As we celebrate the MLK holiday, the inaugural and the final days of the last four years, the assault on our norms should finally be coming to an end. The gaslight soon extinguished, let’s rekindle our sense of diversity to guide us over a more soothing, less bumpy political landscape.
Liberty and justice? I will settle for caring and empathy. For all.
The insurrection of Jan. 6 was like an anti-diversity riot. In one day, the White mob showed us what the last four years hath wrought. Our cries of diversity incubated and drew out our detractors, enabled by one man, who called them his base.
They needed Trump. Trump needed them. But the voters were louder than all the lies they kept repeating.
Jan. 6 sends Trump out with a bang. He will forever be about his double-impeachment. That’s no Ben and Jerry’s flavor. But it’s his ice-cold frozen legacy against Blacks, Indigenous, and People of Color.
With a Senate trial and other legal exposure, Trump still has a few more sordid chapters to go. At least now, his selfish acts will only hurt himself.
But his exit leaves us with the closure of a national mall filled with troops rather than celebrants. Washington for this inaugural is different.
