I’m so sick of circular political conversations and the journalists, podcasters, content creators who keep them a’spinning. Are we really this dumb? And by “we” I’m speaking as a standard issue American, but when it comes to us… ain’t no we.

I love us. And I just want us to be free of all this.

Free of the burden of everybody else.

Let ‘em fight. And let them have it. The label of Christian, of Progressive, of Democrat, of whatever non-Black people are clinging to keep from:

* having to plainly state their personal beliefs

* losing the plausibility of not knowing exactly what kind of people they value the opinions of.

For a long time, I thought people were lost in the sauce, but now… I think they like it. They like being in a melting pot of liberal thought, to be seen marinating near the more flavorful - being softened, but still fundamentally the same.

Still fundamentally dedicated to the lie: A good god sometimes needs good people to do evil things to accomplish his good and perfect will.

Still willing to just look the other way as long as the level of noise being made by the harmed doesn’t become too noticeable to not say something about. Like the hum of a refrigerator, there’s a dull roar of dehumanization that accompanies the practice of capitalism. And non-Black people have NEVER not been overlooking some extra level being dished out on us.

And that’s why this current time is very confusing for them. Those people’s president has ushered in a new level of equality — he loves and is loyal to no one. He sees every average American as equally unimportant and expendable. And so now average American’s have taken to the streets because average people being bothered and brutalized by government employees is just beyond the pale. Meanwhile, Black people been over it. And the perception is that we’re “sitting this one out” and not as engaged as before, but the truth is we’re just unimpressed. The Non-Blacks are DOWN BAD. Struggling. And this is our baseline. Not one Black person I know has stopped or stepped down on any of the justice/spiritual/SOUL work they were doing before White Jesus took the wheel.

But so far, we are doing a really good job of not letting non-Black emergencies affect our urgency. And I love that for us, because ain’t no we. I want those people and their president to have the world that they want. Truly. I just don’t want to be part of it and don’t want any part of it. And there’s no good future that requires us to compromise — the old world is over. There’s no upcoming election that will be a big enough reset button. Whatever’s next, needs to be new. Instead of trying to find middle ground between Black lives mattering and the white supremashit need to murder — how about we just start envisioning, talking about and working towards a future apart from each other?

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