Let me start off by saying, no, I’m not naïve, stupid, or a childish patriot with an American Flag pin on my lapel. I know that sometimes it feels like this voting thing is all BS. I realize that for years as a people we haven’t seen most of our political prayers realized in the time we would like, and yes, sometimes they seem like they will never be answered.
I would be willing to bet you the night Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer was savagely beaten (almost to death) she didn’t believe that this was God’s answer to her prayer for voting rights for the people of Mississippi. Fannie Lou said, “If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward (which was her height) in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”. VP Kamala Harris has resurrected the spirit of Fannie Lou when she says, “We will not go back.”
How many times have we prayed and petitioned God for what we needed and believed that God would answer regardless of the facts, overwhelming odds, and obstacles in our way. We believed that things would work out and did we stop believing…NO.
If anything, we gave God grace (time, that is, as if God needed us to cut him/her some slack) we didn’t stop praying and believing that things would turn out for the best, even during those times when we knew what we we’re asking God for was not necessarily within his/her will; I’m talking about that lottery ticket you just bought. We continue to believe that our prayers will triumph over the reality of our circumstances. Isn’t that what our ancestors did in the face of the greatest evil ever visited on a people?
Now please don’t get it twisted. Am I saying that there is some type of magic or deity in voting or in the Democratic party? Hell no. The only magic I’ve seen in politics has been the magic of this new Republican party. That’s right I said it, the only magic I’ve seen during the Trump Republican era is their ability to make things disappear, no slight of hand, just straight up raw and racist.
Just some of the things we’ve all seen disappear; I’ll just name a few because there’s too many to mention them all. It’s things like respect for humanity. They’ve made truth disappear and replaced it with alternative facts, they made friendships, family members and just the ability to give people the benefit of doubt disappear. These are just some of the things American MAGA has played a major role in its disappearance.
For me, the saddest and most egregious of all is their ability to dismantled justice and by extension, causes the disappearance of people. Many of us saw this a couple of weeks ago, when they made justice disappear and a Black man by the name of Marcellus Williams was put to death.
Mr. Williams was a Missouri man convicted of breaking into a white woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her to death. Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection, and the mishandling of evidence. Here’s what’s sick, sad and the epitome of MAGA, Marcellus was denied clemency even though the victim’s family petitioned the court not to execute him. Remember there was overwhelming evidence that put into question our dear brother’s guilt, yet Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson refused to halt the execution.
So why is Mr. Williams dead? Well, you listen to me good, all you Trump loving negroes! After Mr. Williams’ attorney showed a preponderance of evidence that very well could have led to Mr. Williams’ innocence and exoneration, the Supreme Court of these United States of America rejected two separate appeals to spare Marcellus’ life, even over the objection of Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. It was three MAGA Trump appointees to the Supreme Court and three MAGA-ish Justices that killed our brother.
Will voting solve all the problems that we face as a people in these yet to be United States of America…HELL NO! But with Trump in the White House, you can bet there will be many more Marcellus Williams, and I cannot live with that! During this election cycle I say, like Fannie Lou Hamer, ‘If I fall, I’ll fall five feet ten inches forward fighting for the freedom of my people, and I’m damn sure not backing off!’ How tall are you?
