The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

You got to love the Republican Party, the one they themselves like to refer to as the Party of Lincoln, the Grand Old Party. Old, for sure; grand, not so much … unless you mean grandfather. Lincoln? Lincoln would roll over in his grave. The last black guy in the House of Reps just announced he won’t run next term. You could almost hear the applause from out here on the West Coast. Time for the token black to hit the road, return the club to an all white country club set once again. Making America Great Again, yah shure, you betcha.

Me, I’m old and I’m a white guy. Angry too a lot of the time. But I don’t think returning to pre-Civil Rights is going to make this country great again. I guess it’s only a matter of time before the dogwhistles become Jim Crow attacks. Racism never really went away, forget Obama being elected. It’s part of our national DNA and slavery is part of our history, shameful and inexcusable, I don’t care what the cultural norms were for the times. Send em back!? What, in slave ships?

I’m not sure where I stand on reparations, but I’m pretty sure where I stand on racism in this country. And I’m very sure what I think of this President’s pivot toward racial insults, dogwhistles and a nod to the so-called ‘Base’ who wouldn’t recognize a racist if he had a noose in his hand for the next lynching. The Confederacy never really died and slavery didn’t exactly end. You don’t think so, go down to rural Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, check out the indentured servitude still there, ask around about the local KKK, see who runs the county, the city, maybe the entire state. Tell me then who owns who.

The Republicans who enable this, the white boyz who avert their eyes and quiet their disagreement over every tweet and bully baiting, welcome to the time when the Reichstag let the Jews be stigmatized, then singled out, then gassed. Blame Hitler, sure, but the others stood silent, afraid of losing office or power, but never afraid of losing their morality, eventually their souls. No, I don’t think Donald plans to set up camps. I don’t even think he plans to send em back. He just wants to win another four years of narcissistic spotlight, and if playing the race card works, Mr. T will stoop to conquer.

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