Whether the previous President, the arch avatar of whiteism, wins or loses the 2024 Election, the distasteful MAGA mentality of white supremacy and privilege will unfortunately continue to linger in our mouths and minds. If there is any compassion at all in the universe the goniff will catastrophically fail thanks to all of our efforts.
In 2006, director Robert De Niro provided us with a pithy insight of the whiteist attitude that non-WASPs must endure in The Good Shepherd. Matt Damon portrays the head of CIA counterintelligence (CI), a Yale University graduate and member of the elite Skull and Bones secret society.
Joe Pesci portrays an Italian-American Mafia don who delivers a perfect sermon to the WASP spy-catcher. Their exchange is worth this one-minute indulgence: Patriotism - The Good Shepherd. Words to live for. A cause to die for. (youtube.com)
So, if non-WASPs “are just visiting” America as the CIA CI mandarin explains in the film, how long will they stay?
The MAGA Vision of America
African-American soldiers (like the Harlem Hellfighters) fought valiantly in segregated units during the First World War. They came home to regularly witness brazen Ku Klux Klan parades down Main Street, USA in the 1920s. More than 250,000 Klan members lived in Indiana alone.
Pictured on the right, the KKK seem to be welcome in our Nation’s capital.
“Undesirable aliens” were rounded up and deported during the 1919 “Palmer Raids” following fear of a communist revolution in America. In three months, 6,000 people across 36 cities were arrested; 556 were removed. Had the US Labor Dept not interceded, the number of deportees would have been much higher. Most of these unfortunates were Italian Catholics and eastern European Jews.
The architect of this brutality was USAG A. Mitchell Palmer who was raised in a Quaker family (Religious Society of Friends).
Probably the only St. Patrick’s Day parade in the US to exclude LGBTQ participants was held on Staten Island, NY on Sunday, 3 March 2024. This should be no surprise. Staten Island serves as the base of New York City's Republican Party in citywide elections.
The dead-ender filibuster MAGA vision of America is alive and well in Richmond County, NY.
Our vision of America
One thousand of our young men and women from the 7th Transportation Brigade (Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA) are deploying to the coast of the Gaza Strip to construct a pier to deliver emergency assistance to Palestinian civilians. The USCENTCOM mission is to provide 2,000,000 humanitarian aid meals per day to the beleaguered Palestinians.
Universal health care for all Americans which includes unfettered reproductive rights for all women.
Gun-free city streets, outlawing capital punishment, a national database of corrupt, fired, or abusive police officers, distinct separation of church and state, and an elimination of tax loopholes for corporations.
Accountability for the 1% of Americans that controls 99% of our wealth.
Tolerance, inclusivity, and opportunity for all Americans and refugees in a civil society.
Our 20/20 vision is better than their 20/20 vision.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr