The Supreme Court? Ginsburg?
I knew by the look, she didn't have to say it, but she did!
I don't get involved in politics!
Who was alive and present among the don't-get-involved-in-politics Americans on January 6, 2020? If not in March, 2003?
And so many won't see the racism in even if one of the insurrections drove up to their home and, waving an assault rifle in one hand and a Confederate flag in the other, shouted, n----r! Or Jew! Or I'm coming for all Muslims!
Because they walk about refusing to be in the world, they can't see, refuse to see. I-don't-get-involved-in-politics helps legitimize those blinders worn like so many Nazi amulets on the clothing of the insurrectionists. These are the same Americans who can warn you about "looters" during the Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Look, see the "looters," as if a video on a cellphone is proof of anything. But then, if the video is meant to do a disservice to Black grief, Black anger; if the video is meant to demonize Black Lives Matter as a movement; and thereby, discredit Black protests altogether, then it's as "real" as the former president's insistence that he's still the president of the US.
Those Americans who don't talk politics attempt to silence dissent.
In the meantime, whose taxes fund law enforcement? Who pays for the bullets and the armor? Who paid for the gear that knocked down Breonna Taylor's door? The average American tax payer has funded the incarceration of Black people for decades, but, oh, please do hush up about "politics"!
Who allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to kill two people and wound another, and get back in his mommy's car and drive off with mommy back to Illinois? What entity allows this white young man to "disappear" in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and "reappear" in hiding for his protection, after he has killed?
Black people die with only cellphones in their hands!
Black people sleeping in their beds, die!
Rittenhouse is like the insurrectionists, treated as "gentlemen" and gentle ladies, sent home to mothers, even if fully grown adults, to wait for court dates. Little 12-year old Tamir Rice didn't have a chance to say anything in his defense because the police officer mistook the child's play gun for a real gun.
What the Turtle, Mitch McConnell, has to say matters in that his use of power is a practice in violence. He's proven himself completely indifference towards the lives of people of color and is quite willing to destroy our lives rather than make our lives worth living. McConnell is not alone; he and other like him in Congress have breed whole generations of American zombies who are then voted into Congress by, in turn, indifferent Americans who drop off the map of the living, intentionally! A Trump gave them room to replicate themselves, but this characteristic of indifference is an American-go-to-staple when a crisis seems pending. And a pending crisis always has the blurring of racial difference at its core. It's no accident that we are hearing the old antebellum term, "miscegenation" again! Some fears, the more irrational, never die!
It matters that I'm paying for the Saudis and the Israelis to murder who populations of Yemenis while leaving millions without shelter, clean water or food. Does it anger me, yes, as if should. As it should any America.
What does it mean when we say, US-supported war? It means this: that Boeing received, according to the June 2019 issue of In These Times , some 21+ billion dollars, Lockheed Martin, 7.2+ billion, Raytheon, 1.8+ billion, General Electric, 1.2+ billion, and General Dynamics, 124+ million, and all that money assists the Saudis in their practice of violence against the Yemenis.
Smart surveillance is usually included in these huge packages of American money handed off to another nation that, in turn, monitors its "enemies" just as the US spends so much tax-paying dollars monitor Black Lives activists or any Black who advocates for social justice and democratic values. Somehow, red flags are flying all over the Internet, held up by white Americans proclaiming their allegiance to "Hitler," to Trump, to "Q," to anything that smacks of violence, particularly violence against people of color.
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