Thoughts and prayers are all you will get from Republicans if you are white or of any other race; if you are Black, you won’t even get that; it’s stone-cold silence.
The incidents of mass shootings are so frequent these days that families of the last massacre haven’t even buried their dead before there is another. The nation is so numb that the latest shooting garners nothing more than a passing glance and a cursory mention.
The sad reality is that racism is so deeply entrenched into the country’s fiber that they are blinded by the destruction it is wreaking on the nation.
Republicans do not care that Black people are gunned down mercilessly as they shop for food in Buffalo, New York, but a rising tide raises all boats, so there will always be white collateral damage, sadly whites died as well.
Whether it’s Robb Elementary School, Santa Fe High School, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, or Sandy Hook Elementary School, it is not Black or Brown children being slaughtered- American children are dying.
Yet, there are fifty Republican United States Senators in Washington DC headed by Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and two Democrats, Kirsten Sinnema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who do not care about the children dying daily in what should be sacred spaces,.…… their schools.
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Never for one moment would I expect them to give a shit about a group of Black people massacred as they went about their daily lives in Buffalo, New York, but the callous disregard they show toward the lives of their won little white babies is most telling about those monsters.
Mitch McConnell did not only break the United States Senate; he broke America. Texas has two of those US senators, John Cornyn and Raphael Cruz, and the governor of the state, Gregg Abbot, who are all part of the problem. However, to the extent that either of the three may be up for reelection, the ‘brilliant’ Texas voters will cast votes to reelect all three.
I will not say those voters are stupid; I will leave the name-calling to others, sufficing to say that in most cases, those single-issue voters are not above sacrificing their children on the altar of the second amendment.
As I said in the article linked above owning the guns and making the second amendment to the constitution an absolute right are about stockpiling weapons for a war of survival, they concoct in their heads.
What’s happening in America is like standing paralyzed on the tracks with a fast-moving freight train barreling toward you. The Republican party is hell-bent on destroying the nation if they cannot control power. They are unable to win elections so they cheat. Even when they cheat they do not have the votes to win national elections so they foment a coup d’état. At the state level, they pass all kinds of laws that hinder the ability of segments of the population to vote.
If the majority of the country is opposed to your ideas I believe it is time you take stock of what you are selling. The majority of the American people are stuck in a nightmare scenario in which they vote for Democrats but the racist electoral college gives their win to Republicans.
Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, says that disparity is growing. “The way this is starting to work is that elected representatives who collectively have gathered 10 million, maybe 12 million, maybe by the year 2030 30 million fewer votes are going to stack the judiciary and entrench minority rule,” Schatz, a Democrat, said during last year’s debate about confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “And so something has to give.”
Senator Schatz is off by almost a decade minority rule has already overtaken the American democracy.
The vast majority of the population living in the most populated states like California, New York, and Chicago have had their votes nullified by the two US Senators per state across the board.
So South Dakota with a population of eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand, three hundred and thirty-six citizens (879,336) gets the same two senators as California with its forty million citizens (40,000,00).
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore won the popular vote, and George Bush was made president of the United States. In 2016 Hillary Rodham-Clinton won the popular vote and we all know how that turned out, donald trump was made president of the United States. The stench of both those presidencies will continue to linger for a very long time to come.
Technically, the Senate filibuster that Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinnema refused to end has brought America to a standstill. The country is now a minority-ruled nation.
An NPR report cited data that shows that right now, the Senate is split evenly in half, but the 50 Democratic senators represent 41.5 million more people than the 50 Republican senators. By 2040, if population trends continue, 70% of Americans will be represented by just 30 senators, and 30% of Americans by 70 senators. This inequity affects every sector of American life, including the Supreme Court which is now set to overturn Roe V Wade which has been the law of the land for 49 years. that court eviscerated 51 years of precedent when it destroyed the 1965 Voting Rights act to favor Republicans in elections.
Since then Republicans have passed a raft of anti-voting laws across states they control that surgically target Black voter’s ability to vote.
In 2021 writing for the Atlantic Adam Jentleson said the next two years may be America’s last chance to protect the basic democratic principle of majority rule.
The stagnation including the massacres of innocent children is a clear manifestation of minority rule. When the votes of the majority are cast aside for a white agenda this is the result. That window may be open only until the last votes are cast in 2022.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, a freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.