This November is extra weird. Without a shred of self-awareness, a lot of people are about to go from:
* Getting on social media to blame Black men for Trump winning the election
* Going home to eat Thanksgiving dinner with their family, most of whom are Trump voters
* Getting back online to despair about "Whatever shall we do now?" And "Something must be done!" And "Why did men do this to us?" And "Why didn't Black women save us?" And "What's up with Latino men?"
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You want to fight fascism, but the call is literally coming from inside the house. Not a figurative house. A real house. Your house.
Trust me, I do understand that some families are tough, and confronting your family is challenging. I get it. Sincerely I do. It's difficult. I'm not asking you to fight.
But don't pretend that you don't know who's voting for Trump, and don't you dare pretend that Black strangers that you've never helped, didn't do enough to protect you from your own family.
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Jesse Watters is the Fox News host that says nonsense like "men shouldn't eat ice cream in public." His mom is not a Trump voter. She is deeply disappointed in him, but tries to love him. He makes a joke out of reading her disappointed texts on air.
He recently shared on air that he has been uninvited from Thanksgiving dinner this year. She said he can come to the house on Friday, but not on Thursday.
Jesse's mom has taken a bigger step than most fascism enablers are willing to do.
3/3
There are a couple of members of my extended family who publicly support Trump.
I will not be sharing any meals with them any time soon.
This is also self-interest on my part.
If someone is going to support lack of food safety; it becomes hard for me to trust any food they prepare.
@michael_w_busch @mekkaokereke I visited my wife’s family in rural Virginia. I’ve never seen so many Trump signs in my life. Fortunately they all despise Trump. My 95 yr old father in law, his 98 year old sister and one of my sister in laws.
@michael_w_busch @mekkaokereke my FIL is no radical but when he set up his dental practice in 1961 there was a single entrance and waiting room, the local doctor had separate ones for black and white patients. So it wasn’t that hard in rural Virginia to not support segregation. Important to note that he wasn’t a come here, his family had been in the same location for generations.