First off, let me be 100%
clear. I know, it’s not up for question
or debate, that Trump’s “Muslim ban” is racist, Islamaphobic, xenophobic,
fascist, and illegal. PERIOD! It is nothing more than his thinly-veiled
attempt to make America lily-white again, just like his custom-made, 100% cotton,
picked by American slaves, 400 thread count, percale, lightly starched Klan
robes. Non-Christian Trump is, first and
foremost, aligned with the sole goal of removing, oppressing, and even exterminating
if he can, ALL people of color within these borders to restore it to the great
racist, evil bastion it once was.
I want America to be more
tolerant, I want America to be more diplomatic, I would love for my America to
be the true melting pot that it was supposedly created to be. I will forever embrace diversity. I will fight, resist, and protest any and
every effort by this deranged lunatic in chief to make AmeriKKKa more racist
again. When the time comes, I will
register as Muslim as an act of conscientious dissent against tyranny and the
efforts to go back in time to segregation, Jim Crow, slavery, and the mass
genocide of “others” that this country is so damn proud of.
All that being said, I do find it
a bit odd that moderate/progressive/liberal white Americans are more horrified
by the thought of Muslims being banned from the country than they are the thought
of white cops murdering Black people in cold blood. For
two years, we’ve seen the videotaped evidence of innocent Black men, women, and
CHILDREN slaughtered in the streets like animals time and time again and the
most moderate/liberal whites could muster up was some luke-warm enthusiasm. While a few picked up signs and donned BLM
t-shirts, more often than not, they deflected, defended, and denied that there could
be the slightest possibility that systemic racism was at the core of the
hundreds of police killings of African American citizens who were born in this
country.
But I’ll be damned if white
people haven’t found their raison d’etre now.
They are shutting down airports and highways, they are boycotting
companies, they are united in their #NoBan #NoWall fight. I just have to ask where was all this empathy
and compassion and activism for Black Lives?
I want all those white people who are ready to register as Muslim in
defiance of Grand Wizard Trump to register as Black for a day. I want
all those white people to see our lives as worthy to fight for too.
I’m not at all angry at white
people for their enthusiastic defense of the principles that made this country
the land of the free. Their indignation
is righteous for sure. I just wish it
extended to the Black citizens who lived here as well. I just wish they didn’t feel so inclined to
dismiss the plight of their Black American brothers and sisters so easily.