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My complaints about my birthday feel even more petty considering the turn the country has taken since last week.
Tonight the man who claims to be president had peaceful protesters attacked by police so he could walk across the street and have a photo op in front of a church. This after giving a speech where he threatened to send out the military against American citizens protesting police brutality and the systemic racism poisoning the country. It was the speech of a fascist.
This country is burning and frankly, it deserves to burn some.
The priorities of this country are clear - no way to enforce stay at home orders, no way to get supplies, no way to get medical care or provide access to people. The bare minimum to help them. Funds meant to help small business looted. White people screaming about their need for a hair cut and "tyranny" went armed with guns to statehouses without nary a blink from the police.
People protest police brutality after police murdered a man in broad daylight on the street, and they turn convention centers into military bases overnight, bring out the national guard and start enforcing curfews. Peaceful protests chanting black lives matter are gassed and shot with less lethal rounds.
This is what America is. This is the fruit of a poisoned tree, a nation that was built on the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of black people.
I think about 2016. About that SNL skit and that card "He will kill us all." About my boss at the time telling me things would be fine for white men. About everyone who said we were overreacting when we cried and went numb and scared after the election. About how we could have had something other than this, and we're here now, and we may not make it to November between the virus and the violence.
Tonight the man who claims to be president had peaceful protesters attacked by police so he could walk across the street and have a photo op in front of a church. This after giving a speech where he threatened to send out the military against American citizens protesting police brutality and the systemic racism poisoning the country. It was the speech of a fascist.
This country is burning and frankly, it deserves to burn some.
The priorities of this country are clear - no way to enforce stay at home orders, no way to get supplies, no way to get medical care or provide access to people. The bare minimum to help them. Funds meant to help small business looted. White people screaming about their need for a hair cut and "tyranny" went armed with guns to statehouses without nary a blink from the police.
People protest police brutality after police murdered a man in broad daylight on the street, and they turn convention centers into military bases overnight, bring out the national guard and start enforcing curfews. Peaceful protests chanting black lives matter are gassed and shot with less lethal rounds.
This is what America is. This is the fruit of a poisoned tree, a nation that was built on the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of black people.
I think about 2016. About that SNL skit and that card "He will kill us all." About my boss at the time telling me things would be fine for white men. About everyone who said we were overreacting when we cried and went numb and scared after the election. About how we could have had something other than this, and we're here now, and we may not make it to November between the virus and the violence.