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11-10-16
By Cash Michaels
SO WHAT
HAPPENS NOW? – To be transparent, this is being written the day before the
election, so I have no knowledge who won, who lost and why. Thus, I can’t jump
up and down and go “Yippee,” or if the results are what I didn’t expect (or
want) go, “Oh hell!” So without any knowledge of what happened on Election Day,
or after Election Day, here goes my concern.
This
presidential election is being seen as perhaps one of the most divisive in US
history, and there is a huge question about what kind of country we will be
afterwards, given how many of us have behaved before it was over. There is no
question that this nation is split right down the middle, divided politically,
socially and racially. When we heard candidates literally urging thousands of
their supporters to express their profound hatred for the other candidate
(“Lock her up, lock her up”), or encourage followers to beat people up, or call
a particular ethnic group “rapists and murderers,” then there is no question
that our future together is going to be tense.
One side,
if it loses, is going to angry and frustrated, but they’ll lick their wounds
and gear up for the next election. The other side, if it loses, has already
signaled that they will be the sorest of losers. They’re already chanting that
“the system is rigged” if their candidate comes up short. Some of them believe
that the system is so corrupt, they may have to take up arms at some point.
And they
don’t mind aligning themselves with avowed racists, while avowed racists are
move than happy to align themselves with their movement. Why? Because thanks to
the nonsense from their candidate, this country was great only before “other
folks” got their rights.
So the
divisions are deep, very deep. Bridging that divide will take leadership, not
necessarily from the next president, but on the ground and in the
neighborhoods. Supporters from both sides will have to learn to stand the sight
of one another, and be able to have civil conversations.
But wait a
minute – one of the reasons why there are people who feel that their government
has left them and done nothing for them is because they are suffering
economically. Either they’ve lost their jobs, or their wages and benefits have
not improved in many, many years. Add to that the fact that the country is
slowly but surely losing its white majority, and that foreign countries have
become more competitive with us in almost every area we used to pride ourselves
as dominating.
And, of
course, as we all know, blaming people of color for alleged “advantages” they
supposedly receive from the government during hard economic times is a classic
excuse for other folks to manufacture anger. It come as no surprise when we
turn on Fox News and see conservative negroes (yes, some prefer to still be
called that, raging against the term “African-American” because they don’t
agree with hyphenated Americanisms.
So yes, we
have an awful lot of work to do as a nation to unify this nation in the
aftermath of one of the worst presidential campaigns ever. Let’s just hope that
things don’t get too far out of hand before we get it together.
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