Joy For Me Not For Thee

Donald Trump and 17 others have been charged, arrested, and booked in Fulton County Georgia for trying to conspire with local election and government officials to change the outcome of the 2020 election.

Specifically, Trump and his group of criminals tried undoing votes cast by Black voters in Georgia where the governor, Brian Kemp, had already made voting extremely difficult for Black people.

And that is the thing, isn’t it? The nonstop effort to make things harder for Black folk.

Getting a job is harder, as are getting a home, or renting an apartment.

It is harder to get into university, get a promotion, get medical care, and to have a baby and survive having a baby.

It is harder to walk or jog outside, to shop, play at a playground, drive in cities and through sundown towns. It is harder bar-b-que at the park, swim in public pools, shop at the mall, and to birdwatch in public spaces.

In America it is harder to be Black than it is to be any other race of people. And that is by design and it is fed and nurtured with every generation of white Americans and folk from other races who attach themselves to whiteness.

It is even harder to laugh and have fun.

The mugshots of Trump and the seventeen other anti-American criminals who tried to overturn Georgia votes and thus the federal election were immediately mocked, memed, with created gifs as only the internet can do.