What Now?
Having witnessed a new administration being sworn in, provided me a moment of relief, a reprieve if you will, from the anxiousness that I felt everyday upon waking and knowing that the news was going to provide me with more traumatic developments because the President wanted to “Make America Great Again.” It’s hard hearing the new President say that the country needs “unity.” That implies that those that have been victimized, vilified, and demonized by the previous administration, are supposed to somehow “get over” our pain, our grievances, our losses; that we in some way are responsible for the disunity that the country now faces. It’s our fault, right? To forget about the cold blooded murder of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and those that proceeded them, beginning with the start of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. (#SAYTHEIRNAMES) Our losses have been many. We’ve prayed, marched, built and then died for this country that is determined to keep us three fifths of a human. Are we to forget about the summer of Black Lives Matter protests that promulgated the country? To forget about the 400,000 lives that were lost to COVID, due in part to the lack of planning, or even caring by the trump administration. Asking us to unify…How???!!!
We need a reckoning of these past grievances, a recognition of the pain caused, and the trauma that we carry in our DNA even today. The victims are owed that and much more. Having a Black woman vice president of the United States isn’t going to fix this. If anything we need to be careful NOT to tokenize her or what she represents. Still, it’s not enough.
Most ethnic and racial groups that petition our government through lobbying, demonstration, etc., will have their concerns heard, and even given some mollification for their grievances. Not Black people. We thought just having a Black president was going to change our lives for the better. For some reason, we’re never been a priority in any administration. Oh the platitudes get thrown around, lip service always, but at the end of the day, we’re still asked to be patient and non-violent, while we await another 100 years just wanting to have our humanity recognized and brought into the fabric of America.
This time the onus isn’t on the disenfranchised, the broken and the poor. The onus is on those that stormed, rioted, and caused destruction to our nation’s Capital with the intent of overthrowing the US elections by any means necessary, including the murder of those who opposed them. This mob that showed their true colors, who say that they “back the blue”were indeed fighting and in some cases attempting to injure or kill these police officers who were attempting to stop the terror being demonstrated by this unholy mob. These are some of the so-called “good white” people that I told you about last time.
The only unity I see right now is white supremacists and their ilk being united in the intent to disrupt, destroy and kill those who do not embrace their ideologies, their faith in white supremacy. And I’m not down with that.
