Four years ago yesterday, I woke up believing this country was ready to elect its first woman president. I challenged anyone who'd listen not just to defeat her opponent, but to defeat the conditions that gave him rise.
I admit: I underestimated the depth of US misogyny.
It has never been better than this.
If you are Black in the US you are ill-afforded the luxury of racial naiveté. We know this country better than it knows itself, because we've had to.
We learned history that was never taught to us, occupied spaces, (including the Oval Office) never designed to accommodate us.
If you are white and you're reading this, it's time to admit:
You. Have. Got. To. Stop. Underestimating the depth of US racism.
Unless you factor in just how deeply committed to racism the US is.
Instead, and ONLY because he is as incompetent as he is callous, billions of people around the world are wondering if the light of democracy will be extinguished from the US.
The cadence of this country; its pitch, modulation and harmonic resonance, is and has always been, racism. If you are JUST tuning in to this discordant frequency.
Land does not slide easily.
Masses of earth and rock and soil tend to settle.
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