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.
ListenSistah 
Sistuh, You are my twin. You have aptly summarized the essence of what occurred on election day. Many voters: male, female, Asian-Latino-black assimilators, and the rural and uneducated could not fathom a double brown woman from an HBCU leading ‘their’ nation. This was a ‘keep the blacks in their place’ election to slow down the pace of whites becoming a minority. Plain and simple. I have been sharing this opinion with my network circle, especially my white 1% neighbors and friends. President Obama was raised by a white mother and white grandparents and was a Harvard law graduate, so enlightened whites felt his excellence was due to the white influence in his life. Consequently, they viewed him as an acceptable candidate who was more white than black despite the black man swagger in his gait.
Now, this racist, egomaniac, convicted felon with no moral compass is going to run the country like a king and fill his administration & cabinet with idiot lackeys. The poor, rural, trailer park dwellers who elected him will be swiftly escorted from the lobby of any building bearing his name, yet they put their guy back on the throne. The economic policies he will put in place will benefit the privileged not the poor who elected him. Note to self, I should send them a thank you note.
Bless you for using your platform to make it plain. I plan to pray, remain engaged enough to stay informed as I sit back and watch this clown show play out. God help us.
Thank you for summarizing all the atrocious reasons why this man has deeply wounded the country- and his lasting legacy with probably 2-more Supreme Court justices. I’d forgotten all these details- most too much for my brain to hold, lest I live in a state of anger. We’ve had Republican presidents of course – not of my preference with policies I’m not always in favor of but somehow, it’s been by comparison, a shoulder shrug and an acceptance that we can make it work. It’s the rhetoric. The hatred. The crassness. The disdain. The pot stirring. The self serving ego feeding motives. That’s what’s different about this “Republican”. But perhaps what’s got my ire most this 2nd go around, is the realization that his election on round 1 wasn’t an anomaly of people frustrated and willing to overlook basic values that they supposedly live by – it’s now evident this ape is their spirit animal. This animal speaks to their deep seated anger and resentment that’s been stuffed down stewing. The kind of dark discontent that a true leader would’ve worked hard to reach – and to diffuse and to quell with a message of hope and empathy and of course, policies and solutions. Instead this darkness fed him. His insurrectionist prompts are racially based and his 3rd grade mocking lands. The people of this country see themselves in the mirror he holds up. That is shocking. We have 4 years to respond. We need talent. We need a strong candidate and we need to regroup and realign ourselves as a party, which I fear, may be fatally divided and difficult to coalesce.