Week 19

 19 weeks since George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer’s. On camera. 

 (Pictured:  Cartoon of an iceberg, with the tip being racism caught on camera.   I'm happy to provide a further explanation of what this means in the comments)

 

It'd be nice if we could expedite the prosecution since it would appear to be airtight.  It'd be nice if this was some kind of guarantee.  Instead, we're stalled on meaningful change or even the simplest performative act by the prosecution:  "We will ensure justice for George Floyd"

Also, 

 

(Pictured: Screen grab of a Tweet, informing you that if you've been swept up in the national election news cycle you may have missed that D Cameron- KY Attorney General and Trump stooge admitted the only charge admitted was the one the officer was eventually charged with:  Wanton endangerment.)

If I need to remind you, Breonna Taylor was murdered by cops performing a no-knock warrant who fired into the apartment of her boyfriend, killing her while she slept.  She didn't even get the benefit of the officers being charged with involuntary manslaughter.  D Cameron gave the officers the options of their oopsie being not considerate of the neighbors when they went in guns a-blazing.  And of course they took it.  

This is the world we're in.  You're being screamed at, shouted at, having signs held up and protests held all but begging you, my fellow white people, to see.  To *try* and understand.  To do the bare minimum and uncover your eyes and face what has been happening for 100's of years.  For 400 years.  Are you able to listen and stand up?  Recognize and acknowledge the pain?  

Because last week, the person holding the highest office in the nation did not denounce racism.  And that is an incredibly dangerous and horrifying prospect for our future.  

I just got done reading a racist kid from high school drive through a comment section on  social media defending and crowing 45's praises so I'm feeling overwhelmed and disheartened.  I almost shared the picture of this kid- who thought it was fun to say 45 isn't racist and that Biden *actually* is and look at this bus segregation shit right here, fam!  So *I* thought it'd be fun to dredge up the two page yearbook spread of our entire graduating class from my high school yearbook showing the kid holding up the sign where he cleverly hid "KKK" in the corner.  It got NEWS time back in 1993.  And in case you're wondering, this fuck hasn't changed much.

Ok.  I'm not going to stop reminding you that an unarmed black man accused of passing bad checks was murdered by a cop.  Or an EMT murdered in her bed.  Or an unarmed father shot in the back while his kids were in the car, or a beloved member of school faculty murdered in his car, or a kid going to get candy, or playing with a toy gun, or wearing head phones, or or or...

I'm spending the next 4 Monday of these chinwags exhorting you to vote like your life depended on it.  Like you had the lifesaving cure to a disease.  Like it was going to save lives.  

That's what I'm going to do here for the next 4 weeks.  Do I think it's going to be a door opening with fresh air blowing through the nation of immediate change?  No.  Do I think that we have a better chance of keeping up pressure, recreating the narrative of constant oppression, and starting to make a world where our democracy and liberty for all can mean "all not just white people..."?

Yes.  Vote Biden and Harris.  If you don't like Trump and feel the need to vote Republican, you can sit this one out.  No one has to know.