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We Should Be Aware, Afraid, and Prepared to Protect Those We Love
The people of the United States have seriously underestimated how much RACISM is driving what is happening in our country, in favor of “the economy” argument — and perhaps we should all be learning Afrikaans instead of Russian, or both. Sadly, I predict things will not go well in the next few months for anyone with brown or black skin, and it sickens me.
Any anti-trans legislation is simply to placate the MAGOTs, but I predict there will be rapid executive orders aimed at black and brown people, and I am frightened for them, and extremely pissed off. Overturning interracial marriage, preventing banks from lending mortgages to POC — and perhaps worst, separation of races in schools. Teaching hate. Teaching division. These things are likely to happen, in fairly short order, because they want to install true Apartheid in America. As long as President Musk is in charge, this is the future I see coming. All traces of women and people of color are being removed from many government offices, military offices, and even the Whitehouse.
This is what I think happened sometime in 2008. When President Obama was elected, I think a bunch of disgustingly rich white men met in a shadowy room and swore “never again,” and I think this has been the plan all along. Given what’s happening now rapidly, if chaotically, this is the…