Welcome to the 1950s everybody! George Takei tried to warn us, but did we listen? Well, some of us did -- but not white America! Evidently, many white Americans yearn for the days of sock hops, hot rods, 45 rpm records, polio, McCarthyism, and segregation! Oh, and tomato aspic! Yum! And don't forget -- no interracial dating! | Pictured above: A great big beautiful tomorrow is promised to us all by the white folks in the GOP! Pictured at the left: Sarah Palin's specialty, tomato aspic! |
Should we be alarmed? The Huffington Post article (pictured at the right -- and linked HERE) certainly doesn't allay any fears. The article highlights Pence's belief that important social issues "are best resolved at the state level" (which, by the way, is white-people talk for "we're going to let all those red states pass very strict laws that counter the US constitution and restrict people's rights so that the white majority can sleep at night"). After all, we don't really live in the UNITED States of America. No, Trump and Pence will work hard to ensure that we live in the DIVIDED States of America, where people's rights depend upon the state in which they live. Hmmm...maybe we should change our nation's motto from E PLURIBUS UNUM(Out of Many, One) to UNUM DE MULTIS (Out of One, Many)? Evidently all of this is just hunky-dory with most of white America. When they voted on 11/8/16, they voted to set the clock back more than 50 years -- and this reminded us of Emmett Lee Dickinson's now-classic poem "How happy are the little Rocks" (below on the left). Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "How happy is the little Stone" (below right). |
By Emmett Lee Dickinson: How happy are the little Rocks That cast their votes and set back Clocks, And could care less of Civil Rights And kindle crosses in the Nights Whose Coat of elemental White They think is Universally right And one amendment is the One The others can be overrun, Fulfilling absolute Decree Intolerant simplicity – | By Emily Dickinson: How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears – Whose Coat of elemental Brown A passing Universe put on, And independent as the Sun Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute Decree In casual simplicity – |
Pictured below: A KKK notice for their December 3rd "Klavalkade Klan Parade" in North Carolina. Rumor has it that Mike Pence is to be the parade's Grand Marshall -- and he's going to be wearing sheets from the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House!