Thursday night I was flying back from Denver. I connected with a flight in Baltimore. Yeah, can you believe that? They flew me from Denver to Baltimore to come to Florida 🤷🏾.
So in the first leg of the flight I was speaking with a Black woman telling her that I needed to get the hell out of Florida. There was a white woman sitting next to her co-signing what I said and saying with an absolute look of fear on her face. "Yeah, get out of Florida", she said.
On the second leg of the flight I was sitting next to another white woman and when I started talking about Florida she asked me why I wanted to leave. And I said well, because soon they'll be rounding up Black folks trying to throw us on plantations. She responded with some exclamation of incredulity, like that could never happen. I don't remember her exact words but I raised her incredulity and told her that yeah, it could happen and people like her who voted for trump, which she did not deny, don't want to believe that they supported it or that their country is capable of such hatred. #slavery, how soon or how conveniently we forget. SMH...
She is not alone in that she just couldn't allow herself to accept that she had any part in electing something/someone so diabolical. I refrained from reminding her of America's history and/or that her vote and her silence are reminiscent of the Germans during the Holocaust... Has anyone shared with us the Jewish vote? There's been a lot of talk about Black and brown and white women votes, but what about the Jewish vote? How did that community vote? I digress, but not really...
Is it not amazing how everyone conveniently wants to forget the history that we already know? I shared with my flight partner a letter from Claflin University advising students about text messages being sent to students at this HBCU from the trump campaign warning that they would soon be put on plantations. She had no reaction. Of course those threats could be from a bot, but let's be clear, it is not far-fetched. Before I got off the plane I told her friend, not her, because she was much too "fragile", that she should watch the movie, Cosmic Slop, Space Traders. I told her she could find it on YouTube. Ms "I don't want to believe it", wrote it down. I wonder if she'll watch it...
I don't know what people are telling themselves who voted for trump. Let's be clear however, this is not about trump. He is merely the current face of many others that came before him. This is deeper than trump. This is an ideology. This is the republican party that has been feeding this kind of hatred for decades. They have now been consumed by the beast they fed. The few decent folks who are in that party now have to live with what they've created because trump is a manifestation of them. trump is the face of the very foundation of America which is built on racism and hatred and delusions of white superiority, all of that.
That is what we saw on Tuesday folks. We saw America show her true face. For many of us, it was just a confirmation of what we already knew, maybe we wanted to believe something else, but we already knew it. Now everybody else gets to own it because there is no denying that your back room conversations are now in the front room for everybody to hear.
trumpsters are your neighbors. trumpsters are your doctors and your lawyers. trumpsters are the police officers who stop and beat the shit out of you, now with impunity more than ever. They are judges who unfairly sentence you to harsh and sometimes infinite sentences. trumpsters are your school teachers and college professors feeding your mind with their narratives of heightened versions of themselves and their inferior version of you. trumpsters are the the parents of the person with whom you have procreated, sometimes they are even that person who tells themselves that you are "different than the other Blacks". trumpsters are your coworkers, that recruiter who won't hire you, that supervisor who won't promote you and who never evaluates or pays you fairly. trumpsters are those "good liberals" protesting in the "good fight" with, for, and alongside you. trumpsters are everywhere folks. If you didn't know that in 2020, you damn sure better know it in 2024.
At the end of the day, it's about the survival of whiteness. It has nothing to do with the fittest. It has everything to do with survival of whiteness. Take your blinders off people, no matter what side of the fence you sit on. And all you brown and yellow and even some "black" people who voted for trump, you're in for the rudest of awakenings. Do Not look to Black women to save you. We will not... We've done our part, as have our men.
As a community Black folks have repeatedly reflected the moral fiber of this country. We are the soul of this nation. Repeatedly, we have shown up at the polls and overwhelmingly voted to save America. Now it's time for America to either own the truth of who and what she is and stop fighting it or it is time for her to save herself from herself because we are tired. Miss me with the blue bracelets and the pink hats. #symbolism
The results of Tuesday will penetrate far beyond the reach of Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ, people of color, and whoever else is the intended target of this latest version of America's hate. White women, wake up. You're back on the chopping block too...
If ever there was need for God to Bless America, it would be now but I'm all prayed out ...
Black folks take care of you. We are all that we have and WE have ALWAYS proven to be enough. Believe that...
~ Miss Higgi
