Didn't Earn It...

 

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© March 27, 2024, the Griot Poet

 

Quoting Qasim Rashid, Esquire:

“MAGAs are labeling DEI as “didn’t earn it,”

“Which is wild, because, in reality,

“Generating historic wealth through two billion acres of stolen land from Native Americans,

“Enslaving black people for 300 years,

“Banning Asian immigration until 1965,

“And banning women from financial access until 1974,

“All without paying a single red cent in reparations or restitution,

“Is the living, breathing example of ‘not earning it!’”

 

Qasim Rashid gave us the codex.

This cryptography doesn’t even require a degree in hieroglyphics.

 

All of this has always been gaslighting.

Because painting reparations as only going to black people hides the crux of the problem.

 

You gave George Takei, Mr. Sulu of “Star Trek,” and Japanese Americans compensation for illegal internment.

You now allow Asian immigrants to go to universities and top STEM positions.

You need to give reparations to the once-enslaved people’s descendants.

You need to give the land back to Native Americans.

You need to give bodily autonomy BACK to women.

 

If you’re familiar with knitting,

Pulling out one strand can unravel the fabric pattern.

The entire system is corrupted bullshit.

The prohibition against the enslaved reading George Washington (yeah, THAT one) was enacted right after the Haitian Revolution.

Kicking out your French weapons suppliers probably caused consternation at the constitutional convention.

You couldn’t maintain an economy based on free labor when the enslaved realize that they don’t have to put up with it.

 

Why are they always opposed to raising the minimum wage?

It’s the same reason why they’re banning books!

Scientia potentia est: “Knowledge is power.”

And the self-assigned royalty doesn’t want you to have any.

 

George Orwell said: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”

“1984” was the transposition of the last two numbers in 1948.

It was never a year; it was a mental state.

It was a warning for future generations to avoid the allure of totalitarianism and fascism.

Fascism is for lazy people.

Such people are prone to conspiracy theories.

 

A massive cargo ship unexpectedly

Lost power,

A Mayday went out,

Ninety seconds is all the time they had to shut the bridge down from drivers crossing,

Thanks to sailors from India, there could have been more casualties.

 

The Dali is a Singaporean ship, 948 feet long, weighing 95,000 gross tons or 213 million pounds.

Plowed into the bridge support structure at nine miles per hour,

That’s enough mass and momentum to cause a disaster.

 

But,

The Francis Scott Key Bridge was brought down by,

 

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion,”

A euphemism like “let’s go Brandon.”

Baltimore’s Mayor, Brandon Scott, is black,

Maryland’s Governor, Wes Moore, is black,

The Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, is gay, married, with adopted fraternal twins.

DEI did it,

Or,

You’re just racist, homophobic idiots.

It has to be:

“Open borders,”

The Texas-Mexico Border is 1,392 miles from Maryland.

The immigrants from Central America and Mexico worked in the middle of the night, filling potholes and doing jobs most Americans won't do!

If “DEI” to MAGA means “didn’t earn it,”

How did it knock down a bridge?

Ahem: That’s because it’s called an accident.

The laws of physics don’t bend to your conspiracy theories.

Species survival has little to do with billionaires funding space exploration but [mutual] cooperation.

Never mind trying to find other planets when you can’t work out your differences on this one!

 

D-E-I-A means “diversity, equity, inclusion, AND accessibility!”

Because,

We want to include our sisters and brothers with disabilities.

Transpose the “I” forward, and you get the “IDEA.”

Because inclusion is the lynchpin,

You can’t invent a warp drive until you understand this.

I get that DEIA might be too triggering.

It’s been around since humans.

It’s an idea more ancient than writing.

It has two simpler words describing it: fairness and sharing.

This is something billionaires have a considerable problem with.

 

The banana meme says:

“If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to find out what the heck is WRONG with it.

“When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.”

Source: @welcomewords

 

Fairness and sharing,

 

The former words are anathema to ayatollahs, billionaires, emperors and empresses, kings, Grand Pooh-Bahs, oligarchs, popes, potentates, presidents, prime ministers, queens, sheiks, in comparison to the 99% rest of us,

Trying to live out our lives in relative peace and comfort.

 

Question: Who are the actual people who “didn’t earn it?”

Answer: The one percent.

 

And we,

Who built this country,

Every ethnicity, every religion, every nationality, every sexual orientation,

We, who have the votes to choose David Hogg’s “leaders we deserve” and change the narrative, the nation, and the world:

 

“We The People,” not “Citizens United,” deserve it!

Because,

“We The People,” not “Citizens United,” EARNED IT!

VOTE!