I'm sick, not proud of my "Country" today at ALL [View all]
So much...soooo much...can't even begin to unpack it all in one post.
You know, I stopped doing fireworks and enjoying them a few years ago, even as Obama was in office. It wasn't about him, just the feeling that I could not support the whitewashing of so much history...some of which directly affected me. If my great-grandfather had not survived the Trail of Tears, I wouldn't be here.
But the actions overseas, racial disparity and rampant poverty and elitism...
I couldn't get behind the whole "...and I'm Proud the be an American" song for the billionth time playing to fireworks
(fireworks that also did horrible damage to our local ecosystems)
Today - well I have not been plugged in for obvious reasons, the news of the "two minutes of hatefest" at Rushmore, COVID going crazy EVERYWHERE - as I watch my small town get swarmed by tourists, and continued travesty and injustice on the #BLM front...
So what else do I do? crack a beer at 2pm and try not to cry. Hell, there's people at the beach who are probably more shitfaced than I could be. And none of them are distancing or masked, and many of them are probably Proud Americans, wearing their red, white & blue...
I just can't. 
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