The White To Vote

Vote First, Ask Questions Later

August 28, 2021

I still vividly recall, as an impatient teen giddily awaiting the aging process to allow me to get my hands on a steering wheel and my foot on an accelerator, learning that driving was not a right but a privilege. This was defined as such in no uncertain terms. This was described in stark contrast to voting, which was in fact a right (once a certain chronological milestone had been reached, which changed during my later teen years), and not a privilege. No one, to my knowledge has ever been denying the privilege to drive based solely on the color of their skin. I may be mistaken in this, thanks to my life-long white privilege (again, not a right, though some might argue this point), but let’s assume this for the sake of argument.

Recent polling revealed that by a 67% to 32% margin Republicans believe that voting is a privilege that can be limited. Huh? The same poll showed that Democrats believe by a 78% to 21% margin that voting is a fundamental right. Here’s another breakdown for you: How do Americans feel about voting being a fundamental right according to their racial profile?

Black                      77%
Asian                      66%
Hispanic                  63%
White                     51%
Native Americans     ??% - apparently, they were not important enough to be asked

Based on the above, it should not surprise anyone that the ultra-white, largely racist, and demonstrably anti-American Ratpublican Party* has been pulling out all the stops to stop the steal. However, the steal they are desperate to stop is not the one their cult leader, a white (albeit comically spray-painted orange) nationalist has been whining about of late. Turmp, who was a sore winner when the obsolete Electoral College (and his Russian benefactors) handed him an ill-gotten victory in 2016, was unsurprisingly an even sorer loser after being clobbered in both the popular and unpopular (Electoral College) votes in 2020.

The real steal, as far as Ratpublicans are concerned, is the electorate stealing power from the corporate ownership of the government. This issue has taken on increasing significance and desperation as the white power structure in America is rapidly waning in favor of a multi-cultural, multi-racial society and leadership. Angry white people are apoplectic that non-white people would dare to insinuate themselves into a country that was stolen from the non-white original inhabitants and literally built on the backs of non-white slaves for more than a century and a half prior to its Declaration of Independence and for most of its first century since the birth of the nation. And since the “ending” of slavery, our very survival has been held aloft on the work-broken backs of underpaid non-white migrant laborers, perpetually disrespected, but no less critical to the nation’s economic survival.

Ratpublicans are not only trying to whitewash history by banning the teaching of anything that might make white children and their parents uncomfortable (guilty conscience much?), like slavery, the real reasons for the Civil War and “States’ Rights,” or Jim Crow, or the new boogie man – Critical Race Theory, they are trying to bleach the ballot box into toxic, likely fatal, whiteness.

Pennsylvania senate candidate Malcolm Kenyatta

White people need to STFU, grow up, wise up, and deal with the fucking fact that this not only is not their country, but not their world.

I have mentioned this idea previously, but it bears repeating – maybe white people, especially white men, should be disenfranchised (or maybe just subject to a literacy test, or a quiz on the Constitution, or having to correctly count the stars in the sky after waiting in line to vote for 12 hours) for a century or so to give them a taste of this very bitter, often fatal medicine.

*To be fair, and there is absolutely no reason to bring fairness into any fight with Ratpublicans, it is entirely possible that they would not try to disenfranchise voters of color if they voted Ratpublican. Not sure if that makes what they are doing better or worse…just kidding, they are utterly disgusting, and working overtime to remain irredeemable.

I. Mangrey resisting.