Not That Kind of Change: We Refuse!

I've taught a few pages of The Wretched of the Earth whenever I could get away with it, that is. But I've come back again and again to this particular work because I happen to be reading a historian or cultural theorist who also credits Frantz Fanon with an always timely discussion on violence.

And that discussion is timely now.

With all of the banning of books written, for the most part, by anyone not a white male, the outlawing of D. E. I. and the normalization of the white grievance narrative, permits white Americans, responding, even if unconsciously, to black achievement to express, once again, their feeling of being wronged. Civil Rights gains have to go! Critical Race Theory is evil! So is Black Lives Matter! Woke, no good! In the meantime, the dictator Putin is just fine! Today, it's MAGA. Yesterday, it was the Tea Party. After the Civil War, the KKK ran as a gang of terrorists. Always angry white, like today, slashing and slashing randomly.

I wonder if white Americans, appearing to town halls by the hundreds in cities and rural towns, understand what's happening? Do they understand that not just their vote, if for Trump, is what brought us here, to this moment ringing of danger. Do they understand that it's America's collective and relentless response to black achievement that has weakened and now endangered the survival of democracy in the US?

Toni Morrison, pointing to the absence of scholarship on black history back in 1974, reminded Americans that "a major part of American history is the history of black people". I'm coming to accept that these reminders of our existence and of our key role in what has become America (for good or bad) drives whites to erase that part of American history involving the violence of kidnapping, auctioning, enslavement, and oppression by law of black Americans.

See MEGA America, accompanied by world's-richest-man and South Afrikaner oligarch, screaming, white supremacy won't be replaced!

So here they are. Again.

And here we are. Again.

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