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I was thinking about time today. A bit abstract, but the holidays make me think about the past. I was thinking about my grandmother who was born in 1899 in Opelika Alabama whose father was a butcher and owned his own store and some rental properties. He was born in the 1870s, and his parents were born just over the state border in Georgia in the early 1850s. That event was 100 years before my birth.
Now I was born in 1951, my children in the early 80s, and my grandchildren since 2010.
With a scale of time how have humans changed our social Mores and Folkways, I can say that my grandparent's grandparents lived when people were enslaved. My grandparents and mother lived in the Jim Crow South. I lived in the transition years from Jim Crow to equal protection for former slaves, and my children lived in the times where women under title 9 were given equal opportunity, and now my grandchildren are in a world where men and women have the liberty to choose their life partners.
We act surprised that despite the incredible boorish stupidity of President Trump, still about 38% of Americans support his racist agenda which basically rejects the changes in our social mores and folkways. It was not a hidden agenda. It was make America great again, which was code for taking people back when gays were ostracized, women were suppose to be inferior to men, and people of color were not equal to white people in any regard.
If people think simply getting rid of President Trump will change the backlash with the pace of change in less than a hundred and fifty years, I think they do not understand the code which is implanted in each of our brains as children withing the structure of the folkways and mores of our childhood. Simply put, not enough time has passed, and with MSNBC spending hour after hour to the run up of the Presidential election talking about gay marriage and bathroom equality, I think there was a terrible miscalculation that although my children are completely cool with sexual choice, two generations were born with a stigma attached to the same. President Trump exploited that back lash, and it will not be an easy battle, and yes.....people do not want to talk about this, but we may go backward for a generation after this vomit has been spewed among the children who will attack a muslim child, or gay child with less societal pressure to do what is right. This ultimately will be the damage of the Trump Presidency, the stealing of precious time to take this nation backward. That time will not be recaptured, but the worse thing is that after slavery was defeated the backlash of Jim Crow started with instilling fear, and drawing upon the generational pool who was not going to change. These are terrible times in American history, and we are facing an evil which is far deeper than simply President Trump being evil.......he is simply the piped piper, because the rats are still here.
Now I was born in 1951, my children in the early 80s, and my grandchildren since 2010.
With a scale of time how have humans changed our social Mores and Folkways, I can say that my grandparent's grandparents lived when people were enslaved. My grandparents and mother lived in the Jim Crow South. I lived in the transition years from Jim Crow to equal protection for former slaves, and my children lived in the times where women under title 9 were given equal opportunity, and now my grandchildren are in a world where men and women have the liberty to choose their life partners.
We act surprised that despite the incredible boorish stupidity of President Trump, still about 38% of Americans support his racist agenda which basically rejects the changes in our social mores and folkways. It was not a hidden agenda. It was make America great again, which was code for taking people back when gays were ostracized, women were suppose to be inferior to men, and people of color were not equal to white people in any regard.
If people think simply getting rid of President Trump will change the backlash with the pace of change in less than a hundred and fifty years, I think they do not understand the code which is implanted in each of our brains as children withing the structure of the folkways and mores of our childhood. Simply put, not enough time has passed, and with MSNBC spending hour after hour to the run up of the Presidential election talking about gay marriage and bathroom equality, I think there was a terrible miscalculation that although my children are completely cool with sexual choice, two generations were born with a stigma attached to the same. President Trump exploited that back lash, and it will not be an easy battle, and yes.....people do not want to talk about this, but we may go backward for a generation after this vomit has been spewed among the children who will attack a muslim child, or gay child with less societal pressure to do what is right. This ultimately will be the damage of the Trump Presidency, the stealing of precious time to take this nation backward. That time will not be recaptured, but the worse thing is that after slavery was defeated the backlash of Jim Crow started with instilling fear, and drawing upon the generational pool who was not going to change. These are terrible times in American history, and we are facing an evil which is far deeper than simply President Trump being evil.......he is simply the piped piper, because the rats are still here.
