Black Suffering a Pillar since the founding of the country, a post for Black History

So Trump is president and is doing what I knew he would do. No surprise here, astonishment, or even disappointment. He is clumsily doing what he learned from his forefathers. I reflect on the pain, terror, and death his forefathers caused and the generational bodily trauma still present. Slavery, an aborted reconstruction, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, Red Summer, Bull Conner, Red Lining, reaction to school desegregation and the Fair Housing Act, the terrorism of white mobs, the list goes on. In spite of this laundry list of evils, the African American community pressed on in faith.  Black Americans knew deep in their soul that God would make a way through the intense hatred some white folks had for the African Americans. 

Black suffering has been a pillar of social, cultural and economic structures since the founding of this country. This pillar is so critical that the country had a civil war that sought to address black suffering and it's importance to Southern economic viability, framed as states rights. The consequence of this was the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Whatever success African American have, even president of the United States, it is tempered by the need for some people to see Black Americans remain a pillar of American suffering. When this narrative is raised a virulent hatred can ensue as many people express profound terror at any African American success. We must remember the Tea party, the rise of nativist right-wing media, Donald Trump, MAGA, birtherism, and the insurrection on the US Capital on January 6, 2021. I think most Black Americans were not surprised. It was only a matter of time. Black folks expected this from white supremacist of all kinds who continually seeth at racial progress. These reactions were expected. In a country that hates African Americans success in thought, word, and deed, as a matter of primary political, religious, and cultural narratives, the tragic reality that U.S. democracy is under attack should be of no surprise. It's like black American success drives people like Trump and MAGA so crazy that they would destroy the country.

Black freedom and liberation was and still is a hard pill to swallow for a plurality of people. This is one reason why reparations for African Americans is so opposed by a plurality of Americans. At some level, this plurality doesn't feel that the Black experience is legitimate. This plurality may benefit from Black suffering but choose to live in denial. For this writer, the present political and cultural calamity around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is rooted in a reaction of nativist of all kinds to African American success. I imagine some say, in their prayer time,  "My God, My God, how could you let African Americans succeed, why have you forsaken us?" To be clear here, the faith of the nativist is grounded in a strange sincerity, undergirded by misinterpretations of biblical scriptures, that gave legitimacy to the slavocracy and its confederacy, up through the segregationist, Bull Connor and the White Citizens Council, which many White Americans embrace fondly as a matter of tradition.

In light of this stream of American politics, the question must be. "How do African Americans move forward. This question raises concerns around commitment. Is the African American committed to their own freedom and liberation? Regardless of money, status, fame, privilege, or position, as allowed by white supremacy.