My guy *absolutely* told our peach-complexioned counterparts to pull their pants up, turn down those rappity raps, and put the ball down so they could pick up some books.
He said if you wanna be somebody-
If you wanna go somewhere-
You better wake up and pay attention.
Then Elon Musk co-signed a tweet calling y'all the R word.
THE R-WORD.
The 47th president of the United States created a whole position for a man who called y'all the R word on an internet platform he owns.
A platform where *he* made it okay to say the R word.
PRESUMABLYFORCIRCUMSTANCESJUSTLIKETHIS!!!!
It.
was.
astonishing.
Still got the dust from his daddy's South African emerald mines underneath the whites of his fingernails, and sat up here on AL Sharpton's internet and said he'd give y'all jobs IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY....but he can't....on account of the fact that you're too stupid.
Then when y'all got mad, he was all, "Look..do you want to be successful or not?!? The choice is yours, dum dum."
And when y'all chose "not-success," HE CO-SIGNED A TWEET CALLING Y'ALL THE R-WORD.
THEN Y'ALL TRIED TO CANCEL HIM!!!!! ALL THE CANCEL CULTURE ATHIESTS WERE HAVING WHOLE 1500 PERSON INTERNET MEETINGS ON HOW TO CANCEL ELON.
ON ELON'S PLATFORM.
Me and my people just were *shocked.*
Shocked, I say.
But it didn't have shit to do with me.
So I just sat here and ate my Black American salad.
Then Ann Coulter was like, "Elon just wants slaves."
And I was all
I don't get why everybody's so mad.
Y'all said college was for elites.
60% of your lil party doesn't believe in it.
2 weeks ago y'all were all "Abolish the Dept. of Education."
Y'all love that Prager U curriculum that uses....*cartoons* to teach white supremacist fiction.
?????
This is what you wanted.
This is what the republican party has been ginning up for 60 years--a spectacularly ignorant, uninformed, uneducated, intellectually incurious base.
What's the big deal?
Personally, I love it when *my* plans come to fruition.
But even *I* didn't have them calling y'all knuckledraggers to your faces.
That highly particularized act of boldness was absolutely not on my bingo card.
Elon Musk stood dead in the middle of this country's amber waves of grain and told the white ppl of America they were too stupid to work for him.
I looked out of my window, exhaled, and said called out on that departing breath-
Jehovah Jireh.
Jehovah Shammah.
Jehovah Nissi.
Jehovah *Rapha* (you gotta pronounce that one like Richard Smallwood)
Elon & Vivek said white ppl could definitely have jobs in this country.
Just not *good* jobs.
Not the kind of jobs *they* offer.
Y'all can absolutely have jobs.
Just..*separate* jobs.
Not necessarily *lesser* jobs. Probably totally *equal* *other* jobs.
Separate but equal jobs.
THEN, Loomer got in it and started like, MEGAMAGA racisiting. Like just, hard-core, throwback racisiting.
And that's when things REALLY turned a corner.
Cause Laura Loomer tried to call India dirty.
And that's when the wheels fell off and the automobile punted itself over a cliff
Cause then Indian ppl from like *everywhere*....
I'm talking straight up
"COLOURS OF THE WORLD!
EVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL!"
Indian ppl from every corner of this planet rose up....
to tell white ppl how dirty they (white ppl) were.
Just parachuting in from Bluesky to tell white ppl they were filthy.
I'm not gon' hold you--
There were times when I thought I'd have no tears left to cry.
Sweartagawd.
Idunno, fam.
The ouroboros is supposed to be a symbol of glad tidings, fresh starts, and luck....
But I promise I just saw a snake eating itself.
All.
Day.
And most of today too.
Anyway, that's what happened.
It was terrible(so, ***so*** wonderful).
DIDN'T I TELL YOU?!?!
Two mos ago that dude was doing somersaults on stage in a smedium halter top, vying to be "on mat."
And now he's calling y'all slurs and casually floating policy that effectively forecloses the possibility of Americans working in whole industries. IN. AMERICA.
Don't get me wrong--
I got no quarrel with immigration or visas or any of their accouterments....
In fact, anyone paying attention would see that this country has been radically shrinking its visa numbers, its asylum numbers, its lottery numbers for decades.
I've just never seen two ppl so seamlessly, so deftly WRESTLE defeat from the jaws of victory.
Wait. I gotta go for real. But can I just tell you that the second most disrespectful part of that Elon tweet (the most disrespectful part was his use of the R word)...
was when he closed with "This was eye-opening."
Fam. That man is genuinely stunned that y'all thought you could work for him.
Like...he never even once CONSIDERED giving y'all jobs. It never even occurred to him y'all'd think so much of yourselves that you'd *delude* yourselves into thinking you were qualified.
He was sitting in his lair, watching wave after wave of furious tweets fill his mentions...
*stunned.*
Because he *could* *not* *believe* you actually thought he'd stoop so low as to hire you.
My God on High.
I just envisioned Elon and Vivek printing out 2 copies of a resume, seeing the name "Karen Smith" at the top, and then balling it up and throwing it into the trash.
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I have a shit ton of work to finish, but I want to say something-
briefly.
B/c a lot of smart ppl that I follow (all of them white-- ALL of them)-
feel compelled to offer thoughts like this....thoughts that suggest democrats have "forced" ppl into 45's arms.
And it absolutely side-steps a fairly critical data point that I, too, might ignore (whether willfully or ignorantly) if I were white--
It doesn't matter how bad the economy is. It doesn't matter how expensive groceries are. It doesn't matter how much gas costs (and I'm
choosing not to harp on the fact that so many of you think so many of these things are directly tied to who is in the Oval office). It doesn't matter if I've been unemployed for two months or twenty-two months.
There is no set of circumstances that this country will present-
Literally 2-3x a day, someone from some walk of my life asks.
I always give these lengthy explanations and close with "No," but that might be a lie.
(My boss has been saying it's a lie for approx 7 mos, but I'm only seeing it now).
It's a difficult question to answer b/c I'm very good at my job (for the most part). And it's hard to separate the validation I get b/c I'm good at something from *liking* the something itself.
But I think it's absolutely true that I feel lucky that I get to do this job.
And I am grateful for it.
Genuinely.
Between doing this work, and teaching, and listening to a million hyper-educated voices on this stupid app, I might have a chance of being a fairly thoughtful and decent human before I die.
So, all and all, not too bad. 2 successes, one fail (arguably the most important one as far as my pride is concerned, but I'll rally).
Listen.
Let me tell you about my morning.
1. I woke up 3 times last night b/c I was nervous about today. 2. I was supposed to take my niece to school, but when I got in, last night (I was at the office until....9?), her mom said *she* was taking her.
Which was fine. I was just gonna use the time to prep in the am.
3. But this morning her mom realized the plans had been mixed up and I *was* taking the baby to school. No problem. I was up, had read all my cases. No biggie. I just needed to be out of the house by 7:30. 4. So I prep the dogs' food and leave it for one of them to give to
So I had a client who was ridiculous and volatile...
...who had never explored the possibility that I, too, might be ridiculous and volatile.
And that was his first mistake.
As I have indicated before, a great deal of this job turns on relationships. B/c I am generally likable (and "generally" is certainly doing its fair share of work in this instance), I have pretty solid relationships with most of my opposing counsel.