LADIES, FORWARD MARCH!

Yesterday, I heard there was a new petition signed by above fourteen hundred African-American ladies which expressed a disinclination to have Biden step down from the nomination. I don’t know what else that petition contains yet, but I’ve also heard a rumor or two that, behind the mostly elite clamor for that action, is the desire to remove Kamala from contention for the top spot.
I don’t know about any other pale males, but this one smells a large white rat at this point.
On my dad’s side, I come from the Southern white minority that were called ‘scalawags’ by the ex-planters during Reconstruction. The ex-planters called them that because they were willing and able to participate in the Reconstruction state governments which also included freed people and Yankee carpetbagger transplants. They were mostly independent farmers, artisans and shopkeepers who refused to use slave labor and whose voices had been muzzled in nearly all the slave states by 1840. That is, before the war.
If anyone reading these words cares to, y’all just try and convince this scalawag in his late sixties that something other than racism and sexism are in motion here!
I am only too used to party bigwigs, most of whom are still also pale males, living in terror of more doughfaced dinkyjohnnies skittering away from tickets headed by anyone other than a pale male who at least can convince others he’s more than just another d.d. But now we must all ask ourselves, aren’t most of our d.d.s already gone, either to MAGA or the next world? I mean, if Georgia — Georgia, for Pete’s sake! — can elect Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael…