Thanks To Freedom, White Supremacy Is Thriving

In the paraphrased news this week, the president said that evil and hatred will not be tolerated, and we must come together to confront the issues that have challenged our nation for many, many years- long before he was ever the person responsible for dealing with it.


Sadly, he essentially said this exact same comment in regards to the hate crime in Virginia and the idiot in North Korea. While I admittedly paraphrased his comments into one generalized view of white supremacy, the options of what to do about James Alex Fields Jr., or Dylann Roof, or the KKK or white supremacy, in general, is about as option filled as our North Korean options. When Trump struggles to denounce white supremacy, every single liberal, and several Republicans, do a perfect job of denouncing and then proceed to offer no real solution to how you rid the world of white people and North Korean dictators with distorted self-preservation instincts?


The right to bear arms and freedom of speech represents sacred rights to Americans on all sides of the political spectrum. Why the right to bear arms doesn't extend to certain weapons and/or certain people who are not American is a bit of a mystery to me. If Americans were truly in favor of humans bearing arms, we wouldn't attempt to limit nations that realize nuclear arms anywhere are a bigger threat to those that don't have them. Similarly, if we were really truly in favor of freedom of speech, we would realize that the same people who lost the Civil War never lost their citizenship even if they probably should have.


Despite Donald Trump's apparent desire to turn our nation into a North Korean type dictatorship, he has no power over the voices that are Constitutionally guaranteed to be as pervasively annoying as freedom can allow- the ones chasing after his job nor the ones fighting to save it. Some of the voices we are hearing have leaked from inside of his own White House while other voices have come from fast talking Italian business men who screamed for 11 days on behalf of the president of the United States and on behalf of all of the voices that voted our national embarrassment into office.


No, not all of Trump's voters are willing to claim an allegiance to white nationalism, but they are certainly unafraid to be smeared with guilt by association, and they are similarly unwilling to speak up when Trump tweet-shames the entire nation, or when he disgraces the masses in order to appease his base.

Duke could try again if Donald doesn't do the will of his kind.

Free speech has been banned by many dictators because it is such a double edged sword. It might have been the reason Putin was able to mess with our election, and it could be the reason we have an unnecessary war that will surely render South Korea the biggest loser of them all. China will not allow for a U.S. occupation of North Korea and would be pulled into the fray just to protect their own national interests.


No president has done a significant thing against North Korea because North Korea maintains a geopolitical force field of sorts because of their relationship with China. Even if China will sign on to keep Kim Jung Un's rhetoric from disrupting the world economy, they are just as handcuffed to stop North Korea's right to bear arms as we are.

In essence, bearing arms and talking tough about what you might do with the arms you bear represents two of America's most sacred rights. They are rights bestowed by God, and no government has the freedom to take away these divine gifts. If Kim Jung Un and white supremacists were smarter, they would both try to do their dirt in silence, although it must be difficult to exercise your freedom to bear arms while fully suppressing the instincts that made you decide you needed it. Eventually, people with big sticks talk like it.


You can't exactly develop a nuclear weapons program without testing it, and you really can't Make America Great Again- as you see it- unless you finally do something more than talk? Actually, the talk is the true power despite the foolish actions of idiots who commit vehicular homicide on a crowd because they are utterly frustrated by all the inaction on his own side. The faces of white supremacy are obviously not old people and clearly unwilling to keep talking about taking their country back like most of the hood wearing old people do. The new recruits are taking this war beyond a bunch of talk.


The Civil War began the dismantling of slavery, but white supremacy has never been dismantled or marginalized even while a lion share of Americans stand prepared to watch the Confederacy lose again if they actually decide to try once more. What's good about America will eventually outweigh any bad that we confront, yet, not always before we allow the bad stuff to erect thousands of new headstones in our cemeteries in its wake.  Eventually, the voices we hear that counter hatred and fear disappear in a month, or a year. WE have grown comfortable with hatred and typically only respond to evidence of it with shame, or with more of the same.


America is uncomfortable with white supremacy, and the fact that they are free to be as evil and hate filled as they want to be in a nation United by freedom of all kinds, especially speech. I would never tell the counter protestors to not do what they believe should be done, but I pray they consider the most effective route to deal with voices of bigotry and hatred and ignorance.


In dealing with despots and angry idiots, we must realize that we are at war with their ideas, not their voices. Their ideas are not bred into their  DNA. What they get to say is more God ordained than an expensive gun, and is based on what they've come to believe, not born to believe. Screaming at them to stop saying what they believe is almost the equivalent of begging our fellow Americans to disappear from the face of the earth and go back into hiding as they were before they removed the hood.

Disappearing from earth will not happen to white people that espouse supremacy, and it shouldn't happen to North Korean humans even if they are currently lead by a fool. Bad ideas must be countered with better ideas. Those who believe in something enough to do something about it must bear the burden for whatever we have done and for whatever we have not done to address racial hatred. Voices have surely united to tell the story of freedom and liberty for all, but peaceful voices speaking peaceful conversations don't improve television ratings enough to be heard, and eventually, they grow weary fighting to be heard.


WE are a nation that ignored the worst of our bigotry until it was empowered enough to remove the hoods. Now, WE appear to be mad at the words they spew, when, in actuality, it's the mirror reflection these uncovered faces provides that is most infuriating.  WE would probably rather deal with North Korea rather than stare at ourselves in the mirror without turning our head or bending our eyes. In reality, resorting to war when all else fails is a natural reaction to a confounding crisis. It is a knee jerk reaction that never shows clear evidence of an exit strategy or forethought really....and it is sort of what keeps happening from the counter protestors, although Heather Heyer may have been the least hate-filled of them all. She was the type of person who lived and died as a true advocate for social change.


Once again, like North Korea, white supremacy had a better chance of going unaddressed if it tempered the bravado (and terrorist killings) and remained just a bit more quiet. By taking off the hood and waving the wrong flag, they give US an assurance that WE are not in that post racial society WE dreamed of, and WE are surely at war, but no longer against invisible combatants.