Repealing a Strong Black Mans Legacy
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/30/repealing-strong-black-mans-legacy/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+PavlovitzRepealing a Strong Black Man’s Legacy
July 30, 2017 / John Pavlovitz
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The Republican leadership in our country has spent the past six months trying to repeal the legacy of a strong, intelligent, popular black man—and they don’t seem to care how many Americans they drive to bankruptcy or despair, or how many they kill in the process. It simply doesn’t faze them. This appears to be about the political win regardless of the body count—just as long as they take down that one man.
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Barack Obama left office as a well-regarded President who brokered a nonpartisan solution to healthcare that was saving millions of people’s lives. Men like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, and Paul Ryan hate that. Their blood boils at such thoughts, and that seems to be the primary reason they are all-in on this madness. They’re not concerned with insurance company gluttony or the rampant waste in our hospitals or the fundamental flaws in our healthcare system—otherwise that is where they’d be spending their time and influence and resources. Instead they’re attempting to cancel care for millions of families with nothing as their backup plan—expecting us to trust that at some magical time in the future, their sense of compassion will overcome their contempt; a glorious day when they’ll grow hearts for people who don’t look like them.
Their conduct in these days, is in the very best case scenario, a vomit-inducing idolatry of party; a sickening sucking at the teat of wealth and power at the expense of millions of their brethren.
But at worst (and sadly more and more likely) is that this is simply legislated racism. It is an attempt by largely a group of white guys, to dismantle the legacy of a man, whose two most offensive traits as President were his competence and the color of his skin. I’d love there to be another answer, but that just feels like what’s happening here.
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Racism isn’t a charge to make haphazardly or suggest on a whim, and it’s a fairly horrible reality to contemplate on that level. I certainly wish it was something else, because this is the country I live in, call home, and love dearly. I so want to believe that our President and his Administration and these angry men possess no such prejudice—but that’s almost impossible because their actions won’t allow it.
Sometimes you see evil and you try to convince yourself it’s something else.
And sometimes evil makes such a strong, continual, air-tight case for itself—that you can only agree and weep over it all.
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However, "sucking at the teat of wealth and power at the expense of millions of their brethren" is giving the Repukes too much credit. They don't see us as their brethren. They see us as expendable inconveniences at best and as a waste of protoplasm at worst.
It(the racism) started before he was elected, gathered steam the VERY night of his inauguration and continued through his Presidency with Lyin' Ryan and McTurtle, just to name a couple, leading the charge.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/01/21/1180899/-Flashback-Inauguration-Day-January-20-2009
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Now trCHUMP and his regime is actively trying to undo What President Obama did.
The only bright spot is that no matter what they do, President Obama will go down as one of the greatest Presidents in history while trCHUMP's presidency, will more than likely, be listed as the worst and most failed of any presidency.
The attempted erasure of President Obama won't go unnoticed though.
Of that, I am sure.
Eight years of blocking and 7 months of trying to dismantle. Because. Obama. They are a bunch of sick fucks.
