“This week has completely drained me. I am failing at seeing how to move forward. Failing at seeing how I can protect my family. Y’all, it’s been tough.”
I saw those words in a social-media post this morning by a lovely woman I met years ago in Jackson—a Mississippian engaged in her community and a loving wife and mother who lives in service and drinks up life. Like so many, she clearly fears the future right now as we are navigating a nation where a plurality of Americans chose bigotry, hate, misogyny and efforts to roll back every possible gain that communities long held back by a boot on their necks have made since slavery and early American abuse of immigrants. The very legislation and constitutional amendments that helped slowly turn that old frigate around are now targets of our new president and his acolytes.
Thugs who showed up at the U.S. Capitol and killed police officers are now free with a Go Ahead and Kill Another Cop Card.
Mississipians were among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by Blink Fanaye ” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1″ src=”https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?resize=780%2C520&ssl=1″ alt class=”wp-image-143576″ srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?resize=400%2C267&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-1-6_Patriot_Party_of_Mississippi-Pro-Trump_Groups_Storm_U.S._Capitol_-_Photo_by_Blink_OFanaye_3-1024×683.jpg?w=370&ssl=1 370w” sizes=”(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px”>One of Donald Trump’s earliest actions upon becoming U.S. president for the first time was pardoning all the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, because like him, they would not accept that he did not win reelection. Photo by Blink OFanaye
Immigrant haters are recruiting private contractors, ex-law enforcement, especially “tough hard-nosed individuals,” to move “human cargo” out of the U.S. after they are dragged out of their homes and communities.
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Rapists and abusers are ascending to the highest levels of our government no matter how much evidence indicts them as the worst possible human beings.
For many, “DEI Hire” has become an epithet and synonym for anyone but a white man,
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