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A Series of Unforeseen Events [1]
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Date: 2025-04-02
The right-wing agenda to turn this country into an authoritarian/police state isn’t new, it’s been in the works for decades, over 50 years as a matter of fact. Slowly but surely, they were taking over states, county by county, district by district, city by city and state by state, so why the sudden rush and ensuing chaos?
Two things happened in addition to COVID around 2019/2020; a study came out and a man died. The man’s name was Georges Floyd, and he was by all accounts just a man with his own struggles in life, but his death sparked a awakening of conscience in our country and around the world (which unfortunately did not last). The study that came out was about the dwindling number of white people and the prediction that by 2050 they would no longer be the majority in the US that honor would fall to brown folks.
The uprising of folks who watched a white man kneeling on a Black man’s neck for over 9 minutes until his death was unexpected. White mothers, grandmothers, nurses, white teens, preteens, university students, the streets were filled with white folks standing in front of Black folks singing “hands up please don’t shoot us” this show of unity shook white supremacists to their core. They realized that while they had been planning for over 50 years, the country had somehow managed to move forward and evolve. So, they stepped up their game and started to sever the newly forged bonds.
And suddenly every minority group had a label attached to its identity, Gays were groomers, Trans Folks were predators (of women), Drag Queens were perverting children, Migrants were rapists and drug dealers, Black folks were DEI hires unqualified underserving, Feminists were responsible for the dwindling numbers of white children, no one was spared not even the unhoused. And all of the “targets” of minorities “perversions” were portrayed as white folks. And just like that, white folks started staying home and melted away from the protests.
All of “this” didn’t start 1 year before the elections, 47 has been doing his rallies non-stop since he left office as 45. His supporters, from the Charlie kirks to the joe Rogan have been peddling this replacement theory ever since they saw that survey and realized their power structure was about to crumble. Covid was just for them a fortunate event that kept us from connecting too many dots.
The reason their wrath (post-election) is mostly falling (for now) on Latinos is because that’s the group that was growing by leaps and bounds to replace them. The percentage of Black American has and is foreseen to remain steady between 12-13%. The targeting of the LGBTQIA+ community is but a sick diversion in hopes that we don’t discern their real concerns.
And all of it is because a majority of you fail to grasp the concept of the rights of one are the rights of all. You live in the land of the free, but the concept of freedom escapes you.
#ThePoet
Muriel Vieux – April 2nd, 2025, ©All rights reserved
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