I made the cognizant
decision to stop writing about Trump.
Over time, I realized that I was perpetuating perhaps even feeding into
the ego of a man who does not have a viable moral compass, questionable ethics
and at the very least, has no value for all of the citizens of this country.
I don’t have to tell you
who this man is because you already know.
For some of you, he is a savior…the great white hope if you pardon the
metaphor. For others, he is a bigot…someone
who seems to enjoy inflicting pain on people of color and whose policies
reflect who he is and what he believes.
We know that 33% of white
America side with, support and place extreme value on Trump. They take pride in calling him “my” president
all the while knowing that his governance does not blanket all the citizens of
this country.
This presidency has
exhausted me. The weariness comes not
just because of the multitude of scandals that has plagued the White house since
his inauguration. I’m weary of the back and
forth between the Democratic and Republican parties. I’m tired of the scandals that seem to pop up
at the end of every news cycle. But I am
mostly tired of this administration’s attempt to convince the American people
that what they are doing will ultimately benefit them; that they are doing what
they are doing because they are patriots and will lift up the middle class when
what we are seeing proves otherwise. Enough is enough. We have never had a president that has been as
enshrouded in chaos as the one that we have in the oval office currently.
I don’t know what the
future holds for us as a people. I would
like to think that we will survive this and come out better now that we know
that 33% of this country believes in the ideology of “America First.”
But it’s not the idea
that America should be first in every single aspect of governance that concerns
me. It is that the ideology is shaping out
to be America alone. We elected someone
that would go to the White house and “shake” things up. We should have known that someone with no
experience in being the president of the most powerful country in the world
shouldn’t be allowed to learn how to govern on the job.
But we’re here now and
short of voting him out of office and not allowing him to have a second term,
there is nothing that we can do about it.
We will get through
this. We will survive this. But what do we do with the hatred that has
bubbled to the surface of our nation? What
do we do with the major problem of “white supremacy?” How do we fix that problem because it’s here,
live and in living color? That has been
the question that has resonated in my mind for the last year or so. What do we do when Trump is out of office
because like it or not, eventually that day will come, whether by impeachment,
the end of his term or being voted out.
So what will we do?
~ J.L. Whitehead
