Here we are, round again to Friday, and a Friday the 13th, no less. Look out for men in hockey masks, they seem to pop up out of nowhere on such days. And yet are somehow less scary than the thought that people will vote for the guy who had the worst performance in the history of debates on Tuesday.
Like…how?
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Now let’s get this Friday post going.
Well going more, at least.
I think the thing a whole lot of people have tried to prevent from happening is happening, and that is essentially a shattering of their world view. Now to be sure, they’ve had to do a ton of Scotch-taping to hold the bits together, trying to delude themselves that the cracks weren’t there.
And when that would no longer hold, they moved on to duct tape, not even the pretty kind, but that standard shiny silver one that leaves a residue so stubborn, the memory remains even when the glue does not. And still that is not sufficient.
The cracks started with Pres. Obama, when a Black man stood before America so exceptional as a human being he was incompatible with myths of superiority. Pres. Obama is the kind of person you are lucky to exist with in a pocket of time, a once-in-a-generation human who will be remembered for as long as there is humanity to remember.
The reaction to Pres. Obama was a twisted form of self-preservation. As there was no one to raise to his level in the puddle of GOP talent, they instead tried to lower him by claiming donald j. trump as his equal.
I mean think about that. Donald has never been an intellectual in any form, but as any semblance of sense drifts away, he is a human avatar for “If HE can do it, anyone can.”
With people willing to overlook the gaps and missing pieces for the sake of maintaining privilege, their ad hoc method worked.
Until Tuesday.
On Tuesday, those shards came apart, duct tape, Scotch tape, self-delusion and all. It was encapsulated in a terrible headline I cannot scrub from my mind about the “unexpected competence” of Vice President Harris.
“Unexpected” has that duct tape film all over it.
Maybe it’s human nature to want to believe you are more than you are. Smarter; more creative; more talented.
But for some people, that requires a knowledge kept in a safe, warm space that there are some people you are better than, just by “virtue” of your combination of genes, of your gender, of your melanin content, of your bank account, of your first language, of your size, whatever it may be.
That somehow that factor creates a hierarchy of other factors.
And not even 3M makes a tape that can fix that once it shatters.
We can expect anger aimed at the VP, and most of it will make no sense to most of us, unless we look at it through that kaleidoscope lens of shattered superiority.
We allowed room and patience with Pres. Obama, a chance for people to “catch up.” Look how that turned out.
Not this time.
And with that I wish you a wonderful Friday and a fantastic weekend!
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