Rashard Zanders -- Amerikkka Uber Alles --
Despair not. There is some small good in all this gloom.
A great demystification is underway where there had been a great denial
Why we spell Amerikkka this way.
This is Amerikkka without it's veil. Naked, and raw. This is good Germans all over again; these are the heirs to the sentiments from centuries ago that pillaged this hemisphere and spread disease and poverty among the indigenous people in it, then captured and enslaved Africans to toil in build it. Nothing could be more unifying then seeing the Republicans operate on pure its pure id, which is what trump is to the party, its unchecked, unfiltered carnal self, what desires slavery death and misogyny and detention and imprisonment of anyone not white.
That is the America they speak of when saying "Make America Great Again," their right to commit genocide and enslave and dominate physical space here and abroad. Black scholars of academia and the streets have told the world this as science for centuries. Maybe some of it got thru, but most of it, when we are telling our story, falls on deaf ears if it isn't in a rap song, and rap hasn't really promoted positivity in a decade and a half. If any of you have any friends of color in America you were told this was the real Amerikkka, as proud of it's violence as a right...THAT is what is meant by "American exceptionalism", and by extension Eurocentric exceptionalism. There is no one in my friend circle black white red green or yellow who doesn't get schooled on the facts and histories which have unfortunately led us to this US tragedy. If Black studies profs, and philosophers were given the respect in academia they deserve, or even your local cafe' conspiracy theorists, we wouldn't be here.
Just as we are ignoring earth's scientists about global warming, because we need our cars right? And yes women, though 53 percent of women who voted went for Trump, so what incentive does he have to change his ways. Malcolm X spoke not a wasted word about where we are today. Dr. Chancellor Williams. Cornell West, bell hooks, Angela Davis....to understand this Amerikkka, which seems so new and out of left field, you have to now take seriously what you may not have before.
Also...
So sick of hearing about white rage, like we went to Europe and enslaved them, raped and pillaged, denied basic human rights, lynched and hung them, because there is such a huge history of that right? Like they have been on the bottom of every disparity there's a metric for, like images of them are clownish and buffoonish as a default in all media. Like black people have anything approaching 1/10th their wealth, like we don't and haven't had something to rage about for 400 fucking years and counting, what about our rage, black man's rage, black people's rage? When do we get to rage, I mean really rage?