Sleepless in Jackson

 4:15 a.m. and I honestly can not sleep. Images of them White men, so angry, shaking torches and chanting Nazi slogans periodically run thru my mind. I try to distract myself by watching Rick & Morty, reading a book, writing a little but nothing stops those images.
     When that bitch Trump won I knew that America was in for some ugly times ahead. His family, all of them his tramp wife included, are going to rip this country off and in the meantime they are going to wreak havoc on the citizens of this country. We spent the last part of Obama's term watching the racism of this nation come to a boiling point. The shooting of unarmed Black men, the police killings of Native Americans, the Standing Rock protest, the infamous "wall" and deportation and tearing apart of South American families. All things that are supposedly "UN-American" but in reality are as American as the Confederate flag.
     Trump rally's were cathartic for the degenerates and deplorable of the right. He would rally them all to a fever pitch by using coded language, threats, kicking people out of the building, talking openly about his disdain for women, the military power of America and the perceived differences between those on the right and those on the left. Just to show how stupid Republicans and conservatives, they think elitist pigs like Trump and the Bush family can relate to the unwashed inbred toothless masses that make up the right. The talking heads you see in the conservative media, which is all media, are the cream of the crop for the right. They melt like butter in the hot sun when faced off with a liberal with a spine and a brain, not your Alan Holmes type. I don't care who says what, God was NOT present at those gatherings but the devils had front row seats.
     The incidents of White folks, men and women, going off on people of color in supermarkets and malls were and are going viral and getting more and more popular. The hatred and venom spewed by these shitbricks is old old language. We, Brown and Black folks, have heard this for years. I was called a spick by both kids and adults when I was little. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and the tension of the civil rights movement was still in the air and the complaint that Latino's and Blacks and Indians were "complaining" and "troublemakers" was heard so often it may as well have been a chant. All of that has come back and it has come back with a renewed vigor. Social Media has shrunk the world, which is a double edged sword, and people have forgotten how to talk to one another. People can say whatever they want online, things they would never dare say in public, but that boundary is disappearing quickly. We saw that when we saw Nazi salutes and chants of "Blood and Soil" and "Jews don't own us" and "White Lives Matter". These are Trump's base and he knows it. He tried to blame both sides but show me where those on the left have gathered with such violence, with guns, sticks, shields and the flags of traitors to America who lost the civil war. Show me the Alex Jones of the left who fuel the fire talking about how the White man is under attack without giving real examples. Just because someone says, "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" doesn't mean Sharia law is in effect.
     Those of us who pray need to direct our prayers to each other. The time to pray for our enemies, and like it or not that is what they are, is long long gone. Fascists wants us gone, Removed. Dead. They don't think we are as human as them and therefore do not deserve what they have or want. These people are not people that you can sit and have a beer with and hope to convince them that we are all connected. They are beyond that. We need to pray for one another and our safety, our courage, our love and our children. There are enough of us who are liberal, not the snowflake social justice warriors who demand we use "non-binary" definitions and identity politics, but who know that our connection is a reality and WE are the ones who can and must, there is no time for anything but MUST, gather together and take control of the future of our country. We have to somehow send a message that racism and hatred has to die once and for all and even more than that we need to get Trump, Pence, Bannon and every Republican out of any position of power in this country and put in their place people who value a personal relationship with The Creator that is no one else's business, and a love and a real tangible compassion for each other, We only want the best for each other. THAT should be the real American way,