I hope like hell this isnt going away. The way its trending its not going to. The video phone murder of George Floyd is so upsetting, so infuriating, so almost impossible to watch for any person of any race, this movement needs to keep its momentum. The smug Derek Chauvin, hand in pocket, reacting to people telling him to stop killing a helpless man begging for air and eventually his mother by increasing the pressure on a mans neck is what is fueling this crusade. Chauvin represents every asshole you ever ran into in high school. A bully with support from hangers on. The kind of guy you wish somebody would just beat the shit out of and end the terror. The most punchable face I've seen in years. George Floyd can be the catalyst for real change and though George is dead (though enjoying the economic news from afar) his brutal murder has pissed off everybody.
Lets go through the history of Black Lives in this country. Its not pretty. Cuz Black Lives Didnt Matter.
1619-1865 Slavery
1865-1965- Jim Crow
1965-1975- Vietnam
1975-1980- Unemployment
1980-1995- De Facto White Supremacy in the White House
1995-2017- Mass incarceration
2017-2020- Mass incarceration AND Out Loud White Supremacy in the White House
So basically we have returned to 1619 by felonizing Black Lives. The Black lives destroyed by white dominated courts and cynical politicians is in the millions. This smoldering fire has been in a dumpster for about 400 years and yeah every now and then it starts blazing but eventually it gets put out by either boredom by the whites or the exhaustion of the POC's. But this, George Floyd's horrendous cruel murder by everybody's least favorite bully, and that of Breonna Taylor, murdered in her own bed by Louisville storm troopers who cant read addresses, has thrown gasoline on that smoldering inferno. Goddammit fan the flames.
Every statue of a murderous traitor , protected by Republican racists, that has come down by force makes me cheer. Christopher Columbus, Jefferson Davis, Charles Linn, JEB Stuart, all these statues are a disgrace to this nation. After all, there are no statues of Goebbels or Jodl or Himmler or Hitler himself in Germany. They have the sense to realize the damage done by those maniacs that stays with that country to this day. The United States does not get it. In fact, most of the statues of the savage turncoats who died on a hill of owning other human beings were not installed until the civil rights era and after just to remind the uppity folk of who runs the show. Tear em all down because the Republican Governors and legislators lack the decency and humanity to end the racist in your face hunks of metal.
Meanwhile the Racist in Chief, still reeling from his plunging popularity, will begin to hold his White Power Pep Rallies again next week in a not a dog whistle way. Its out loud from now on. Despite the pandemic, The Whitey in Chief will pack 19,000 morons into an arena on June 19th in Tulsa, Oklahoma to put lotion on his fragile ego. Packing 19,000 nitwits into a closed space, probably maskless because yeah you know masks= pussy, is dangerous to the public health. I dont give a rats ass if a bunch of mouth breathing shitheels all give each other a deadly disease, that just proves what a death cult it is, but I do care when these same lamebrains waddle out and start spreading it to innocents.
Tulsa? June 19th?
Jesus Christ, why not just burn a fucking cross and attract vermin and disease spreading mosquitoes?
June 19th--Juneteenth? The day slaves in Texas finally found out they were "free" from their white masters 2 1/2 years after they were actually freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Tulsa? The place where a massacre of blacks by white losers pissed off there was a Black Wall Street occurred in 1921. That story STILL needs to be told. And not by a white supremacist in front of 19000 other white fanatics,
Yeah the Bigot in Chief may not be intellectually capable of putting 1 plus 1 equal Votes from Racists together but y'all know Stephen Miller flew in from his coffin one night and came up with that idea. What was that about "Deplorables"?
To get back to the original idea, Black lives havent mattered much for 400 years and to many they still dont (I can think of about 19000 Okies right off the bat). But to many many more people, George Floyds cold blooded murder has shown that Black Lives Do Matter.
The Mo must be maintained. For all our sakes.
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