The trial in the Senate of the Disgraced Awful Former Terrible President (“DAFT-P”) is underway and the attorneys for the DAFT-P have done a fine snow job to this point. They had to do that, because neither the law nor the facts are on their side. All they had were a distraction dance and a weepy story about sailing.
Yesterday’s session was to argue whether the trial itself is constitutional, now that the F part of DAFT-P is most decidedly accurate. By now you know that the trial will proceed.
The end result appears to be a foregone conclusion. That is specifically because of Republican cowardice in the face of the extremist voters in their primaries. Said another way, these Republicans are afraid of their constituents. I very much want them to prove me wrong, but I don’t think they will. Meanwhile, there are some very talented lawyers working this case and this trial is history in the making, as well as a living civics class. I urge you to watch the proceedings.
And keep an eye on the Republican efforts in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to recall their election results and turn over their paper ballots to Republican legislators for them do a partisan recount. DAFT-P’s evil fraudulent election Big Lie is not dead.
Fun Fact: Mitch McConnell voted that a trial of DAFT-P is unconstitutional because he is no longer president so he cannot be removed from office. McConnell himself is the person who prevented the impeachment of DAFT-P from reaching the Senate until after the inauguration when DAFT-P was no longer in office. Pretty slick, Mitch.
Reminds me of McConnell refusing to give a hearing to Judge Merrick Garland for a seat on the Supreme Court, saying that no justice had ever been seated during a president’s last year in office. That proved to be one of those “alternate facts” that isn’t factual at all. Mitch the Manipulator, consistently putting the “hum” into humbug.
After George Floyd was murdered by cops the world took to the streets in protest. It seems that at last there is some recognition by Whites that perhaps it’s time for people “of color” to be treated properly, treated fairly, treated as well as Whites are treated.
I think my heart is in the right place about race, so I took to heart that call to change and had a look at whether I might have been and still am a lucky guy with white privilege. Here’s a short inventory.
I’ve never been pulled over by a cop and hassled for driving while White.
I didn’t have to give my kids “the talk”.
I’ve never had a problem getting a taxi ride in any city I’ve visited.
There hasn’t been a single incident of someone coming toward me on a sidewalk and crossing to the other side of the street to avoid me.
No one has ever expressed surprise at my eloquence or intelligence.
Neither I nor my children have been shot by police while playing in a park with a toy gun.
Nobody has ever asked to touch my hair because they’ve never before touched hair like mine.
Not even one cop has put a knee on my neck.
No cop has fired bullets into my house or arrested me on suspicion of intent to steal as I was about to enter my own house.
I’ve never been the last hired or the first fired.
I know where all of my ancestors came from and most of their names 3 generations back. None of them was enslaved.
I’ve never been followed in a retail store.
I got a mortgage easily and was able to buy a house wherever I chose.
Nobody suspected that the only reason I was hired was because of my race.
No vigilantes have followed me or tried to gun me down.
I’ve never been asked to speak for my entire race.
I’ve never been handcuffed and slammed onto the hood of a police cruiser.
I just go about my life pretty much as I please.
Long, long ago I wondered why everyone didn’t do the same and couldn’t they live as they wanted like I did? Turns out the answer, of course, was and is no.
The January 6 white supremacists didn’t worry about police shooting them the way police had assaulted Blacks in our cities last summer as they marched for Black Lives Matter. Yes, there was some violence and vandalism during some of those marches.
But there was nonstop violence and vandalism on January 6, yet there was no SWAT team and there were no riot police to confront and brutalize the nearly all White mob, as had happened in Kenosha and Portland and elsewhere last summer. No National Guard showed up firing rubber bullets like they did in Lafayette Park, even as those horrific things were done in and to the Capitol Building and a noose for the Vice President hung outside it. None of the insurrectionists was zip-tied and thrown into a police meat wagon, as BLM protesters had been.
And no White teenagers crossed state lines to kill the January 6 rioters. Not even one.
Now, why do you suppose those differences exist?
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One Response to White Privilege
Jim Altschuler February 10, 2021
You know and I know and most, if not all of the people we know know that what was the white majority and the possessor of all of the “power” has been losing its majority. With that loss has come loss of control. And many white people have responded over the successive years by try to “step on the necks” of those who were once the minority. Politicians, state/county/city police, and some individuals who seem fearful of that massive minority who is now the majority.
To quote from a young man who was savagely beaten by L.A. police, “Can’t we all just get along?”