𧡠Saw a Black man on the bus ranting on Latin migrants and immigrants talking about βTrump bout to win & deport them all!β giving fist bumps to 2 other Black men who cheered his racist rant. Meanwhile, the rest of the very diverse bus in downtown Chicago was silent. I spoke up.
βNobody wants to hear that. Take that ignorance off this bus, these people are not your enemy,β seeing him swig a small container of clear booze.
βThat bottle is your problem. Not them.β
βFUCK YOU!β he yelled stepping off the bus and looking back in at me.
I was unmoved.
βYou are YOUR problem, not them.β
βHouse n-igga!β He exclaimed.
βOkay bruh,β I sarcastically uttered.
A woman went to leave the bus and said βthank you.β
I told the bus driver βIβm sorry I just couldnβt let this man spew hate like that and not say anything,β I explained.
βPeople like to blame their problems on others when they should be responsible for their own lives.
He probably hasnβt voted in 20 years, maybe ever.β
βNo Black person should be convinced to advocate for hate against any other group. They very well might be next,β I concluded and left the bus.
The Exavier Pope you see online is the Exavier Pope in real life. Iβve been this way since I was kid. I have always opened my mouth to speak out against hateful and harmful conduct
Iβd add as an epilogue to this story I was coming from therapy and was in the process of unpacking my session when this happened. I want to shift gears. Iβve spent the last 3 weeks or so on one topic. I donβt know what that is, so Iβll be journaling for ideas. PS: Go to therapy
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The damage the Donald Trump presidency did to the country is incalculable. Set back progress of the country 70 years through the courts and springing forth a white supremacist movement that is not on the fringe but in the very day lives of many Americans
The logic βthis I who they were all alongβ is not dispositive if the law and social mores of the country bent towards progress and dismantling systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and bigotry.
One look at the major SCOTUS cases, a violent insurrection, its clear
The three judges Trump put on the court arenβt going anywhere soon. Corrupt goons Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are 75 and 73 respectively will be gone at some point but when we donβt know when
Viktor Bout nicknamed βThe Merchant of Deathβ definitely should still be in prison. Heβs a terrorist.
However, it is a win for the Biden administration to have worked diligently to bring Brittney Griner home after it appeared the war in Ukraine would complicate her release
Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner trade was a lose/lose. Bout conspired to kill Americans, acquire anti-aircraft missiles, wire fraud, money laundering, illegal purchase of aircraft. An international arms dealer vs a vape pen seems outrageous on its face, but Griner had to be freed
Free Viktor Bout and heβs free to still be a horrible human being and has a bigger vendetta to kill Americans and potentially institutionally protected by a rogue state. If Russia kept Britney Griner Biden administration looks bad not bringing her home. Tough spot for US
It still haunts me society went into isolation, a million died and people became worse humans, angrier, actively more hateful, and more violent instead of reflection and becoming more empathetic and loving
Itβs getting WORSE. Iβm an optimist by nature, but it is unrealistic not to examine society and not assess its pressure points
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Few places Iβve ever been I FELT the racism than when I drove through the state of Wyoming on a cross country trip west during law school and stopped for gas. The place looked and felt like I stepped through a time portal with a diner attached to a station with an old school pump
I was so glad it was daylight when I stopped. Those dinersβ eyes trained on us in a way that pierced me. Yeah, decided not to eat a damn thing. Zoomed TF out of there. Anyway, I think of Liz Cheney representing those people. Itβs many parts of the country like this
Itβs not just states with a bunch of land and backwards people. Itβs suburbs, pockets of areas in cities just like Wyoming where white homogeneity is expected, desired, fostered as a shield to protect a certain type of βcultureβ