PHOTOGRAPHED ON ST. CLAUDE AVENUE, JUST NORTH OF THE BASCULE BRIDGE
I am a
white male, born into every opportunity this land affords.
And I take
zero offense at those who call the presidency a white supremacy nation.
I don't know
how else to evaluate the vast majority of the GOP -- in the White House,
Senate, Congress.
These people
were born in to far more wealth and privilege than I ever was.
And instead of
using that natural advantage to level the playing field for those not born with
10 silver spoons, they have ganged up against anyone considered a minority by
any definition.
I am sick to
my stomach, disgusted.
I sit here with a roof over head, car in the drive, food
in my belly, work that challenges me to be creative.
But I feel
like this must be what it was like before the Nazis took over Germany, the
Fascists Italy and KKK the South and beyond.
As a person
who voted for Obama twice, and if anything my only small criticism was he
didn't use his superior brain and quick wit more to push a progressive agenda
farther, I am truly shocked of the backlash at a black man in the White House.
I knew we
still had problems...but when he won two terms...I quite foolishly thought
maybe we were turning the corner on equality and fair play.
I was dead
wrong.
It wasn't a
couple people hiding in the boonies, seething with hate.
It was
upwards of half of this nation.
It is
heartbreaking.
It is,
without resistance, enough to break the spirit.
But that's
what Trump and his brotherhood of bastards want.
So we must
channel our fears into hope.
We must
challenge this regime -- or things will get worse then when a person of color
could "pay" for a sideways glance with the loss of life via lynching.
And that,
cannot be our America.
It cannot be
anyone's America.
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