Renée Good was dropping off her kid when an ICE agent murdered her clear as day for everyone to see and the government is telling us to not believe our lying eyes. I'm not going to pull up 15 camera angles with slow motion and AI enhanced analysis, because it is obvious from every angle.
My little weekly blog posts are not capable of keeping up with the way America seems to be speed running to fascism, this was never supposed to be a political blog. I write about what I'm thinking about, and these days I would be lying if I said that I don't think about what is happening in my country a lot these days. I find it odd and tone deaf when people in my social media feeds ignore world events and try to remain neutral. I understand it from a business perspective, but a lady got shot in the face by an agent of the state, and he did it because he felt like it.
If you choose to ignore that and go about your life, well, that's certainly a choice.
As I said, it's all happening very quickly.
I'm not qualified to write about the history of it myself, but as a Black American I feel like the reason the transition to fascism has been to fast is because under the hood America has always been this way.
I've always known that a cop could kill me, lie about it, and probably get away with it. Corporations have always teamed up with the government to exploit the communities of my people.
So I guess the real surprising factor is not how quickly fascism has emerged, but the speed at which it was recalibrated to include a broader swath of "others" as acceptable targets for state violence.
I think that's enough for today.