Black people have taken over their country! That's the big lie. And sure, a man like Trump can come along and push this lie further long the road; however, we've seen it in the way whites have with out fear of consequences made life hell for black people in the US.
Black people have become too damn visible. President of the United States and now one is the Vice President and a woman!
Too much! The pain killers are no longer effective. Anyway, why the bother with a cover up, a damper?
And whose country is it anyway?
If I tell someone here in Kenosha that I write for this online magazine, the Black Commentator, I'm likely to receive a look that should be directed at a Proud Boy or anyone of the guys with trucks flying Confederate flags. I'm on some "social media" site, disseminating a hateful rant against white people! Maybe I'm a member of Black Lives Matter or the Black Panthers, the Black Muslims something Black, she said ! Because we can't be proudly of being black , no! That's equivalent to being anti-whiteness. And who in their right mind wants to be anti-whiteness, huh?
Kenosha downtown was damaged by Black Lives Matter protesters not anti-black rioters. I have yet to have a white mention Kyle Rittenhouse's violence to me. But they will remind me that blacks are violent. Blacks might as well be responsible for the shooting of Jacob Blake by Rustin Sheskey whom the Kenosha DA thought acted in "self defense."
While Kenosha prepared for a potential protest from black residents, some local police as well as police from New York and transit cops from Philadelphia, waved white rioters through to the interior of the Capitol. These mobs were determined to destroy and even kill members of Congress, the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Vice President Mike Pence; however, these guys were invisible violent elements of US culture. Like Rittenhouse that evening in Kenosha, with his long rifle in hand, he's offered water by the local police. As a young white man, even armed with long rifle, he's normal . That is, not so visible as the "criminal," "terrorists," "instigators."
How can anyone see an instigator when he or she is white and the narrative says she's a "patriot." He's a "good ole' boy." They are the innocent. The very people this US of A was meant for?
White lives matter!
The residents of the small southern town had already begun referring to him as the "dark" man. Mid-way the novel, Sanctuary, the moment he is arrested and placed in the town's jail, he's the "dark" man, accused of kidnapping, holding hostage, and repeatedly raping the judge's daughter. Anticipating the men calling for a noose around the "dark" man's neck, the narrative begs its readers to imagine the inevitable. The "dark" man's attorney, Horace Gowan, viewing the scene of the crime, realized "that there is a logical pattern to evil." Little lies, little lies!
In the courtroom, the big lie declares a delusion a reality. The district attorney offers to the jury evidence: "'This object,'" he claimed, "which was found at the scene of the crime,'" and he points to the criminal in the court room.
But the actual criminal wasn't held as a spectacle within the justice system, since he stood, literally, outside the court building.
And so, the "dark" man, a bystander, a cheerleader even for the man who actually kidnapped and raped the young woman with a corncob, meets the fate usually reserved for "dark" men. That the "dark" man so described, at first, in the narrative as a white man, becomes "dark."
Everyone, in time, comes to recognize in their town a "dark" man as "criminal." A black man, in fact, or a white man, for that matter, any American, who has fallen out of whiteness.
The mob pulled the "dark" man out of jail that night. The night he's convicted of the crime. Gowan saw the glare from the fire. He saw figures running toward the jail. They had received the signal. Some smelled the gasoline. Another signal that good old American fun was about to start. Those running to engage, were "panting" and "shouting." And then Gowan heard the man screaming and saw the flames surrounding him.
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