I know there is a tendency to look for significance where there may not be any, but this whole "toss the angry Black guys" from the Tennessee legislature is so egregious, so obviously racist, so clearly punitive, that maybe we really are a tipping point of some sort in this country.
There was a time when I thought the Republican Party was all in on "freedom." Now the party has moved to all in on mandates and restrictions and using brute force to get its way.
In my head I realize that we can't brand an entire state with any labels due to the actions of certain individuals, but my heart tells me that Tennessee as a political entity has declared itself one of the overtly racist states. At some point, don't the everyday citizens of such a state need to accept the burden of their elected leaders being racists?
If I never visit Tennessee again, that will be fine with me. In fact, a boycott of the state would be fine with me, even if it hurts some minorities and progressives... at least temporarily. And I know that there might be a counter-movement of angry white people who cancel out those doing the boycotting.
But we can't continue to simply shrug and accept fellow citizens as racists (or bigots of any kind).
Trump is a sleaze and we just shrug. Trump sneakily advocates violence. We shrug. American is governed by a backward-looking minority of citizens. We shrug.
We need to get "mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore"!
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