Like, if we want to talk about white privilege cum supremacy it’s not, oh noez the taxicab won’t pull over or some inane bullshit, it’s this. Dumbass white people are allowed to show their whole ass and elect some dumbass orange fuck and everybody is just supposed to take that shit seriously.
I dare you to deny that in any sane world after the 2016 election results poured in everybody would’ve laughed and then said, wait, lol you’re serious… Ok, yeah, no, that’s not happening, we’re either doing a do over or just cancelling your voting rights straight up, you white people are out here running absolutely fucking wild.
Just imagine if like in some broad sweeping reparations package Black Americans were given the opportunity to pick the president for a cycle and the black delegation went with Farrakhan or some random black-Hebrew-israelite. Or, not even one of those types with dogshit politics but, say, a fun rapper. Lil Yachty is now the 45th president of these United States. Think that would stand and everybody would smile and say, good job, blacks!? Fuck no. But every black pair of eyeballs has had to watch the reverse, like, oh, so you guys went with the fake businessman who hosted the game show and has the weird hair? Interesting choice, whites! Way to think outside the box!
And there’ll be no repercussions. Even with a Joemala landslide there’s still gonna be tens of millons of opposing votes cast. Everybody is supposed to go, hey remember when the whites elected the orange cube of gelatinous fat and it killed a bunch of people in a pandemic, that was wacky, right? Those gosh darn whites and their hijinks! Ah well, on to the next election.
I mean, pardon me for not being as eloquent as a James Baldwin but this is part of the true emotional heft and psychic toll of being second-class citizenry. Dumbass white people literally shit on the levers of power and everybody just wipes them off and hands them back.