I’ve been assured the results of this election were nothing more than the economic struggles of middle America who felt the need for change so they can afford gas and groceries again. For the sake of argument, indulge me for a moment. I’m trying to see something. 

Close your eyes and imagine with me, if you will, that in 2016 Barack Obama refused to accept the results of the presidential election and then encouraged a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol, instructing them to “fight like hell”. Hundreds of law enforcement officers were injured and several died as a result of the attack. Obama’s supporters breached the doors and stormed the Capitol Building; damaging offices, smearing human feces on the walls and actively searching for the Vice President chanting “Hang Joe Biden”.  Darius Washington, dressed in some sort of African animal skin, climbed the curtains in the chambers and sat in the chair of the Speaker of the House, rifling through abandoned paperwork and other personal effects. Several other men in full tactical gear were seen with zip ties and used bear spray against officers. Tamika Johnson was shot and killed by secret service as she was warned not to climb through a broken window. Afterward, Obama called Tamika a martyr and vowed to personally pardon all those who had been tried and convicted for the crimes committed on January 6. Malik Williams, head of the Proud Black Boys, will be released from prison soon.

It’s also important to note that before Obama’s first term as President of the United States, he was recorded boasting that he could grab women by the pussy. He openly mocked a disabled person, insulted a Gold Star family and called a former POW a loser. 

Fast forward through the Obama presidency to some other highlights. He tweeted more than 26,000 times until he was ultimately banned from the platform. Obama became the first president to ever be impeached twice and was the first chief executive in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration. He increased the national debt by about 40%, had his son-in-law draft a Middle East “peace plan”, withheld money from Ukraine to extort political favor, and ordered the White House and State Department to defy congressional subpoenas. Let’s not forget about when Obama used threats and intimidation to pressure state leaders in AZ and GA to falsify election results. But most of all, Obama led his supporters to disagree on basic facts. He introduced “fake news” and the “enemy from within”. Conspiracy theories and misinformation, often spouted by Obama and quite frequently disproven were spread by his supporters. Even after courts in all 50 states rejected his claim of a rigged election, Obama supporters claimed it was fake. 

Fast forward to this woman and Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. Harris quickly began to question the racial makeup of her opponent, claiming he recently “turned white”. Harris claimed her opponents rally crowd was AI-generated. She often took the stage and ranted for hours about immigrants eating the neighborhood pets and the penis size of golfer Arnold Palmer. She often called her opponent a bitch and had the richest man in the world not only giving people a million dollars to vote for her, but also proudly calling her opponent a cunt. Her running mate called their opponent “trash”. Many speakers at her rallies reveled in calling her opponent the anti-christ, a whore and the devil. Harris has promised to be a dictator on day 1 of her presidency and also likes the idea of giving the police a “purge” opportunity to send a message to the criminal element. She also believes that women who have an abortion should suffer some form of punishment. The grand finale at a rally included Harris simulating the act of giving the microphone a blow job.

Face it, the re-election of this man has absolutely zero to do with the economy and everything to do with what white America finds acceptable. The majority of white America was willing to elect the unimaginably inappropriate and dangerous leadership of this trainwreck of a human being before it would even consider the dignified, overqualified leadership of a woman of color. If they think this poorly of the Black woman who would have continued to advance the good standing of America and all its people, what must they think of the rest of us? 

Most of the people who voted for the president elect aren’t even in a tax bracket that will benefit from the ecomonic plans of his presidency. They did it because the idea of a Black woman in charge is just a bridge too far. They use the economy as an excuse so they don’t have to face their truth. Most of his supporters couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, could not explain the Palestinian Israeli conflict on a bet, yet they sit in judgement as if it were causing them to lose sleep. Gas isn’t so expensive that anyone is staying home. The scale suggests no one is starving either. 

We are about to realize that the United States is dependent on more than just whites to build and sustain this country. Congratulations, white America. In your quest to hold on to your system of power and simultaneously wound a multiracial democracy, you may have just destroyed it all.