences, but there is no obligation to broadcast them, certainly not in their entirety. This guys is dangerous and there should be no live feed of him, Not Ever! Every time he speaks it should be aired on delay, in time enough for his words to be vetted. For the safety and sanity of the American people, last night should have been the final straw. He is exhausting sane Americans. It is the media that made him, it is the media that can break him by not feeding his insatiable and enormous ego and desire to be seen and heard and to feed red meat to his base of supporters. There is nothing to be gained with these afternoon rambling sessions of pure idiocy that he now holds in place of his racist, xenophobic rallies laced with baits of treason. His poor base. They are his sacrificial and foolish lambs. What ever will it take?   

STILL, We the People have not bum rushed the white house demanding his eviction. We have become a passive, or maybe just exhausted, people. Meanwhile... America ain't so great anymore as she trades Kool-Aid for Clorox and Lysol... 

  

AMERICA, NOT SO GREAT 

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