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America’s Founding Fathers, to the discredit of humanity, established Democracy, based on a white supremacy ideology, as its form of government and enshrined their laws in a racist document hailed as the U.S. Constitution. Their white supremacy ideology perpetuated the belief, grounded in idiocy, that white people were inherently superior to people of other racial backgrounds. They should, therefore, dominate them politically, economically, and socially.
Now I may be some dumb but I aint plum dumb ain’t nobody giving up that kind of money or gift without expecting something.
In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working families. That creates ripe conditions for demagogues to come out of the woodwork offering an easy answer for people’s pain. And if history teaches us anything, that answer is usually someone else to blame.
This was the United States in 1850 when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, legislation requiring that all escaped slaves be returned to the slave-owner and that officials and citizens in free states must cooperate. Aiding or harboring a slave meant prison and steep fines. Habeas Corpus was suspended under this law. Citizens were required to return a runaway slave to the chains of bondage or face the wrath of the federal courts.
You know, value everything, including the disposables of life. I guess I’ve always had this wacky inner protest going on, not against order and cleanliness per se, but against the clank of the trash can: “throwing stuff away,” then assuming it’s permanently gone from our universe, rather than floating in a river somewhere or buried in a landfill.
Let us be clear: this is not about law enforcement. It’s about power—who holds it, who questions it, and who gets punished for doing so. These charges are not rooted in justice; they are rooted in retaliation. This administration is sending a message: that when Black women lead with integrity and courage, they will be met not with respect, but with resistance and reprisal.
There exists a gross misperception that local mental health agencies and churches will take care of those people with mental health issues or disabilities. Taos is blessed to have multiple human service agencies, but they all have limited funds, space, personnel and resources. A few churches provide weekly food banks, will cover a single utility bill, or give free clothing. These gestures, while helpful and authentic, are paltry in contrast with the extremely challenging, occasionally dire, circumstances some of these people face. Many of my clients receive SSI, SSDI, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, EBT (food stamps), Public Housing or Section 8 housing. These are a critical safety net in many cases, and not easy to come by.
“Our neighbors are living in fear. And that’s what the administration wants. They want people to be scared. So, we’re combatting that by bringing the neighborhood together and saying, ‘you’re not going to frighten us into complicity; you’re not going to frighten us into hiding; we’re one neighborhood, regardless of anyone’s immigration status, and we’re going to stay one neighborhood.’”
History reveals an undeniable ugly truth about how white supremacists to this very day have received heartfelt leniency. The annuals of the American Psychological Society fail to diagnose a white supremacist as an individual who has a psychological disorder or disease. This raises a pressing question: does this diagnosis result from the notion that white supremacy is not considered a disease, or is it considered normal because millions of people believe this ideology?