My mother said that Obama was going to take away our rights as white women.
My grandparents wanted a garden, to grow vegetables, to survive the race war Obama was going to start.
Except he didn’t.
He didn’t violate the Constitution. He didn’t take away their guns.
In fact, his attempts to work with the party that (in many cases literally) demonized him frustrated us.
We knew there was no way to work with people who called him a racist for empathizing with Trayvon Martin’s parents.
We are at a crisis point, one that’s long in coming. The same party that told us racism was over is also full of White Supremacists–racists that the party and its leader won’t disavow.
When armed whites forced the Michigan government to stop functioning with their threats of violence, the President applauded. He encouraged an armed rebellion against his own country.
That same President then tear-gassed peaceful protesters this week and has incited lethal violence against them.
I’m watching white people bend themselves into ridiculous positions to write off the BLM movement.
Luckily for them, they’re very limber from all of the practice:
They believe that you can never question the police and somehow that there isn’t a single violent racist one.
If an unarmed black (or brown or “red”) person dies, it’s okay because that person broke the law once when they were a teenager.
If that person dies, it’s because they didn’t follow instructions nicely or fast enough.
Even if the did, it’s still okay if they died, because any time an officer is scared for a second, he gets to kill someone.
We aren’t allowed to have self-defense in these cases. No one can raise their hands to shield themselves or to try to run away or to say they can’t breathe. Any attempt to not to be murdered by the cop will be seen as exactly why the cop gets to kill the person.
After the murder, no one gets to protest.
If they do, they hate America and all cops and veterans and Jesus.
If they do, the Vice President will use tax payer dollars to protest them protesting.
If they do, the President will say they should lose their jobs.
However they choose to protest will be the wrong way.
If there’s even one violent protester, white people get to dismiss the entire movement.
What a relief for them.
