WRITER’S BLOCK & THE RULE OF LAW

“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”

That is the viewpoint of the current usurper of the Oval Office. With that attitude he shows how ILLEGITIMATE a president he really is — and I for one say he knows this dam’ good and well!
Among my fellow palefaced ‘Americans’, almost none know what it is like to have the authorities use the law as a cudgel against any group to which they might belong. A few more, I am afraid with decreasing force, remember tales from their elders about that condition. I’m sort of like that. While no family elder ever told me of such a thing happening to them, I read of how, on one side of the family, the law in Eastern Europe was never a friend of the Jews. And on the other side of my family, it’s easy to see that the law would have been no friend of theirs either — at least not in the antebellum South. Suffice it to say my paternal ancestors were the Southern whites who the ex-planters termed ‘scalawags’ during Reconstruction.
Well, fellow palefaces, unless we turn out in unprecedented numbers and give the formerly ‘Republican’ party a bigger, and much more down-ballot, shellacking as they’ll have never experienced in all their history (only 1936 and 1964 should even come close) a good many more of us will be experiencing that particular condition of existence in the years to come!
Our fellow citizens who actually do know what such a condition feels like (and how to go on living nonetheless) are almost entirely those of color: African-American, Latinx and/or Native. We may be under the necessity of learning this…