Dem crazy white boys …

   These “poorly-educated,” working-class white boys ain’t bullshitting. They want their country – read that: “privilege” – back: The unmerited advantage they recklessly wielded (and often employed) like a cudgel over the heads every other ethnic group in America since its official inception in 1492 by white Anglo-Saxon protestants (WASPs); repressed folks fleeing oppression and tyranny by the English Crown and Church of England for freedom in the remote wilderness known as America. 

   Trump got these hillbillies so riled up they are amassing at the polls like the Syrian Army preparing to breach the gates of Aleppo. These hicks have really brought into Trump’s game: an empty slogan, “We gonna Make America Great Again” to inform their vote.

   What kind of bullshit is that? Man, I wish I could pimp that hard. Shit, the only state we’d be in is a state of bliss if my game was that tight. Funny thing, there is not a brother or sister out there who believes for a second we could get away with the shit Trump is spewing all while acting like a schoolyard bully in living color: indiscriminately maligning virtually every group in America except white, working-class men who revere Trump - likening him to the second coming of the Messiah. 

  Why any self-respecting blacks are following this inarticulate bigot is inscrutable. He has repeatedly, derisively (and inaccurately) characterized not merely a segment but all “African-Americans” as lacking ‘No Education, No Anything’.

 

   In reality, Trump is little more than an orange-colored caricature of every bad used car salesman who have ever subjected us to a crude, high-pressured sales pitch; a sloganeering pitchman in the P.T. Barnum tradition. Barnum like Trump was a pitchman who shamelessly exploited everyone and everything in his zeal to promote what was to become Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. 

   Barnum’s genius was that he could get away scot-free with sloganeering to promote the circus’ brand. Trump - a shameless huckster in his own right who as a make-believe, TV boss made unilateral, unreasonable demands on his show's contestants or else you’re “fired" - apparently stole the playbook. 

   In a sense this confidence man is a brilliant brand manager. But Clinton was right about his followers and their pet Negroes. This creepy “group-think” by a group of white, male high school graduates like Sean Hannity and Rush Lambaugh speaks right to unanswered questions. Questions about how we got here as a country with American blacks as the only distinct ethnic group who has been here since the country’s founding but have never recovered, been given reparations, or substantive assistance that was ours morally to grasp without being ladened by guilt.

   Guilt born of the same white folks who benefited indirectly from our forebears’ uncompensated enslavement. Like O’Reilly, Hannity, Lambaugh and apparently Kathy Miller, the chair of Trump's campaign in Mahoning County, Ohio, they all now portentously mischaracterize any concession to blacks as “free stuff;” and, consider defunct Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and its successor, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), the last remaining cash-paying “workfare” programs, a failed social experiment that must be ended.

  President Lyndon Blaine Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” which expanded the Social Security Act of 1935 was a benign form of reparations. The practical benefit is it provided state-sponsored resources for vulnerable, impoverished, single mothers whose husbands and mates were dead, underemployed, or returning from Vietnam addicted to opioids. 

  Trump’s supporters use this wedge issue to try and cast all blacks as dependent on the “welfare state” mitigating our contributions to the country. The ignorance is profound and circuitous and implicitly racist: American blacks ain’t did shit to uplift this country, which begs the question then why does the majority continue routinely appropriating our culture? 

  These people for the most part honestly believe that ‘race is (nothing more than a fucking social construct with no biological significance - or to any other science that can be quantified) an affirmation of identity.’ You got to be shitting me. You mean to tell me that these simple motherfuckers on the low end of the totem pole cannot see that (in their futile quest to remain card-carrying members of the “white race” they also either implicitly or explicitly buy into the myth of white supremacy) they are only going to get the shaft.