Being a Southerner, I am accustomed to "the white backlash" that made its sudden re-appearance this past November 2016. Overt racism and bigotry has raised its ugly head while black people are being verbally and physically abused with increasing incidences of murder and police brutality on the American Streets in rural and urban areas of our country. This regression of the civil rights of people of color intensified when Donald Trump took the podium as a presidential candidate, spewing hatred and racist propaganda on the airways completely uninhibited. He demeaned women, blacks, Mexicans, gays, Hispanics, & Muslims on television in front of our precious children. As a presidential hopeful, his complete lack of respect and rudeness was a new phenomenon that we all witness in total disbelief and white America responded, thinking that he will restore their racial superiority while allowing corporate America to take over and control our government.
What was America thinking?
Did our fellow citizens think that this racist business man will accommodate their concerns for jobs, unjust imprisonment of people of color, environmental protection, protection of our social security program, the education of our children, and fairness in the marketplace in regards to insurance coverage for ourselves and our families?
How did America accept the fact that he refuse to this day to provide our citizens with tax information that we required of every presidential candidate for decades?
It is my belief that fear and hatred drove millions to the polls to vote for this man in hopes of re-establishing the dominance that whites held over people of color before the strides of the Civil Rights granted to minorities. The N words is being bashed about, repeating the insensitivity and grief in all spheres of American life today. I repeat my question... "What was America thinking?"
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