by Marceline Donaldson<\/p>\n
Something is oddly familiar in this “stand-off: now going on amongst our government officials, politicians, hopefuls and a very oppressed group which Alabama and others are trying desperately to contain and keep in their oppressed state. \u00a0Even the current Governor of Alabama has come public and done a modernized version of Governor George Wallace’s stand to keep African Americans from voting and therefore from their civil rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n
When I heard Governor Kay Ivey on television taking her incredibly historical stance, I could not see her face for the imposition of George Wallace’s face over her face and figure on television.<\/p>\n
Nothing hurts more than one of your own, standing up in the most self-righteous and arrogant way, selling you into slavery and she did that beautifully. \u00a0She did not lose her very southern lady-like composure in the process of spouting and spewing evil. \u00a0Clearly, the Republican Party has maintained its position as “Keepers of the Bigotry” which has long characterized Alabama. \u00a0Have you thought about or read the story of what happened on the Edmund Petus Bridge? \u00a0Do you see the parallels? \u00a0We’ve had the slaughter of the women. \u00a0It should now be time for the healing oil and who will do the pouring of that oil to heal our sins?<\/p>\n
True – other states and areas do the same, but somehow the theatrics in Alabama and its connecting its maintenance of bigotry to a religion with its own theology is unique. \u00a0We know well this heretical religion. \u00a0The one which has been developing since slavery and which was used to justify and maintain slavery. \u00a0We have lived with it in many places across these United States and still are living with its remnants. You know the religion. \u00a0The one where you went into one of its churches and found you could only sit in the back pews, if you were African American – or you could only sit in the balcony – or you were taken out of the church by the ushers if you were African American because you were not allowed into those particular churches.<\/p>\n
They still exist today and you can tell them almost upon entering into their ‘holy’ places. \u00a0You look on their altar and you see those officiating are almost uniformly white. \u00a0Maybe a child of color or two, but the adults of color are missing. \u00a0You hear their sermons and they lack that something you hear in other churches. \u00a0Their ‘leaders’ are ‘leading’ to gain a foot up in their jobs or chosen vocations. \u00a0They are doing everything they can to help those like them maintain their facade of being ‘better than’. \u00a0Those more enlightened heretical churches are doing some of the most foolish things you can imagine, but as you watch, they call those things their ‘holy rituals.’ \u00a0And it becomes clear after a short time that they are keeping the bigotry and maintaining the image of superiority of the white males of Northern European ancestry – those in their midst and the others spread around the globe. You have to leave that space because what you also see and experience is their meanness when pushed to see and remove the bigotry and heresy they practice. \u00a0It is time, however, for them and us to do just that!<\/p>\n
The blanket has been ripped off. \u00a0The psychic violence and physical and emotional destructive confrontation on the Edmund Petus Bridge has happened as the current Governor has let the rest of us see and hear her ‘religious’ beliefs, which are indicative of the many in Alabama who she represents – male, female of all stripes and colors. \u00a0She has made a very clear statement that she prefers her political party with all of its shame and sin to anything else because she knows they will continue in the ways of the vile past and they will continue holding her and others like her up in their belief that they are ‘better than’ everyone in the world not like them. \u00a0Her very words, however, show clearly that she is not free and equal, she is the governor, but she clearly neither respects her gender nor others around her who are neither white nor of Northern European ancestry.<\/p>\n
Governor Ivey today – as did Governor Wallace in yesteryear – has given the green light to the worst kind of evil. \u00a0She has called her state to shame themselves. \u00a0She has declared her bigotry and the fact that she is conscious of her bigotry and will continue to practice it because that is what she sees her position as governor calling her to do. \u00a0 She has called her state to let the world know that the citizens of Alabama prefer their bigotry and will maintain it defending themselves against positive change even while exposing their children to the sin of pedophilia, psychic and physical sexual abuse, lying, cheating, \u00a0which she has depicted as just fine and good and righteous choices if made defending their ‘white is better than’ status and their declared right to dishonor – disrespect – and so much more – those with whom they share this earth if those people are neither ‘white’ nor ‘male with Northern European ancestry’. \u00a0What lessons those children are learning from their parents.<\/p>\n
We are back on the Edmund Petus Bridge. \u00a0 Because of the lessons this current generation learned, while children watching their parents as they cheered for George Wallace and his friends \u00a0on the bridge using it as their bully pulpit. \u00a0 They watched as some of their adult neighbors brutalized, beat and tried to slaughter African Americans and those supporting them on that Edmund Petus Bridge.<\/p>\n
The children were present and silently watching that entire drama and so today we have that generation, all grown up, doing their best to follow in the footsteps of their parents, their friends, their government figures, their politicians. \u00a0They are going where this evil is leading and, in the end, they will pay the price.<\/p>\n
Many of those children have adopted the religion of their parents – who themselves adopted and adapted the religion of the slaveholders and slave owners before them. \u00a0They have seen their parents and grandparents erect memorials to those who did their best to keep human beings enslaved because they wanted ‘free’ labor and wanted that ‘better than’, ‘white is superior’, white supremacy identity. \u00a0They saw the KKK in their white sheets and pointy caps circling those lit crosses. \u00a0They saw African Americans turned away at their city halls in brutal ways when they tried to vote; these children knew the U. S. Constitution was being violated in the process; and they were present in the home where their mothers and aunts and female cousins were treated as second class citizens; they were present in the rest of society to see those same relatives, all dressed up and play acting to avoid their reality as they were treated as the household servants. \u00a0They understood who they were and the positions they would take before they reached voting age and they are now taking those positions.<\/p>\n
When you sow the wind – you reap the whirlwind.<\/p>\n
Alabama is and has been reaping the beginnings of that whirlwind when you look closely and you see it is one of the poorest states in the Union; when you see jobs scarce; when you see children going without; when you see the low level of education throughout the state; when you see the priorities of the politicians and government officials who are absorbed in maintaining their ‘better than’ status at a very high cost to everyone in the state; when you see the corruption overlooked because the ‘official’ is guarding your ‘better than’ identity; when you see all that has been wrought against Alabamians through their keeping their slaveowners religion above all else and crafting a political party which does the actual work the theology of that religion leads them to do.<\/p>\n
It is one of the great tragedies of these United States. \u00a0AND – not to be overlooked is the fact that our current president – Donald J. Trump – is very popular in this state which condones and gives him positive feedback on all of his evil deeds. \u00a0When you see this state raising up politicians who follow his footsteps as he has followed in the footsteps of Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Adolph Hitler, Stalin and today Vladimir Putin, as well as the leaders of the mafia organizations around the world.<\/p>\n
Sieg Heil Kay Ivey! \u00a0There were also Jews who sold out other Jews in Nazi Germany and even today there are African Americans selling out other African Americans for what they think will raise them up to the status of ‘almost, but not quite equal to’ – ‘at least not like them’ – ‘different from those others’ – etc.<\/p>\n
“Man’s inhumanity to man” – needs a political correctness overlay “We all die and move on out of this earthly sphere – yet we act as though some are better than and their human bodies will not rot. \u00a0The color of their skin and the kind of genitals they have will preserve them”. \u00a0Folly of follies are these humans, especially when they try to be ‘better than’. – At that point, the evil starts pouring out of them and their actions conform and are uniformly sinful no matter their money, status, history, education…….<\/p>\n
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