General John Kelly was tapped today as the new Homeland Security Chief by President-elect Donald Trump. This is the third proposed appointment by Mr. Trump of a career soldier he vociferously stated during the campaign, that he knows more than. grabien.com/.... So now along with retired General Kelly, we have Ret. Gen. James “mad dog’ Mattis as Defense Secretary, Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn whose son is his chief advisor and by the way promoted the pizzeria child sex ring story, in the incoming cabinet.
We will have generals overseeing international peace and White nationalist in charge of domestic tranquility, hold on folks we are in for a bumpy ride. I spoke with my son, who spent ten years in the military, who told me, “know one hates war more than soldiers.” I hope with fake war hawks like Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon whispering in Mr. Trump’s ear that adage holds true.
The rest of the cabinet, so far, is full of anti, social policy anarchist. Betsy DeVos,www.nytimes.com/... Jeff Sessions, who failed to pass muster in a previous congressional confirmation hearing www.theroot.com/... and Mike Pompeo who still holds onto to the false idea that somehow Hillary Clinton engineered the deaths at Benghazi. The moderate and liberal sides of America, outside the middle, are legitimately frightened of returning to a time when America was Great for the Intolerant.
When I was 22 years old I was newly married and planning a future. Within a year of my marriage my wife lost her uncle to a suspicious drowning accident in North Carolina. He was the brother of her father, an affable guy who loved to laugh and play pranks. He was renowned as an expert swimmer and spent most of his life on the water. When we heard of his death we made plans to drive to N.C that week to attend his funeral. His service was held at a small church just outside La Grange, NC, my wife’s home. I was a city boy so I was not use to the constant greetings and waving that took place in small southern towns. I was treated well by not only the Black residents but to my stereotypical surprise by the white residents as well.
I found out soda was called pop and to differentiate between light bread if I wanted a sandwich from just “pass the bread” which meant a biscuit.
On the morning of the funeral, the “church house” was packed so full I had to stand outside with maybe 200 hundred others and listen to some scratchy speakers set up for friends and family that could not get in because of the fire codes. The crowd grew silent and off in the distance a beige Pontiac GTO approached with four young white guys inside. As they approached I was calm because I had been lulled into a false sense of hospitality because of my previous encounters. I gave the customary wave. The car slowed and the driver asked who was being buried, I assumed in a small town they may have known him. I gave the driver my wife’s uncles name he nodded smiled and yelled, “I didn’t know they let niggers be buried here now” and sped off literally leaving me choking in disbelief and a dust cloud.
Men like Jeff Sessions who was openly racist with co-workers, Michael Flynn who has labeled Islam a “vicious cancer” and Steve Bannon who propped up Breitbart News as the platform for the Alt-right (racism) is not a paranoid delusion, it is a real fear of returning to the day a GTO left me standing in the dust of an ugly past.
Vote 2018 it’s not too late!