re: #36 Scottish Dragon

Said it at the tail end of the last thread, but it’s important to repeat, as darkly and depressingly appropriate it is to note on today of all days:

The worst crime you can ever commit in this country seems to be being brown. Doesn’t matter if you’re a mass murderer, you can still be considered a folk hero or a ‘very fine person’. But dare not to have all your papers in order, you’re immediately considered one of the biggest dangers in the country and have to be out NOW NOW NOW, FUCK YOU, OUT NOW.

To live non-white in America is to constantly be told your very existence is illegitimate.

Racism remains keyed into America’s original sin of slavery, rooted in the very idea that ones skin color makes you inherently subservient and lesser than the ‘better’ skin colors. And we seem intent on backsliding in a very horrific way in a very short amount of time here, even in our mortal, lifetime scale rather than the longer, historical scale. We seem intent, as a country, to unlearn so many lessons in order to pay fealty to the idea that this is, now and forever, a white man’s country, and the rest just need to get the fuck out. I hate it, I hate it so fucking much, and yet it’s had to deny that a humongous segment of this country either wants it feverishly or would tolerate it long as they got to profit from it personally.