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What to the MAGA Confederate is the Fourth of July?
The Douglass Vaccine Booster for Weak White Liberal Disease
You know America is sick when South Carolina gets rid of conservative white women in an election. Southern conservative white women were kicked out by Republicans for being only Christian moderate right wing? Huh? That is not a surprise, and is as I call it, normal. It’s the hidden conservative normal worldview that needs outting when danger lurks, and pretense needs setting aside. Women, like black Americans in South Carolina, should ‘know their place.’ It’s not talking about women’s rights with black women who are in the statehouse. What to abortion rights is the Fourth of July?
But if you think the word “conservative” applies to this group of white male confederates that primaried these arrogant white conservatives elected officials who stepped way out of line, then you might need Fredrick Douglass booster shot this Fourth of July. They have fooled you into thinking they are reserved somehow and patriotic toward American ideals somehow, and more deserving than the black female representatives who endure nothing but pressure to quiet, nasty stink eye, and endless condescension for those males who control the statehouse though barely tolerate “those women.” Tolerating abuse while enduring repression just to suffer the misery of hope that your work will bring forth a…