By Walter L. Hilliard III –
For the last 10 years or so I have come to realize that in America, and pretty much everywhere else, too, things must get worse before they get better, especially in regards to our political, socio-economic system; thus, I have always said that I was glad Donald Trump beat Hilary Clinton because liberals were not really any different than conservatives, or DemoRats than RepubliCons. And Trump’s racism and political arrogance, well, pathological narcissism, has kicked up the White Supremacist Dust, American elitism, and so on, making things so bad that people, especially mainstream White America, now realize how racist and bad our country is — that is, in addition to Barack Obama, who did nothing for Black people.
So now we have an opportunity, a wave of energy, really a Critical Mass of people wanting the police to change, mainly because of ongoing police brutality against Blacks and ultimately the on-camera lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. His death, our watching four cops, one with his knee on his neck, two others with their knees on his back and legs, and a fourth, an Asian cop, holding the crowd back — a crowd who heard Floyd’s “I can’t breath…Mamma” cries and urged the police to get off of him, but to no avail. No longer could mainstream America hide or deny the reality that they have wrongly been giving the benefit of the doubt to the police.
What has also helped keep this protest momentum going was the police pushing over the elderly White man in Buffalo, NY, the back of his head smashing into the pavement, causing blood to stream out of the back of his head, as he lay sprawled out on his back. So this validates what I’ve always believed — if mainstream White America allows the police to abuse Blacks, they will eventually abuse White folks. And we all know they’re not going to allow that to happen.
