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The Normalizing of White Supremacists

Alt-Right?  I don’t think so.

I’m going to use this space to rant tonight but first a story…

Like many of you reading this right now both of my grandfathers served in World War 2. Pappy, my grandpa on Papa B’s side of the fam served in the South Pacific and lost partial hearing in one ear. Mama B’s daddy passed away when she was in high school so I never knew him but he was a POW in the thick of the fighting in Europe. (He didn’t die in the war).

Like so many others…I was at one time guilty of throwing around the phrase ‘nazi’ to describe silly stuff. Being so far generationally removed from that war it never hit me in a meaningful way.

Until…

One day (well into adulthood) I was in the kitchen unloading groceries and one of the bags busted sending a pickle jar crashing to the floor and busting all over the place. Glass and pickle juice everywhere.

There’s this lady supervisor at our grocery store and to this day she guards the plastic bags like they’re gold.

That particular day I’d wanted the bag of pickles doubled bagged to prevent exactly what happened but she wouldn’t let me.

So as I’m cleaning up pickle juice…I say what started out as “That damn bag nazi…”.

Pappy was sitting at the bar and said something like “you know…I lost my hearing fighting the nazi’s…cleaning up pickle juice is nothing”.   Yes I know The South Pacific wasn’t Germany / France / Russia…but he did his part and was way more than entitled to classify it as fighting the nazi’s. 🙂

Y’all know enough about me to know I’m a proud card-carrying bleeding heart liberal / do-gooder. I couldn’t believe something so insensitive came out of my mouth.

From that day on I’ve always tried to never use that phrase when describing something silly. I’m sure it’s slipped out from time to time but I do make a conscious effort not to do it.

Awesome story, Texas Girl…what’s the point? You’re probably wondering right about now. 🙂

Y’all know we’re a proud Texas Aggie family.

But tonight I am a sad member of an Aggie family. 🙁

I’m mad beyond words that a place we hold so dear allowed a white supremacist to speak on campus.

Super mad.

But more than mad I am SAD that he was allowed to speak in The Memorial Student Center.

IN The Memorial Student Center.

A memorial to all the Aggies who lost their lives serving this country.

As a sign of respect you can’t even walk on the GRASS around the building.

As a sign of respect you can’t wear a hat / cap inside the building.

But now…apparently you CAN spew garbage supporting ethnic cleansing inside the building. 🙁

Ethnic cleansing, y’all.  In 2016.  At the 5th largest university in the country. 🙁

Right there in the middle of a building that originally opened in 1951 as a memorial to those former students lost in WW2.  Lost fighting…you know…the HORRIFIC CLEANSING of a group of people.

I’m just so very sad tonight. 🙁

And so disgusted at those of you who support this garbage. Those of you who walked it straight into the highest office in the country. Those of you who are NORMALIZING words and behavior our grandfathers gave their unimaginable suffering to stop.

Will we ever learn from the past?

Apparently not.

 

 

Post Election Blues

So fair warning…today I’m going to use this space to express myself.  My pain and anger.  Some of you might wanna check back in on another day.

First and foremost on a personal note:

I feel so privileged to have done my part for this campaign. I’ve volunteered for so many campaigns in my life but this one was special. Personal. Hillary you are…to quote Tina Turner…simply the (very) best. You have spent your entire life trying to make things better for ALL women and children. From the first time I heard you speak in person in a tiny South Texas elementary school library you were (and will always be) one of the greatest female inspirations of my life.  I am so proud of you…always…but especially today. From the bottom of this Texas girl’s heart…Thank you. 🙂

Now onto the rantin’.

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Dig in they say. Keep fighting they say. Words that are being echoed by compassionate / strong women everywhere today.

Uhmm no thanks. Not today.

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Congratulations, hate filled white, racist, misogynist human garbage voters.  Your new president elect pandered to your lowest common denominator status and y’all snorted it up like crack…or coke…whichever one you snort.

Bless your cold ugly little hearts when you realize you were played…as the only people who benefit from new economic policies are your bosses and their bosses and their bosses.  You know the republican way…the rich get richer and all that jazz.

So yeah, you let your little racist, misogynistic, hate filled hearts speak loud and clear last nigh. Good luck with that when you can’t afford the rent or to put food on the table.

Unlike you I’m a compassionate woman and my bleeding heart will even feel sorry for the likes of you / and especially your children…but if I’m completely honest a teeny tiny little part of me will take great pleasure knowing the impending financial hit will hit you the hardest.

YOU who masked your racist, misogynistic hate filled vote behind the guise of economic hardship.

I’ll say a little prayer for you tonight. Heaven knows you’re gonna need it.

Young voters: You’re on the rant list today too. You showed so much promise in the primaries. Rallying behind Bernie in numbers we hadn’t seen since Clinton in the early 90’s. You spoke loud and clear last night too. You had a little tittie baby fit and withheld your votes in protest. Good luck to you too when you can’t find a job after graduation.

More than any other group…mothers of daughters…fathers of daughters…granparents of girls: if you voted for this horrible piece of human garbage you are worse than he is. He owes nothing to your daughters yet. You do. You too sent a loud and clear message to your daughters / granddaughters that they don’t matter. You told them loud and clear that your hate filled racist, misogynistic, financial reasons are more important. More important than them being represented by someone who respects them as human beings.  Of course most of you don’t even respect them as human beings yourselves so I’m not sure why I’d expect you to hold anyone else to higher standards. But I digress.

I feel so sorry for the young daughters of our country today.

Strong women, damn y’all we’ve got our work cut out for us.

Rant and cry today and then let’s do what we always do…pull it together and get back to work. 🙂

On one tiny good note:

Texas…we got it within single digits. We’re getting closer and closer to flipping this state (way sooner than expected) and it. is. going. to. be. glorious. Some of us have been working on this for so long and make no mistake y’all…it’s coming. 🙂

Y’all have a good week and I’ll see you soon in a better mood. 🙂