Inauguration of the Angry Pumpkin just four days after the birthday of one of the greatest American heroes. The irony here isn’t just bitter: it bites. It stings.
It’s as if the ref team has finally managed to get its message across to the blue team.“You want to know how hard it’s been for us, living under the oppressive grip of a black president? This is how hard it’s been! Trump that, if you can!”.
Those fuckers got organized, I have to give them that. They stayed on point, they stuck to their guns in opposing everything Obama did, not because it was a bad idea, but because it came from a black man. RomneyCare became Obama care, and it had to die for that reason.
The bitterest pill to swallow has been the Merrick Garland nomination. Would the red team have been able to block that for a full year, had the president been white?
It’s not clear to me that American people of color have had their lives improve any under a black president. To be sure, the ACA has benefitted brown people as much or more than white people, but this peculiar sense that “racism is over, now that the president is black”, has led to some truly awful judicial decisions. Gutting the voting rights act was the single biggest factor in allowing the Angry Pumpkin to get elected.
I have to wonder if #BlackLivesMatter would have gotten the same traction under a white president. Obama has been so very image conscious, so reluctant to alienate the red team any more than henough already has, I’ve heard nothing from him in support of that movement. Maybe as an ex president he can say things that he couldn’t say before. Like a lot of other people, I sure get tired of waiting.
