Thought For The Day

White Folks Gone Wild

August 27, 2020

While the Racist National Convention carries on – and I do mean carries on – with its delusional assault on reality and democracy, instilling fear and hatred in its rabid base, a teenage, white (and avid Chrump supporter) vigilante ran through the latest protest over the weekly murder (Oops. Sorry, despite being shot in the back seven times, Jacob Blake is not dead, just paralyzed from the waist down. My bad.) of an unarmed black man by police. This time, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  

Did I mention the vigilante was wielding an automatic rifle? He ended up killing two protestors and injuring another, as police stood by. The police stood by so well, the shooter managed to cross state lines before finally being apprehended and charged with murder.

In fact, the police were palling around with some number of these terrorists – armed, white civilians – thanking them be being there, tossing them bottles of water.

Meanwhile back at the RNC, Mike Pence was busy lying his way through another speech and telling his lily-white base that Democrats and black people are coming for them. No mention was made of this incident, neither the attempted murder of Jacob Blake, nor the murdering, white vigilantes, one of whom killed black protestors.

There are two important, if not obvious lessons from this incident: 1) if you are a white person bent on murdering black people, become a police officer. To paraphrase our Racist/inciter-in-chief, “When you’re an officer, they let you do it.” 2) if you want police to stand by and watch you do whatever the fuck you want, you need to be white, and if certain people (You know who you are.) persist in not being white, yet insist on being seen in public, such people should never leave home without brandishing an automatic weapon.

       Black Panthers exercising their God-given right to bear arms in 1967.

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