Seems Like We’ve Been Down This Road Before – Déjà Vu, Perhaps?

Book burning, Berlin, Germany, May 10, 1933

On April 8, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Union (DSt) proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit", which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ("Säuberung") by fire. According to historian Karl Dietrich Bracher:

[T]he exclusion of "Left", democratic, and Jewish literature took precedence over everything else. The black-lists ... ranged from Bebel, Bernstein, Preuss, and Rathenau through Einstein, Freud, Brecht, Brod, Döblin, Kaiser, the Mann brothers, Zweig, Plievier, Ossietzky, Remarque, Schnitzler, and Tucholsky, to Barlach, Bergengruen, Broch, Hoffmannsthal, Kästner, Kasack, Kesten, Kraus, Lasker-Schüler, Unruh, Werfel, Zuckmayer, and Hesse. The catalogue went back far enough to include literature from Heine and Marx to Kafka.^[3]

That was pre-World War 2 in what would later become Nazi Germany under the control of Adolf Hitler.  You may have heard of him. He was responsible for allowing and encouraging the burning of books by the previously mentioned authors.

Now, fast forward to 2021, and we’re right back where things started almost 90 years ago:  Burning books pertaining to LGBTQ people, Blacks/Black Lives Matter/Critical Race Theory, and many other topics. 

It seems as though White people across the United States have become very delicate, arrogant, entitled and afraid that they somehow in 2021, maybe 2022, will become a small, minority very soon.  Well, um, NO, not in the immediate future.

The bigger issue is that, aside from the book burning and banning is the notion that White children will “be shamed and embarrassed” by pointing out that ancestors of their White parents (immigrants from Europe... primarily White people in the 1600s) went to Africa 400 years ago (400 + 2, by now) to bring generations of African Natives here to America in order to build the country, our country, because they were too lazy to do it themselves.  Instead, once the African Natives were here, those who survived the journey, they were bought, sold, traded and enslaved for generations as a commodity in order to do the back-breaking work that White men and women were too lazy to do themselves.

HA! And we're supposed to feel BAD for the parents now afraid to say the words "Critical Race Theory" for fear that they will feel shamed??? Seriously?   

I’m sure there’s lots more, but let’s just stick to the basics for now, because it seems like in 2020, we’ve come to a reckoning about that original sin of 1619.

And White woman, Mom, crying those crocodile tears at a school board meeting about how, “Just because I don’t want my (White blonde-haired daughter/son) child learning about Critical Race Theory doesn’t make me racist.” 

1)     YES, IT DOES, otherwise why the show?  Why the drama?  I don’t take any pleasure in this, but as a White, adult male, you SHOULD be ashamed about your behavior if only because you ARE part of the problem, NOT the solution.  You are so delicate that you can't even say the words "Critical", "Race", or "Theory" together without losing your mind and having a tantrum. A problem doesn’t get solved or simply go away because we ignore it. YES, you ARE racist. ALL White people in the U.S. are because they/we have ALL benefited from that White Privilege, that position/station in our society.  For us, White people, it’s all about inclusion, but for some reason(s) with Blacks (and other minorities here) it’s all about exclusion, being left out or cast aside.

2)     Book Burnings?  Seriously?  YES, the United States has become pre-Nazi Germany with this behavior.  Just because you choose to burn books pertaining to and including characters that are transgendered, Black, LGBTQi, slaves/slavery/lynchings doesn’t mean they don’t exist or did not happen.  It’s called “White-washing History”, glossing over all of the bad, hurtful, painful, bigoted, racist, xenophobic things we, WHITE PEOPLE, have done to “others”, people who are of different racial and ethnic backgrounds from our own.

STOP DOING THAT!  NOW!

And no amount of crocodile tears or screaming about little Johnny/Janie at a school board meeting is going to change the fact that YOU ARE RACIST.  I’m, frankly, embarrassed as an adult White male living in the U.S. that I have to point that out to you because I know in that tunnel-vision, limited experience, small town mentality of yours (YES…. YOURS!) this is how you view the world outside of your town or county:           BAD PEOPLE COMING TO TAKE OVER.

Trust me, you’re NOT that interesting that anyone, anywhere wants to come there and “infiltrate” your pea-brain little hamlet. NO ONE.

Oh, and be careful what you wish for:       

It likely will happen to you sooner than you think.

Donald Jessica Trump: NOT A Lawyer. Duh!

Someone really needs to tell Donald Trump that you simply can’t “decertify” an election that’s already been CERTIFIED BY CONGRESS on January 6, 2021.

Multiple lawsuits between the November 2020 election and Inauguration Day 2021 have failed in the courts for “lack of viable evidence”, something that’s required in court.

The BIG Lie, Trump’s refusal to accept defeat and concede that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election has consumed him.   Okay.  Let it.

Multiple lawsuits in various jurisdictions, some Federal, some local, will play out in the coming months… hopefully NOT years.  Best to finish Trump in the courts quickly rather than drag it out. No way for the country, the world-at-large to truly heal until that happens.

“When you look at this, this and this…”   

Maybe, Donald Jessica, but we’re not looking at those things, we’re looking at YOU.

The Republican Party and Suicide

Seems like the Republicans should apply this same thinking to Donald Trump.

A Better World -- Not Perfect, Just Better

 Pre- and During Trump:

Post Trump:

Again, not perfect, just better!

More Useless Kitsch

So, here we are 7 months after the Insurrection on the Capitol in Washington, D.C.  Trump, yes, is still lying about how the election was "stolen" from him through massive voter fraud.

NO.  None of that.  

He IS facing multiple lawsuits, the Trump Organization (and its many subsidiaries) are slowing starting to bleed money, advertisers and lending institutions are running away from anyone named Trump and so, what's Donald Jessica's go-to-move?

Merchandising, of course.  The latest entry:

Gaudy?  Yes.  Tacky?  Absolutely.  Of any real value?  No. Not in the least.

Unless you consider being a faithful follower of the fat, orange, blob of a human something of value.  Oh, and notice how he continues to describe himself -- President Donald J. Trump. 

Again... NO.  That would mean he's still in office, which he's just not.

The official read should be: "Former President Donald J. Trump."  Former meaning he lost the 2020 election, making him a "LOSER". 

So, what's the point of selling this useless crap?  Money, which our little Donnie Jessica desperately needs.  She DEMANDS attention. Daily. Hourly.

Go figure. LOL

Stop Saying This And Fix YOUR Problem(s)

YES, Georgia, this IS WHO. YOU. ARE.

You’ve decided, as poor losers, in the 2020 elections going to Joseph R. Biden and not Donald J. Trump, that NOW after the elections, insurrection on the Capitol and Inauguration, NOW, you’re going to prohibit, inhibit and exclude Black voters from ease-of-access to ballots in one form or another.

“But, that’s not who we are in Georgia.”  

I’m calling bullshit, Georgia.  It’s ABSOLUTELY who you are.  Otherwise, why is that your go-to-move after an election that went to a Democratic President over the incumbent Republican President?  An election in which YOUR Secretary of State said publicly there was NO VOTER FRAUD after 3 separate recounts.

Think about that.  Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon, a Black elected state official, was handcuffed and taken into custody while trying to gain access to Republican Governor Brian Kemp's office during the Governor’s signing ceremony.  Rep. Cannon wasn’t even allowed to enter the room where that bill was being signed. 

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlIX1-M5BE

But, Georgia, you’re not alone.  Most of the other 50 states are following your lead.

I see in your future, with the passage of these bills, the same fate as the “transgender bathroom ban”, as it became known in primarily southern states.  You remember that ban, right, and how it cost those states involved billions of dollars in potential revenue?  As a result of that ban, companies were fleeing on droves to get away from that horrendous, despicable behavior from local governments.  Some of those same states, along with these new, restrictive voters’ rights laws, are also renewing transgender-restrictions.  

In fact, it's not only who Georgia is in 2021, it's who the Republican party is as a group:  Exclusive, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, White supremacists... you get the idea.  Basically, NOT nice people and ones you really want to avoid.

I hope that companies and corporations make the same withdrawal moves they did in 2017 do the same thing now in 2021.  Don’t talk. Don’t bitch and moan. Take action and make laws that are inclusive, NOT exclusive.  Basically, think before you speak, because we all know, actions speak louder than words.

THIS is who you are, just like 23 years ago in Laramie, Wyoming, THAT’S who they were after the senseless killing of college student Matthew Shepard at the young age of 21 years old.  Maybe you remember him since he was a white boy.  A gay white boy.

It has become obvious over the past few years that white people have no shame in regards to their racism and care little about the 4 centuries of racist behaviors and racism against Blacks.   They just don’t care.  Which, sadly, means they aren’t going to buy into any attempts at repairing that damage.

Bottom line, again, Georgia, YES.

THIS. IS. WHO. YOU. ARE.