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It’s an Actual War Not a Culture War
The One-sided Full-on DeSantis Assault using the Power of the State
When one side lives in poverty and is being literally killed, the term “Culture War” seems shatteringly disrespectful. And when the term is constantly being used by the media that even black reporters and opinion writers use it, you must question the sanity of our national sanity.
Poor black students are not, and have not, ever asked to go war with a state’s white powerful governor. In fact, I doubt any American Descent of Slaves (ADOS) has ever “asked for it.” Yet here we are, with this declaration of war so constantly repeated you have to wonder who fired the first shot. (Hint: it’s not the teenage black students in Florida.)
If the term “asked for it” reminds you of what a hypothetical man might say of girl or women was wearing a short skirt and was raped, then you caught my reference to that age old disgusting excuse. “She shouldn’t be dressing like that” is a phrase also heard, as though only a full style burqa could protect a woman from a man’s unconfined sexual urges as he prowls the street. And yet no one is euphemistically calling the sexual aggression between men and their female victims a “gender war.”
Yet it is painfully obvious that when I read this article by Mr. Charles Blow of the New York Times just now why this…
