I am writing an open letter to whites out there to let you all know that it is ok to sleep at night, you don't need to keep one eye open, you don't need to fortify your houses with alarms and barking dogs-You are not going to be jolted out of your sleep by David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs or Valerie Jarrett and taken to the underground fortress especially constructed to house whites for the sole purpose of exacting revenge after 500+ years of slavery.
I am writing an open letter to whites out there to let you all know that it is ok to sleep at night, you don't need to sleep with one eye open, you don't need to keep your kids close, or turn your houses into fortresses. You are not going to be jolted out of your sleep by David Axlerod, Robert Gibbs, or Valerie Jarrett and taken to the underground fortress especially constructed to house whites for the sole purpose of exacting revenge after 500+ year of slavery and several hundred more years of discrimination both overt and systemic.
The President and his wife are not part of a secret plan hatched years ago by some secret black society whose sole purpose is to see John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Michelle Bachman work in fields for 18 hours a day, and get treated like property.
I know this is hard to believe after everything that whites have done to black americans over the years but, NOONE is trying to get you!
Mrs. Sherod is also not part of the plan hatched by the USDA in order to make sure whites lose their farms at a higher rate than black americans. She is not part of this perceived grand scheme. She is not watching you from afar just waiting for the chance to steal ALL your stuff.
Michelle Obama is not going to get all your little white boys and girls to the white house under the guise of helping to grow her lettuce only to capture them all and make them work in her garden all day while she laughs and says "take that whitey."
I don't know how to tell this to you as I am not sure what you will do if this actually sinks in as it seems to be the main and most prominent reason for your existence at this point but YOU ARE SAFE. There is going to be no ambush, there is no grand plan, there isn't a list with your name on it.
If you believe me will you just shut-up and let the President do his job. Will you stop milling around your office trying to come up with ways to stop the President. Will you represent your constituents in a way that actually makes sense and not in a way that is fueled by paranoid, delusions of the "end of time as we know it." Will you govern without thinking we are in the midst of some Orwellian novel with you as the protaganist.
Yes, we are a country that enslaved black americans for hundreds of years, yes millions of black americans were murdered, thousands more beaten, lynched, raped and robbed. We denied blacks quality education, and a quality of life that whites were able to live. We jail black men at higher rates than white men for the SAME crimes, we stereotype black women to the point that is cartoonish and creates a social structure where black woman have to be that much smarter, stronger and almost impossibly perfect in order to succeed.
Systemic racism affects every facet of society. Yet, still the fact remains that the majority of black Americans believe in reconciliation and forgiveness, the majority of black americans are like the real Mrs. Sherod (not the edited version) where she sees individuals and people as human and tragic and real. She is the real face of black america. A woman whose Dad was murdered by a white man-shot in the back. She has faced untold racism and oppression and STILL believes in reconciliation. She is the epitome of forgiveness in this country.
So, I ask you whites, I beg you please just get on with your lives, go to work, let your kids play, let our President our Black President do his goddamn job.
***In full disclosure I obviously don't mean all whites...
***Update added a satire tag-it's early I forgot...some can chill out now and enjoy their coffee