For centuries black Americans have known all too well of the hollowness and falsity of words like “fair play,” “honesty” and “truthfulness” that routinely come out of the mouths of a large segment of hypocritical whites (usually those of a conservative ilk and stripe), words they have bandied about as if they were gospel since the founding of the Republic.
Now, with the political machinations going on in Washington, the rest of the world finally knows these terms are just empty propaganda spewing forth out of the mouths of demons. The scales have fallen away from the eyes of even those soft-hearted whites that had long accorded these charlatans the benefit of the doubt.
A good friend of mine, a former elected official affiliated with the Democratic Party, sent me an email this morning that was forwarded to him by another respected Democrat, urging everyone to flood Senator Rob Portman’s office with emails, calls and letters, requesting that he refrain from allowing himself to be bullied into getting on board with Mitch McConnell’s effort to push through tRump’s nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, especially since Republicans blocked Obama’s nomination under similar circumstances in 2016.
My response was, I’m not about to waste my time.
There was a time when Sen. Portman demonstrated at least a modicum of fairness in matters of governance, but those days are long past. The monster now occupying the Oval Office has put skirts on virtually every Republican member of both houses of Congress, turning them into a bunch of simpering sissies, and thereby revealing the true nature of the GOP as it presently exists.
With only a scant few exceptions, Republicans are now moral cowards as exemplified by their actions over the last four years and thus have verified the truths we blacks have known about them all along: In their hearts they really are un-American inasmuch as they only are interested in representing white citizens — and even then, only heterosexual white citizens that sing out of the same hymnal they falsely mouth the words of.
Instead of wasting time and effort begging these moral midgets of the right to act with courage, compassion or fairness, the thing progressives need to spend their time on is preparing to purge the Democratic Party of the element that will break weak (read: moderates) once their side has enough votes to pack the Supreme Court, do away with the Electoral College, and jettison all of the antiquated and rigged mechanisms of governance that conservatives have used in their attempt to usurp the notion of “one person, one vote” for the last few centuries.
As a nation we have over 400 years of flawed, unjust, and specious laws — as well as governmental policies — that have had a deleterious effect on the black body politic which need to be rectified and repaired. Therefore, the sooner progressives realize that the other side — the side that has consistently attempted to block every piece of legislation that would make the nation live up to the ideals it has long, but disingenuously, espoused — has never played fair and never intends to, the sooner we can finally crush these traitors to constitutional law and at long last (indeed, for the very first time in our history) truly make America great for everyone.
The stars are coming into alignment. The vast majority of members of the Republican Party are doing their level best to imitate demented lemmings by rushing — being led — off a moral cliff and into a deep abyss of degradation they won’t be able to climb out of if progressives simply refuse to throw them a rope ladder of forgiveness at some point down the road.
Fuck forgiveness, not after what these bastards have done — and still will attempt to do if given the opportunity — to my race, a race of people that has remained loyal and faithful to America, even as she has abused and denigrated us, seemingly for no other reason than the irrational fears (and often the amusement) of white racists and bigots.
Know this as honest-to-goodness truth: Only black citizens completely, truly, understand and know all of America. We’ve had to — to not only know our America, but to master the art of knowing white America as well, that is, if we wanted to survive and hoped to prosper. White Americans conversely really haven’t had to get to know the America we live in, but often like to think they do. Even then they only know what we want and allow them to know. So while we know both Americas, whites generally don’t. And we rarely take off our masks around most whites — history having taught us that we simply cannot afford to.
What even well-meaning progressive whites seemingly don’t (or can’t) understand, but we blacks know from centuries of hard-knock experiences: This is no longer simply just a political disagreement presently coming to a head in our country. Before this upheaval is over it’s going to turn into a knock-down-drag-out, sometimes-bullets-flying, pitched battle for the survival of the fittest and toughest _ those our brutal American history has best prepared to weather the tough times ahead.
Indeed, for many of us — blacks and whites alike — this coming cataclysm is truly going to be about nothing less than life or death itself.
Mark my words.
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsIn