boo hooo

I just over­heard this sun­burned white girl with feath­ers tied into her hair wear­ing a shirt that says ‘Bernie Fuck­ing Sanders 2016’ an­gri­ly ask if there’s any gluten free beer at this brewfest and I pret­ty much just wish I could lift off into space and leave earth for­ev­er right now.

On that thought,

vot­ing for Oba­ma once or twice and then vot­ing for Trump isn’t proof that any­one who did so wasn’t a racist.

Those peo­ple saw an op­por­tu­ni­ty to ask what the black man could fi­nal­ly do for them for a change, af­ter a life­time of be­liev­ing that the black man was giv­en all the good stuff af­ter it was tak­en away from the white man.

When he failed to de­liv­er the way they felt he should, they vot­ed Trump. Be­cause de­spite all their ex­cus­es, deep down in­side, they knew damn good and well a woman sure as fuck was­n’t go­ing to put up with or pla­cate their stu­pid ass­es.

Straight up racism wasn’t on the tick­et in 2008 or 2012.

And the far­ther we get from last year’s elec­tion, es­pe­cial­ly in light of re­cent events, the sug­ges­tion that peo­ple who vot­ed for Trump weren’t racist sim­ply be­cause they pre­vi­ous­ly vot­ed for Oba­ma only con­tin­ues to be­come more disin­gen­u­ous and em­bar­rass­ing.

Also,
every non-white group in ex­is­tence has been called every hor­ri­ble thing you can imag­ine for cen­turies, not to men­tion they’ve been whipped, beat­en, hung from trees, at­tacked by dogs, raped, slaugh­tered, sprayed with hoses, in­ten­tion­al­ly in­fect­ed with dis­eases, shot in­dis­crim­i­nate­ly by cops …

But yes, let’s re­al­ly pour all our sym­pa­thy out for the blue col­lar white man whose feew­ings got hurt be­cause some­one called him a dumb red­neck on­line or made fun of him in a po­lit­i­cal car­toon and he was just so up­set he went and vot­ed Trump.

Boo fuck­ing hoo.
 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2017 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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