'A Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever' (Nobody Mentioned Any Witnesses)

I'm no fan of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, but it's funny to read Waiting for Democrats to Condemn Lightfoot's Racism, and Hearing Only Crickets in a country that KNOWS blacks have always been made to wait - like the wait we just finished, for centuries and most of my lifetime, merely for a black in the White House, when I (and millions of others) always knew millions can do the job. Whites are so proud they made it (when they should be embarrassed that their ever-shifting attitudes - which blacks are tagged with deciphering - are the only thing to have kept it from happening in the first place) they're actually showing cunning, by pretending now to hold the moral high ground.

Tim Scott, white's hero and the only black in the Senate (apparently amongst the enlightened ones) forgot it was the Republican's 2012 election autopsy that found they had the race problem. That blacks like Lightfoot might be sick of waiting for America to deal with that fact should be expected. We're Americans and deserve lives. Instead, we're served vacuous lectures and an attempt to make it Lightfoot's problem that she doesn't want any bullshit - as whites have historically delivered - even in these times when, they think, they "got" it. Like calling victims of racism "racist" because they don't want to talk to the people who've been racist - and won't even deal with it - on their own or under pressure.

We all know blacks have endured white's racism. In 2021, we're just up to their ever-so-slow, post-slavery realization that blacks are people, and - gulp - a black life even matters (Michael Che in 2016: "Just matters.") and this has also gone on for centuries, so it shouldn't surprise anyone some blacks find whites toxic. I'm from South Central, Los Angeles and there's a lot of them there. Not, instinctively, knowing blacks are people make conversation difficult - and that's not black's fault. Whites have always thought their pace for change is the right one. But why must we wait?

If Lori Lightfoot doesn't want to talk to white reporters - like white bloggers usually don't want to engage with me - what's the problem? Whites can seem to just want to make others suffer. And that hasn't changed. I got over it. They will, too.

R.I.P. Paul Mooney.