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Saturday, February 22, 2020

WRITER'S BLOCK & THE RULE OF LAW

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

That is the viewpoint of the current usurper of the Oval Office. With that attitude he shows how ILLEGITIMATE a president he really is--and I for one say he knows this dam' good and well!
Among my fellow palefaced 'Americans', almost none know what it is like to have the authorities use the law as a cudgel against any group to which they might belong. A few more, I am afraid with decreasing force, remember tales from their elders about that condition. I'm sort of like that. While no family elder ever told me of such a thing happening to them, I read of how, on one side of the family, the law in Eastern Europe was never a friend of the Jews. And on the other side of my family, it's easy to see that the law would have been no friend of theirs either--at least not in the antebellum South. Suffice it to say my paternal ancestors were the Southern whites who the ex-planters termed 'scalawags' during Reconstruction.
Well, fellow palefaces, unless we turn out in unprecedented numbers and give the formerly 'Republican' party a bigger, and much more down-ballot, shellacking as they'll have never experienced in all their history (only 1936 and 1964 should even come close) a good many more of us will be experiencing that particular condition of existence in the years to come!
Our fellow citizens who actually do know what such a condition feels like (and how to go on living nonetheless) are almost entirely those of color: African-American, Latinx and/or Native. We may be under the necessity of learning this from them. There's a lot more we should have learned, and should still, learn from them regardless!
I gave this post its particular title because, for a few weeks at least,  I've had a writer's block. I've felt as though I have a lot churning inside me but my attempts to articulate it have fallen flat, at least until now. And that block, plus that it's been cloudy and rainy almost nonstop here on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, has made me a bit more melancholy than usual. But after taking a good look at said block, I think I know the crucial element: Trump's nonstop assaults on the rule of law and anything remotely resembling 'justice for all'. I believe I actually may feel such assaults as internal blows on my mind and soul.
Understand this, fellow palefaces: those who have told us that there's only so much 'justice' and 'freedom' to go around have been deliberately lying to us in order to keep us under the illusion that we're somehow better than those with duskier complexions! We need to invest equally in ALL our human capital of ALL colors in order to solidify and strengthen that investment for all of us! More for African-Americans, Latinas and Natives does NOT mean less for us; in the end it means more for ALL of us! It's really true that, when we all do better, we ALL do better!!
But even with breaking this block, I could use some encouragement from my friends also engaged in this struggle. If the worst happens this November, I will at least think of decamping to some country where I need never soil my tongue with what will have been my cherished native and (on dad's side) ancestral speech again! For such an outcome in November will show it to be today the speech of Judases who have deliberately turned their backs on the best in our heritage! And then I'll think of those who can't leave and be ashamed of myself that I ever thought of deserting my friends and comrades in arms!
I can't say often enough that this November, we must turn out in record numbers and sweep the former 'Republicans' out of office at ALL levels from federal to local; yea, even neighborhood level!
Also, keep your pitchforks sharp, have (non-Tiki) torches and a noose or two ready. Buy a firearm, learn how to use it and groups of us should buy plenty of ammo as well. Even if we bring forth a 'blue tsunami', I don't put it past the current usurper to cry 'foul' and refuse to leave the house he now usurps!