What we're seeing today is to be blamed primarily on the Democrat Party and here's why. Following Obama's second election one could reasonably say that racism in America had been placed on life support; and that we had entered into a new and more enlightened era that we could honestly describe as "post racial." The recognition of this ne…
What we're seeing today is to be blamed primarily on the Democrat Party and here's why. Following Obama's second election one could reasonably say that racism in America had been placed on life support; and that we had entered into a new and more enlightened era that we could honestly describe as "post racial." The recognition of this new era should have left us embracing, dancing, and singing in the streets, replacing the old hopeful words "WE SHALL OVERCOME" with the new celebratory words "WE HAVE OVERCOME!" But instead, something more sinister happened. The Party that had for decades weened its base on rage and grievance, the Party that had for decades increasingly messaged to its constituents that one's essence could be defined by their gender, their sexuality, and their color; the Party that had for decades given their constituents an excuse and a safety net for their personal failures, that Party panicked! And in their panic, in a cynical, devious, and deceitful political ploy, that Party decided to double down on these old messages and strained to balance America's dwindling SUPPLY of racism with this new and desperate DEMAND for racism; strained to balance this SUPPLY and DEMAND problem by manufacturing new forms of racism that would defy reality; new machinations of racism like: "systemic racism," "implicit white bias," pervasive "white supremacy," "white privilege," "white tears," micro aggressions, and the ubiquitous need for "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" in the safest places in America, or in the world for that matter, U.S. college campuses. And so for the last 15-20 years I have watched the Party I supported most of my life, the Party whose platform was built on the foundation that fought to ensure that women, gays, lesbians, and minorities, received the unfulfilled freedoms that our great constitution promised them, I watched as that Party devolved into a Party built on a new foundation of deceit, division, and destruction, a Party that I'm certain was not part of MLK's dream, but may very well have been part of his nightmares.
What we're seeing today is to be blamed primarily on the Democrat Party and here's why. Following Obama's second election one could reasonably say that racism in America had been placed on life support; and that we had entered into a new and more enlightened era that we could honestly describe as "post racial." The recognition of this new era should have left us embracing, dancing, and singing in the streets, replacing the old hopeful words "WE SHALL OVERCOME" with the new celebratory words "WE HAVE OVERCOME!" But instead, something more sinister happened. The Party that had for decades weened its base on rage and grievance, the Party that had for decades increasingly messaged to its constituents that one's essence could be defined by their gender, their sexuality, and their color; the Party that had for decades given their constituents an excuse and a safety net for their personal failures, that Party panicked! And in their panic, in a cynical, devious, and deceitful political ploy, that Party decided to double down on these old messages and strained to balance America's dwindling SUPPLY of racism with this new and desperate DEMAND for racism; strained to balance this SUPPLY and DEMAND problem by manufacturing new forms of racism that would defy reality; new machinations of racism like: "systemic racism," "implicit white bias," pervasive "white supremacy," "white privilege," "white tears," micro aggressions, and the ubiquitous need for "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" in the safest places in America, or in the world for that matter, U.S. college campuses. And so for the last 15-20 years I have watched the Party I supported most of my life, the Party whose platform was built on the foundation that fought to ensure that women, gays, lesbians, and minorities, received the unfulfilled freedoms that our great constitution promised them, I watched as that Party devolved into a Party built on a new foundation of deceit, division, and destruction, a Party that I'm certain was not part of MLK's dream, but may very well have been part of his nightmares.