So here’s that endlessly-erupting pustule that is Louis Gohmert saying
If you could just possibly get off any arrogant step ladder that allows you to look down on us.
Look again, Louis. That’s not a stepladder. All the “ladders” are held by rich white men. What the rest of us are standing on is a little more organic…
You see, back in the day, you and your ignorant bigoted ilk were able to freely and casually crush and beat down folks who “aint like us.” You stomped — hard — on the faces and necks of everyone who was neither white nor “influential”, anyone “uppity” enough to not “know their place” and let your crew go on running things and enriching themselves off other’s backs.
And they fell.
But they did not fall without purpose, or without effect. Even as they tumbled into the earth they laid themselves down to build a foundation out of their very bones. On that foundation others came to stand and you beat them down too. You beat them to their knees, but they knew what foundation they were left kneeling upon. Even as their heads bowed under your assault they bent their backs and made a platform of their shoulders on which their successors might stand. And stand they did, linking their arms to lift up still more of their brothers and sisters, their husbands, wives and children.
And now those standing on the shoulders of these giants are indeed looking down on you and your kind as you continue to whine and kick out like a third grade schoolyard bully. But not from any stepladder. And no, we won’t get off these supporting and suffering shoulders. We won’t let their efforts be for nothing. We’ll leave you down there where you belong, circling the drain of history until you and everyone like you are washed away. Until my neighbors of color can walk down the street without fearing the cops. Until there’s no need for a woman to be wary of me when I pass her on the street. Until nobody gives a single shit about who another person loves or how they express it. Until I can finally, and God send the day in my lifetime, please, stop being ashamed of being white because the shitstains like you have finally been washed out of humanity.