America, Where.

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” — Voltaire

This is America. Where protesting masks and health ordinances with threats of violence is deemed patriotic while protesting systemic murder is seen as thuggery.

America, where incited by the 45th President of the United States over the past several months, the “economic anxious” (remember that coded language double speaking for “angry-Whites-post-Obama” during the 2016 election?) marched armed upon their capitals claiming their civil rights were being denied due to lock-down safety measures while +100,000 thousand people died across the country. Where mortality due to COVID-19 is at a rate of 2.4 times higher for Black Americans than other ethnicities.

Where, rather than finding solutions to aiding the poor — the struggling Americans making up the majority of our essential workforce, people who’s struggles have existed before C-19 only to be decimated by it — America instead decided to continue its heritage in slavery-supported economics by doubling down on its prioritization of businesses and economics over human lives.

America, where every time Black communities protest in order to get attention by the only means they can, calling out their systemic murder due to systemic racism, the President of the United States publicly threatens death and violence unto them. Where the President of the United States claims these threats are actually in honor of George Floyd, a man murdered by the same systemic racism the President is using to incite violence upon the Black community. Where America continues to take a defiant stance on property prioritization over Black lives.

This is America. Where White Supremacy’s right to ignorance and right to murder is greater than any other need, or any other peoples.

We should all be ashamed.

We should all recognize the grotesque system we’re all wading through.

And we should all be angry.

Justice for the marginalized.
Justice for Black Americans.
Justice for George Floyd.