A fellow Substack writer included a song in a recent letter. I am reposting it now at the end of today’s letter. For I am in mourning. I don’t wear a lot of black. But maybe we all should - until the Neo Nazis have been defeated.
If I had described what is happening now to you back in the day, you probably would have laughed at me as a paranoid dude who had smoked way too many doobies. But here we are. We have an entire political party and the President of the United States claiming that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are bad things. Because white people are being discriminated against. Here are a couple of white guys. How are they doing?
“Diversity” is a threat to the fashionable new white “masculinity”. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. Their sexist thinking is toxic to civilization. May they be reborn as women living in Sudan.
”Equity” - what’s that? Equality? A fair shot at life for everyone? Joe Rogan, your shows are putzcasts. JD Vance, you left the hills and went to Ivy League schools to become an elitist twat?
”Inclusion” - when did inviting everyone to be happy and successful become a bad idea? Who should be disinvited? Women? Get back in the kitchen? Hispanics whose heritage in America predates the Northern Europeans? Stephen Miller and Russell Vought….you are the Goebbels of our time.
And then there is the emperor of non empathy. A heart so cold that he can allow the stoppage of food and medicine without a single concern for the suffering and death that will follow. Blatant, careless, oblivious cruelty. Why? To gain attention?
In 1971 when this song was launched we thought we were living through tumultuous, almost revolutionary times. We were. But there was hope. I think most of who were disgusted with the “ruling class” thought that over time our generation would make the world a better, more just place. There HAD been SOME progress.
To describe the current period in our history as a backslide is to be much too kind. We are racing back to the 1930s. 1890’s? Actually, it feels more like 1492. The Inquisition comes to mind. The expulsion of Jews from Spain. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians anyone?
So along with disposing of the words Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…we’ll trash the idea of compassion. That’s the new “Christianity”, I guess. Ice cold hearts of stone.
It feels like the monsters are in charge. The USAID just dropped. People with devices still in their bodies, children in hospitals with the care gone.
Ok, maybe programs can be trimmed, maybe we have lost too much money to poor management. Where is normal human compassion? There is a reasonable and right way to tighten our belts and then there is the Trump way. This is going to be four very long years.
I am not giving up and I am going to resist him as best I can.
Mahalo /Thank you for your voice of reason and words of wisdom . Knowing there are others out here who are awake and who actually care about people is uplifting . Namaste