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WiseGuyEddie @wiseguyeddie@stranger.socialI am an absolute wreck today. I feel duped. I honestly bought into the promise of the "American Dream".
I tried to do what I could to help (even in the simple act of voting) to save Democracy. I was convinced that this country was equitable and fair and that ultimately our collective common good would win. What a fool I feel like today.
Me, a black man, knowing and studying the history of this country was still fooled into believing this is a land for me. I fucked around and found out.
@wiseguyeddie@stranger.social You're not alone.
We need to start thinking like the French Resistance, not the Allied Forces. We're in an asymmetrical war and we're the underdogs.
@notroot I'm at a crossroads. What am I to do. My anger right now cannot be quelled. I feel as though this country has turned its back on me.
All the sacrifices of my ancestors, the marches, the lynchings, slavery, lack of unequal justice under the law, the list goes on and on.
I feel like I have been duped. White America told me with their vote that they want a white Christian nation. America has told me that this is not a country for black people.
@wiseguyeddie@stranger.social I'm a middle-aged white man -- precisely the demographic who did this to us -- and I am heartbroken for this nation.
The whole reason I could ever say I was a "patriot" was the progress we thought we had made since the Civil Rights Era. That hope for MORE progress in the same direction.
Now I see that I was deluded. My fellow white male Americans are mostly garbage people. A garbage nation filled with mostly garbage people.
So I threw my American flag in the trash this morning. Yeah, I was still half-drunk. I've since escalated that state of mind to fully Day-Drunk at 10am.
@notroot You have no idea how much I need you today. I'm not racist at all (my wife is white) but I am so disappointed and outraged today. I feel like a man with no country.
I really feel like I got punked. I did everything that white America said I should do to be "American". I'm educated, hard-working, etc. And the goal post got moved. The rules have changed. It was made clear that whatever I do, I'm still not white. Which means I will NEVER be good enough for America.
@wiseguyeddie@stranger.social You're not alone there, either. We all got punked, and the rules did change... back to like 1956. They plan to roll our progress back even more.
I'm nauseous over what America has reverted to. But I'm clear on who to blame: white people, and latino men. They didn't just roll back our rights. They embarked us on a new, authoritarian course that will not be corrected in my lifetime.
@wiseguyeddie @notroot I wish I were in a state to say anything useful and not bitter. There never were any goalposts. They’re pretty paintings on distant walls that everyone who’s not already rich and white is supposed to run towards until we smash our faces if we somehow even get close.
Edit: yep, Roadrunner cartoons. That’s my level of analysis. Where’s my honorary degree.