The New White Supremacist King Charles the Third

Part I: A Thought Experiment for Respectful Black Americans from a White Guy

The royally chartered British corporate slave ships — So Inspiring and majestic! Photo by Meg Jerrard on Unsplash

There seems to still be some black American descendant of slaves (ADoS) that are worried about criticizing the Queen. Let’s have a think for a second. It’s all about the position, not the person.

To begin our thought experiment, (white people, you can play along) if you take you want to be respectful, and I’ve heard some unrespectful comments, think of the position without the person to begin your analysis. Take out the person, Elizabeth. Now, when you take her out of the picture as a human, can you see just the position? And let’s be honest, if she wasn’t the Queen and had died you wouldn’t have known about her death, and so wouldn’t have cared. That might help you more.

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Myself, I just saw a dead man while driving today and I’m all shook up. This black man had been hit by truck or car on a major eight lane highway. It really shook me up as I drove past, the cop cars had just arrived so traffic was still moving well but slow. I can’t tell you how shocking and tragic it was. I’m guessing he was middle aged, just lying there, not moving as I drove slowly past, and then I saw the blood around his head along with other fluids in a puddle in the shoulder lane, near the concrete barrier. I won’t be right for…