There
are too many people [with] finite minds and beliefs, [who] have too
much control over the infinite possibilities of the United States of
America.
DL Hughley
Three-years-ago
I wrote America would not elect another white male president for
another decade or two. I was wrong.
Donald Trump reawakened a sleeping monster; old white racist voter.
It wasn’t just that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote
(reportedly over 2 million by now). She carried the youth vote and
the black vote in key states.
It’s
not that White Americans ignored the warning signs, Trump’s
warning sign is in his name, he wants to get over on you. What’s
in a name you say? Some of the same people who gave much of their
life savings and earnings to a man named Madoff-and he made-off with
millions before he was finally busted-voted for Trump. My home team
the Buffalo Bills once hired a coach named Malarky and fully expected
him to win, their new owners were biting their nails over a coach
with a dog’s name for almost 3 years until they shooed him off.
One of the guys in the front office where I work told me the day
after the election; “you know Trump is just acting right?”
I’m sure the same thing was said about a young man in Germany
who failed his art school entrance exam twice over (1906 and 1907),
he never recovered as bitterness turned to narcissism and then
outright hate, resulting in a holocaust and a world war. How many
people thought that Jim Jones was just acting before 1978?
While
we are not privy to the conversation that transpired between
President Obama and Trump a couple days after the election, he had
been sounding somewhat sane (by Trump standards) in the immediate
aftermath. It’s doubtful the real estate mogul masquerading as
a political outsider approached the President with the same
Mississippi-butt-crack-stupid demeanor that became a hallmark of his
campaign. No doubt Obama briefed the President-elect to keep his
orange p***y-grabbing fingers off his bills and executive orders,
beyond the diplomatic summary
given to the public.
It
didn’t take long before Trump returned back to normal if his
choice of cabinet appointees are any indication, his so-called good
friend Dr. Ben Carson, a world-renowned brain surgeon-was tapped to
head no more than HUD. Dr. Carson-not having enough brains to know he
was marginalized-graciously accepted instead of remind The Donald his
position obviously makes him more qualified to be Surgeon General or
in charge of the FDA.
Perhaps
Trump was tapped to continue the job George W. Bush started; bankrupt
the country. Would it be irrational to assume that the deficit that
plummeted during W’s tenure and the rise of police brutality
too would soon cause an unrest that would justify an official
national police-state? In truth 1932 was the best year to bring about
Marshall Law because it was the Depression’s worst year, and of
course the crime-rate skyrocketed. But those were
Italian/Irish/Jewish/Mafia initiated crimes, not black crimes as is
being pushed today. Nothing happens without a reason, and a
suspiciously high number of conservatives are still fantasizing about
a future such as this and who better to bring it about than Trump? So
excited are many republican lawmakers, that they have taken
preemptive steps toward (with Trump’s blessing) abolishing
universal healthcare. My question to them is, why are they so anxious
to remove Romneycare? Couldn’t be because a black man initiated
it. So blinded by hate and anger over his accomplishments, that they
ignore President-Elect Trump’s most glaring fault; his
relationship to Vladimir Putin and the alleged role Russian
intelligence played in his victory. Granted Reagan wasn’t my
favorite President, but he would have concluded Putin to be full of
poop, as would Nixon, Ford, Carter, Kennedy, Roosevelt and Ike.
What’s Trump’s problem? Try mental illness.
A
product of generations of hate and discrimination toward blacks in
particular, Trump’s white male occhiolism
has degenerated to the point where he actually thinks one lone black
US President in history can or has reduced the importance of White
(male) America, and only he can save it. And turning to an old Cold
War enemy to help get him in the Oval Office makes sense to him, the
message is clear, even a foreign white male leader is better than our
black American President.
Trump
wants to dismantle Universal Health Care, Social Security (same as
their rising star Paul Ryan), and raise the age of medicare for
seniors. If he seems to you like he’s just going for pure
gratuitous emotionalism and not weighing the consequences to even
many White Americans, a huge chunk of them republicans, then you’re
right. Whenever a President spends 4 years cleaning up the previous
guy's mess, that means we don't really know that person because he
never really got a chance to tell us what he really wants for us
minus the time-consuming work of getting us back on track. It is
largely because of time spent cleaning up George W. Bush’s mess
that Obama didn’t have time to devote to a lot of black issues.
Just imagine the herculean task that lays ahead of whomever succeeds
Trump.
Most
troubling are his voters… all 62,979,636 of them. They voted
for open white supremacy (8
% were black),
and there’s examples of whites calling blacks the N-word and
making racist remarks because they naturally feel they’ve been
given
the green light.
I noted in a past column or two how Trump says things many whites
wish they could get away with saying. He also does things many White
American men wish they could get away with, one of those is sexual
assault.
Your white man’s fantasy president is currently due in court
soon fighting at the very least a lawsuit. Is this all a part of his
“acting?’ How about his ignoring
intelligence briefings,
or how about his little cold war against
the CIA?
I need to be sure please, so I can know when to laugh.
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