What a headline!! What an incredible end to the presidential election in the United States.
This is one of the few places where you will see such a headline from people who live under, accept and think this capitalistic democracy has something to offer the world – just not this bit of horribleness.
How that happened can be seen in all the people who now will spend lots of time and money sucking up to Donald Trump – the one who now has power and that power will deliver much money into his coffers. Those sucking up to him are those who want a small piece of that money and power to flow to them and they are willing to pay whatever price is asked for that to happen. Sit back and watch, America. You will see where many of those moving up in this administration have had their ethics, lifestyle and beliefs compromised way back when.
The United States has been a racist/sexist/misogynist country almost from its beginnings. We thought, this time, things would be different. Change would happen. Equality would flow into all the lives in this country, especially those who have had to live without experiencing such.
We saw many areas over the past several years where racism/sexism and all the other isms were having a time when those very bigoted areas were being pushed back and on the horizon was a more equal America. It shone brightly for all to see – or so we thought.
We thought we saw America becoming the country it claims to be. We thought we saw an America coming into being which actually respected every man and woman as equal – no matter their financial background – their racial background – their sex – their sexual orientation – their religious beliefs – and no matter the country from which they and/or their parents immigrated to these United States. We thought we saw mutual respect one for another. We thought all of the past ugliness was fading in the way we thought we saw Kamala Harris’ acceptance as vice-president and as a presidential candidate.
How wrong we were. Our dreams were interfering with reality. Donald Trump and his surrogates were, instead, re-enforcing the negative racist stereotype of black women; they were doing everything they could to portray Latina’s in negative ways; they took every such group and denigrated them as much as they possibly could so a White Nationalist who is also a Convicted Felon could emerge and rule this nation/this country in ways to bring it into alignment with Hitler’s Germany. “Hitler speak” was all over the Trump campaign. It was recognized and talked about by all, but those backing Trump were those referred to as “less than” under Adolph Hitler so why would they notice; be worried, or see anything other than – “this could possibly be the way to re-elect Donald Trump.”
The clearest example of how this bigotry works is shown in the life of the woman Trump has chosen to be his number one representative. We all know the most effective African Americans to keep down other African Americans are those who are imbued with the same racism as their White Racist brothers and sisters. Here we have an example of a White Woman, imbued with the sexism which the man who chose her has in his DNA. She spent lots of time, energy, and more getting him elected in spite of the way he has publicly treated, talked about, joked about, put down women of all colors, complexions and sexual orientation. In spite of knowing the history of the man she was promoting and working extremely hard to get elected as president of these United States she persevered and her reward has been to be appointed Trump’s Chief of Staff and I am sure in coming days she will be acclaimed as a fantastic example of Trump’s ability to ignore the sexism in which he is steeped. Her example of the future where white women will be so honored, who are the counter part the African Americans who can only see themselves as moving ahead and up is to knuckle under accepting and promoting the inferiority of their own group while the rest of society “exceptionalities” them.
We go over the same things from one generation to the next and here is an example of how we maintain the sexism is which we and our ancestors have lived for generations.
CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! You have managed once again to maintain white northern european type males as superior to everyone else and to make sure the top of the ticket remains in their hands. One day there will be a reckoning – God’s reckoning for which we pray every day all day for it to come soon.
