If you honestly think Obama “mistakenly believed” that the racist GOP was going to work in good faith with him or that White America would’ve allowed such a thing, you have absolutely no fucking clue what it’s like to be Black in America, let alone the first Black POTUS.
White America went APESHIT in ‘09 when PBO said the cop who falsely arrested Skip Gates acted “stupidly”. He had to convene a damn beer summit to quiet the Whitelash, but y’all want us to believe an angrier Obama would’ve achieved all your unicorns. 🙄 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lou…
My question is where were all these militant as fuck White liberals when the Birthers in their family/social networks were holding the government hostage until they got a copy of the duly elected Black POTUS’ long form birth certificate? I don’t recall their solidarity, do you?
Or how about when the first duly elected Black POTUS received an unprecedented amount of death threats & the Secret Service had to invent new ways to keep him safe? What additional layer of protection did the alt-left provide him that would’ve shielded him/his family from danger?
Y’all are steadily telling Black folk what we should and shouldn’t be doing to overcome centuries of entrenched hatred, oppression and obstruction of forward progress, but y’all don’t have SHIT to say to the racist White folk who are steadily perpetuating the problem. GTFOH.
Bottom line is the whole entire 8 years of Obama’s presidency completely went over your head if you truly believe you didn’t get everything you wanted from it b/c Obama was too nice to the GOP or that they wouldn’t have replaced him w/a White supremacist had he just been angrier.
The thing that’s always struck me about this (not only as a Black woman but also as a psychiatrist IRL who’s literally tasked with helping people cope with stress, illness and the ups & downs of life) is the Black woman savior complex of it all. It’s subconscious but ubiquitous.
As with many things in America, I also think it’s yet another sociological phenomenon brought to us by slavery. A lot of White family systems fell apart (continue to) without the presence of a Mammy or some form of matriarchal Black help in the home. jstor.org/stable/2714687
Except for all intents/purposes, VA *was* TX not too long ago. The 2021 Gubernatorial election set back over a decade of hard-won progress by VA Democrats. It can happen in ANY historically or recently “blue” state at the drop of a dime, if enough White voters DEFECT/vote GOP. 🥴
The other thing to remember is #WeTriedToTellThem ALL of this shit was gonna happen (all over again) but HELL NO. This is yet another consequence of MAGAts who have both a death wish and outsized influence on every single public/private system in 🇺🇸 running the asylum. 🤡👹👺🦊
Adding this here b/c it’s really important that we also recognize how the toxic/violent masculinization of GOP women voters also extends to #MAGAWoman elected officials. They’ve created an army of Ashli Babbitts who aid/abet the radicalization of their menfolk & themselves. 👹🤡
By now we’ve seen too many GOP/GOP adjacent mothers/wives/girlfriends either completely “overlook” the extremism in their midst or actively enable and facilitate the obstinance/defiance and evasion of consequences that leads to White, right wing domestic terrorism. #VanillaISIS
The thing that really chaps my hide about it is I’ve heard Republicans vilify Black family values & label us criminals/social deviants my whole life, yet here they are breeding & grooming the most PROLIFIC White domestic terrorists America’s ever seen and the NARRATIVE is SILENT.