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APPROACHING ‘CRITICAL MASS’?

Brian Meadows
3 min readJan 9, 2021

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The November election was both a mighty relief and a bitter revelation. The reason for the relief is obvious to anyone with an eighth of a brain; the bitter revelation was that a majority of my ‘fellow’ pasty-faces were quite willing to install a fascist regime! The Georgia runoffs which will probably conclude later today are something quite different: this is a revival of real hope in more ways than one!
First, it’s a sign that many different racial groups, especially the African-American women who won the November election and thereby saved the country, have been organizing for real and their efforts are now bearing good fruit!
Second, (and may this be especially heartening to all my fellow ‘race-traitors’ who saw the same things I did in November and felt the same way), our pasty-faced minority (I mean, among the pasty-faces) might just be approaching ‘critical mass’ status. I’m not certain about this and anyone can think otherwise but if you do please tell us why. This second reason for hope is big because, if we ‘race-traitors’ are approaching ‘critical mass’, guess what that means. It means, from the march toward making equal justice a reality, there will be no turning back! It means that even a majority of our ‘fellow’ unbaked pasties will not be able to turn things back to the bad old days! Is it too much to hope for that, even those among us to whom racism and bigotry were not deal-breakers are now beginning to understand why they have to be seen as deal-breakers?! OK, I admit it: here’s where I might be running away with this; better slow down and steady meself, right?
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Brian Meadows
Brian Meadows

Written by Brian Meadows

An angry straight white Anglo-Saxon angry at most of his 'own kind'.

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