Dear Uneducated Blue Collar Rural Poor White People

Dear uneducated, blue collar, rural , poor white people,

Since you're uneducated I promise not to use very big words because you probably won't understand the meaning and I don't want to further insult you.

What you did on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 was show the world that although you might be classified as dumb, ignorant and stupid, you were pretty darn smart when you got Bobby Jo, Cooter, Cletus, Mary Lou, Savannah Jean and everyone else in rural white america to drive their pick-ups down to the polls to vote for your man, Donald Trump.  And to think the pollsters and all of the so-called intelligent think-tankers got it wrong.  They said "There's no chance in hell that buffoon can win!  The country will never stand for a bigoted, racist womanizer who says he will make America great and white again."  Hello No!  That won't happen.

But ha! ha! uneducated, blue collar, rural, poor white people....the joke was on Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of those liberal, communist, mainstream media jokers because, once again, you showed how darn-tootin' smart you were by believing in Fox News as much as you believe in the Bible and you showed up at the Trump rallies fired up and ready to punch out anybody who protested against him.  And some of you made national headlines Ya-hoo!!!

Trump spoke the language you've been speaking and wanting to hear from a Presidential Candidate since you heard your pappy tell you about George Wallace's campaign slogan of"Segregation now, Segregation forever!" back in 1968.  He was a real son of the South for down-trodden southern whites.

Dear uneducated white people, you also showed those lazy, no good, no votin' niggas and those prissy little college-educated white women that your voice would be heard at the ballot box and you did it loud and clear.  You can be proud of what you did because for the first time in a long time YOU actually made a difference. 

You can now be proud to know you have some claim to the White House--yes it's the WHITE house.  It doesn't matter how many times your President has disrespected and sexually assaulted women because your uncle Bobby Ray, Billy Bob and Bodean have probably done it so many times they've lost count.  And I bet you are now looking for all those nude photos the First Lady-elect posed for as a model (if you don't already have them).  

The next four years should be a good ol' hell raisin', take off your kkk hoods time for ya'll!

But dear uneducated, blue collar, rural , poor white people, I hate to tell you the joke is going to be on you.  And don't say I didn't warn you.

Peace be with you.

Black Lives Matter No Matter How Old You Are

A few months ago I bought a Black Lives Matter T-shirt.  

I LOVE wearing it!  If I could wear it every day I would.  It makes a statement on how I feel about the state of race relations in this country.  It should say to anyone who sees me that I care about the mistreatment and downright brutality being levied against our people---especially the young black males.

This brings me to an incident I had today at Harris Teeter.  I was standing in line behind another older black woman.  She saw my shirt and proceeded to comment about how she didn't understand what the movement was all about and why was it necessary to make a t-shirt to demonstrate.  Being the soft-spoken person that I am, I told her it was no different than what young people did during the 60s and 70s movement and I wanted young people to to know I stand in solidarity with them.  

You know, I am always amazed at how older people tend to forget they were young once and all of the things they did---right or wrong/good or bad---for the "cause."  Once we turn a certain age we become holier than thou and act as if everything is okay the way it is.  We turn a blind eye to the things we see and read and what we hear falls on deaf ears.  

Police brutality against blacks didn't just start in the new millennium.  The only difference is there was no social media back then---no camera to record what was really going on. And, unlike, many of today's youth, a lot of people, back in the day, stayed silent in fear of what might happen to them.  Perhaps the woman in Harris Teeter feels like her fight is over and she chooses to remain silent, but as for me I'm going to keep wearing my Black Lives Matter T-shirt because I know the struggle is very real and it continues. 

As Desmond Tutu once said, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."