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They
first took black people by force from a place called Africa
and put them in chains to work for them for hundreds of
years, for free. They were able to save lots of money with
that free labor and because of it, they accumulated much
wealth and became a powerful and rich nation.
When
the black people finally got free as a result of a huge and
costly civil war, they initially started voting for a
political party called the Republicans because President
Abraham Lincoln, who was the president at the time they were
freed, was a Republican.
Although black people originally voted for the political
party known as the Republicans, they later switched after
the southern white folks tried to keep them in slavery by
way of mean laws called Jim Crow; and by using fear with
hundreds and hundreds of lynchings and beatings and
condoning the KKK and the White Citizens Council and the
outright stealing of their property and farms.
Soon
those black people got mad and started leaving the South in
a great migration and went up South or, as some still call
it, North. North or South... it was not much of a
difference. Different place but the same mean treatment and
bad laws.
However, soon those black people starting voting together
for Democrats and started getting political power. The
whites, up South (North) and down South did not like it and
they tried all sort of political tricks and laws to keep
black people from voting and getting even more power.
Soon,
the Republicans got tired of trying to woo black people to
vote for them and they started acting as if their political
party was only for them and that others were not welcomed
such as Latinos, Mexicans and Muslims...especially those
Muslims.
When
black people stopped voting Republican, this got some of the
Republicans really mad at black people and, later, when a
black person who was a Democrat became resident some white
people were really mad and angry because they thought no
black man should be president in a land full of white
people.
But
because they wanted to appear to be nice to everyone,
although they were not, they let their anger and revenge
stay inside of them, but still hoped that someone would come
along who would help them get "their" America back from
these other people who did not look like them.
They
tried by voting Republican year after year but the
Republicans they sent to a place called Washington, D.C.,
got there and did not do what these voters wanted them to
do. They felt double crossed and lied to!
These
white Republicans and their friends just got madder and
madder at these other people who were always voting
Democratic and trying to make everyone
equal under
the law.
One
day, a man who grew orange hair and made a lot of money
buying and selling real estate and conducting a reality game
on TV was sitting in his lavish high-rise tower penthouse.
He was
bored and wanted to be somebody and have everyone look up to
him so he thought that he would run to become the president
of the USA so he could boast to everyone how wonderful and
powerful he was.
So he
bought a big airliner and put his name on the plane and flew
around the country telling these angry white people that he
would help them get their lost jobs back and would keep
Muslims out of the country and make them feel good about
themselves again.
When
these mad white people heard this orange-haired man speak,
they were happy, happy! They went to his political shows in
big numbers and even when this
orange-haired man said mean and bad things about certain
people, they did not care because he said what they were
longing and anxious to hear.
When
this really, really rich person said bad things about
hurting others who came to his political shows, his white
audiences loved it because he was saying what was in their
hearts and, as such, he could say or do no wrong as far as
they were concerned.
Even
the white people who said they were evangelical Christians
looked the other way when this orange-haired man said bad
things about others and which things were not Christian
things to say but they did not care because what he said was
more important than what they read in the Bible or heard in
their churches.
They
knew in their hearts that this orange-haired vulgar-speaking
man was wrong and that they should have said so to him but
they loved so much what he said that they turned their eyes
away and shut their hearts when he said bad or lying things.
Even
people who did not live in America warned these people that
this orange puffy-haired man was bad and had a bad heart but
they did not want to listen because what he said was also
what they were thinking in their hearts.
Eventually and after a long fight with the Democratic Party,
this orange-haired man got what he wanted, to be president
of the United States!
Oh, his
people were so happy that someone who talked like them and
for them could now do what he promised to do and make them
feel great about themselves and their country.
He
would kick out millions of illegal immigrants, build a big
wall to shut out Mexicans from coming in and he would bring
jobs back from China, Japan and Mexico and make America
tough again! He even said that he would torture people or do
even worse things if it helped to make the country safe
again.
The
orange hair man got into office and people waited and waited
for him to act like he did when he was telling them about
how tough he would be. But, when he got to be president, he
could not do what he promised because this orange-haired man
thought
that everyone would like him and do his bidding right away.
The
orange-haired man was used to getting his way and firing
people he did not like but when he became president he could
not fire the judges or the congressmen or fire the civil
servants who worked in the government and who would not
listen to him.
He got mad
at everyone all the time and they soon saw that he was just
a rich meanie, a bully, who tried to bluff everyone to
follow him.
The
people who voted him into office were now mad again because
the orange-haired man did not do what he promised and they
felt embarrassed because they were now being laughed at for
being so naive and foolish to vote for him in the first
place!
One
day, the orange-haired man got tired of being the President
with nobody immediately following his orders; so he simply
got on his big airplane with his wife and with suitcases
full of cash and flew away and was never heard from again.
His
followers and voters were depressed, confused and mad and
decided from now on to never ever again follow anyone who
grew a head full of orange hair and oddly had noticeably
small fingers.
Contact
Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@Juno.com
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