I deleted the image for redundancy sakes (just so you know). I appreciate the honest comments, I really do. I will agree, as well, that the Democrats are likely 'playing ball' so to speak. Not that it's right, but it is what it is. I keep forgetting that I'm an old fuck, now, and probably remember this shit devolving year after year. Kids today only get snippets of how bad shit used to be for anyone who wasn't white in this country. I feel bad for white people, too. Many of them are just good people fucked over by a bunch of insane rightists sixty or so years ago. The ramifications are still felt today. So, when I hear about the militant left or ANTIFA, it's sort of the bed they made to lie in. Is that wrong to consider?
I just had to explain to my nephew, not long ago, about Jim Crow. There seems to be some stupid idea that civil rights just magically appeared after the Civil War. I had to explain to this kid, who lives in nothing but a Trumpist echo-chamber, that - believe it or not - we used to lynch black people just for being black. He couldn't even tell me who Malcom X was. I took a Sanborn map of Columbus one time with him, and overlaid the racist redistricting from the early 20th century. Would you believe it? Those areas are STILL getting fucked over.
No love lost for idiot liberals, but the right has a larger ledger to reconcile.