A personal anecdote:
As some know I take/teach karate in suburban Minneapolis. (get my black belt next month) My instructor is a 40 something Black Woman who is a 4th degree Black Belt, raised a daughter on her own (who now is in her first year at DePaul) and works at a non-profit helping underprivileged minorities find jobs. She is one of the strongest willed impressive people I have ever met and I respect no one higher. I went to teach class tonight and she was sitting in her office completely destroyed. She was angry and almost in tears. Not just for her own lot, she can handle the inherent racism involved in all this...but she knows how things go with the GOP in charge people at her place get laid off which means less people finding jobs for those that need it. Not to mention, half our students are Latino, another quarter are Black or Muslim and this was a nice "F You" to them too. Whats worse is we know there were people in our school that voted for Drumpf or Johnson which to her is a real slap in the face. I have never seen her so dejected, so ready to quit...
The students were the same way. They are freaking out, no idea what to make of it. Thankfully they are still naive enough not to see what a bunch of people are saying...
Here is the thing a lot of us are here are upset, a lot of others are telling people to get over it. Some are trolling and some are false equivocating...but the thing is ultimately most of us are privileged enough not to have this really effect us on a personal level. But put yourself in the shoes of the people that Drumpf tore to shreds for months on end...and realize that 56 million people just said you dont matter and we buy what he is selling. We like to criticize Black people who dont respect authority or dont trust cops and the government...well let me ask you something with all the issues between Blacks and cops the last couple years on top of Drumpf and his party trying to suppress Black vote can you blame them? Watch Van Jones from last night or today...he is a genuine dude and he cant deal with what he saw.
Now imagine you are a Latino. You watched Drumpf insult your people literally since Day 1. He is talking mass deportation and building a wall. 56 million people just agreed with him.
Take a moment and take off your White Male glasses and look at things from the prospective of The Others. How would you feel? Look at what students did at Maple Grove High...look at what Drumpfers did in Pennsylvania with Swastikas...look at Shaun King's twitter feed. (and that is just 1 day!) Look at what happened at Drumpf rallies, look at what he advocated. This isnt about Left vs. Right...it is about basic human decency. There is no sides here except those that treat people as humans and those that respect no one but themselves. Every time some trolling ****** pretends this is the same as 2008/12 they are either completely ignoring/ambivalent to the race issue or they are honestly saying that electing a Black Democrat somehow made being a White Person lesser than. Most people that are upset arent upset that the GOP won, we are upset that a man who preached hate was able to have people hold their nose and elect him.
/endrant
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