Being born in the era of staunch segregation, when Jim Crow reigned with impunity, I find myself sickened, disjointed, and angry at the country’s insidious and pervasive direction under leadership whose principles appear forged in anarchy, shameful incompetence, and overt, unmistakable racism. Much of this backlash was born from the election of America’s first Black president and intensified by the election of one of the most virulent, incompetent, and despicable facsimiles of a human being ever to occupy the Oval Office, even being chosen over a highly qualified and competent former attorney general and vice president simply because she is both female and minority.