Coup Klux Klan

The January 6th Coup Klux Klan

A Black perspective on a democracy killing White Privilege Flex

Political Terrorism Committed by Ring Wing politics

Trump, already seated at the head of federal executive power, has a significant head start. Instead of pushing up as Hitler did, all he has to do is reach down. This is a very different fascism strategy, and uniquely dangerous, at that. ~ AfroSapiophile, 30 Sep 2020

Before we begin: I was there.

Being a man of military experience among conservatives, I have the gift of immersion; I can walk conservative crowds with no one getting antagonistic, despite disagreement. This talent allows me to exist in tight spaces. So when I say I was there, I was there.

I did not enter the capital, however. Since I’m not credentialed media, I imagine I would be considered them, literally, and may be subject to any myriad of crimes. Keep in mind while folks will tell you they don’t judge a book by its cover, they do judge a crook by his color.

Violent far-right groups loyal to Trump, rushed through police lines and broke into the Capitol, disrupting the process to formalize Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Four people died, with over 50 police officers injured one officer killed in a melee, and the United States Capitol desecrated by rioting and looting. All because 81 million people told one white man, “No”.

Due to my passport to Trump-town, most people who I call the “appleknockers” were once again personally sweet. Appleknockers, are the family-oriented visitors to Washington D.C., who are always from conservative rural areas. The men look like Red Dead Redemption characters. The women look like Peggy Bundys and Nancy Reagans.

Sweet racist old white ladies struck again, smiling, with a pathologically ignorant sweetness that would put Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory to shame. ~ AfroSapiophile 16 Dec 2020

While I can talk about how personally sweet and seemingly caring some of these folk are, it doesn’t matter, being that they were here to disrupt democracy. I always identify the difference between a person’s disposition from their intent and function and judge only then do I accordingly. As a charming fellow, I know there’s a distinction to be made between personal charm and hospitality versus one’s objective or purpose. I wish more people do the same.

The objective of waging terrorism for the purpose of electoral intimidation is the position from which every Trump supporter is, and should be, judged. Not their Southern hospitality and sweet tea wit.

Trump’s cult attacked the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. I was there, watching them jump feeble fence-lines, pushing around police officers as if they were merely children.

The only reason why this happened is because these terrorists have the implicit support of the President of the United States of America and are being mobilized after months of coordinated media disinformation campaigning. This was not some on-the-ground, grassroots organizing of anti-government militants. This was the United States president mobilizing a collective of white supremacists, fascists, survivalists, and anti-democrats to collaborate to attack their own government.

Political Terrorism is a White Privilege Flex

Ever played a video game where you can select an easy mode, and from there, you can do anything with no repercussions commensurate with whatever infractions committed? I remember playing sports games like Madden (football) or 2K (basketball) where to cut all the rules off, and from there, push and foul everyone while scoring your own points unfettered. You can violently foul opposing players while they have the ball, even injuring them to career ending injuries, with no consequences.

That’s exactly what white privilege must be like. Playing a video game on easy mode. Playing 2K with no referees.

“Great job! Now you’re hated by both sides! ~ Trump supporters to MPD, illustrating the superficiality of their police worship is only tethered to whom they prefer the violence to happen to.

The observation seems accurate. With so many Whiteness Rangers coming from all over the United States where their police may exercise a more explicitly racist favoritism found yelling and screaming at police officers of Washington D.C. there’s no greater evidence.

To construct a deep loyalty to the “law and order” argument when it comes to Black people only to disregard that argument when a white power structure (such as Trumpism) is marginally threatened only proves that the main reason White Identity loves police so much is to deter, degrade and destroy Black people.

It would be incorrect to use the word love. Whiteness, idolize police. The problem with idolatry is fact that idols have a tendency to let you down. Watching Trump cult members point at Capitol Police on the Capitol lawn and calling them “Antifa” only cite “ACAF” (All cops are fascists) taking selfies with them, is telling.

When people argue on principles and disregard those principles fleetingly, only to readopt them later, one must pay attention to the details as to why those principles were originally dropped. You must also pay attention to why those principles reappear.

You cannot build a castle of shifting sands.

It’s categorically profane to think about how arrogant Whiteness is in how it routinely pontificates downward toward Black people who are being treated like second-class citizens in a first-world nation, while waging a political coup for a weak, idiotic white man. In looking at riots, Black people may wage short rebellions in order to fight back from literal state-sanctioned violence and summary executions by police (who, by the way, aren’t the “arbiters of justice”; a free and fair court system is). White people on the other hand, are literally prone to committing acts of war. Acts of war include but not limited to: kidnapping (i.e., Michigan governor incident), search and destroy murder sprees (i.e. Dylan Roof, El Paso Walmart shooting), targeted killing, bomb planting, and the threatening of lives.

It was White Identity that started dare I say the first Civil War. Maybe it proves true that it will always be Whiteness who starts political violence in America.

It is a White Privilege Destroy America

How exactly is Kaepernick’s kneeling during a song hurting America, but a coup attempt to reinstall an totalitarian fool, is not? American conservatism used to stand for something honorable, but now it is a cult, and a political suicide pact. The Republican Party signed that suicide pact by never being capable of critically judging their own, Donald Trump. Seeing republicans resigning twenty minutes away from the end of his tenure is like watching rats jump from a burning ship as sea.

Hating America, is a hard requirement in order to support Trump and his coup.

Hating America while covering that hate in an American flag, is white privilege.

It is not just a white privilege to criticize America; it’s a white privilege to wield a loaded gun at America’s head.

Black People are Always Harmed Twice

Although Black people as a community were not directly harmed in this coup attempt, Black people are always injured twice. Black people are first injured when we speak up and then get punished for it. The silencing tactic inflicted upon Blacks, whatever it is, is a punishment. Second, we are harmed by watching Whiteness do something superficially parallel and not only get not get punished but, in many cases, rewarded for it.

What makes things worse is the weak justification Whiteness uses in it’s destructive, rioting coup attempt. I always said white people would wage war if they were shot by cops all the time like Black people are. Now it is certain; they’d wage war for less.

There are no words for the measure of gaslighting Black people suffer each time white people decide to play Call of Duty with American politics.

Stop Demanding Emotions from Black People

Reporting indicated that five people were killed in this failed riot-coup attempt. One woman was shot by law enforcement, with others from other safety/medical circumstances.

There should have been more.

With folks like Jacob Blake shot in the back seven times for wanting to leave a conflict he didn’t initiate, and Tamir Rice murdered for having a toy gun in a park, Darrien Hunt murdered for cosplaying as a samurai, Botham Jean and Breonna Taylor murdered in their homes minding their own business, I’m going to be honest: I feel that these cops should have killed more Trump supporters in their coup attempt, especially being that those officers are literally defending democracy.

I served in the U.S. Army for 20 years and never literally defended democracy before. But here we are, with police officers — those who routinely fail crime-fighting objectives and never are held accountable for it — as the final line in defending democracy.

White people, especially conservatives who support Donald Trump’s insurgency, never give a damn about Black people being murdered unjustly by cops. White people’s sentiment is why police officers are immune to common American laws when murdering Blacks in the first place.

I do not feel sorry that a Trump supporter got shot while waging an assault on democracy. I do not feel sorry for her or her family. In light of that fact, I’m glad that one Trump supporter got shot. There should have been more, and I’m not afraid to say that.

White demand for sympathy, empathy, and etiquette from Black people runs parallel to the infinite forced forgiveness thing white people also do to Black people. I’m the Black man who has already briefed his family to never do any forgiveness press conferences if I’m ever killed by white supremacy. I already understand the racial currency of Black forgiveness, and anything tangent from it, like sympathy for the death of a failed white supremacist. I don’t care how much her heart was in it; it’s about what she was doing. With systemic racism, she is defined by the pursuit of her objective, not her heart. Fuck her and anyone facilitating what she was trying to do.

Asking a Black person to be sympathetic or trying to morally coerce respect from a Black person, in this case, is similar to demanding Black tears for a dead KKK member. And I say this parenthetically that it’s usually not fair to compare any random Trump supporter to a Klan member, but being that she died committing treason to the United States to retain a racist dictator, calling her a Klu Klux fuck is more of a pleasantry than an insult.

If you think that I figure all those political cult members who attempted that coup are equal or worse than the Klu Klux Klan, you are correct. Grab a cookie; you earned it.

The Coup Klux Klan, trumps, the Klu Klux Klan.

Pun intended.

I am immune to emotional coercion from Whiteness. I’m not going to feel bad for being glad that Trump cultist got herself killed, or any of them. You cannot demand sympathy when you never give it white people. Suppose a Black person realizes the totality of the threat of violence they face for merely existing under your white supremacy. In that case, it will prove impossible to coerce Black tears for your dead white supremacists.

There should have been more shot.

And I’m not the only one who feels this way.

The Argument of White Privilege is Over

There should be no more argument; white privilege is real. Blood has been shed. Bombs have been found. Firearms have been confiscated. White privilege is also the whitewashing campaign that will follow. Trump supporters did it, and anyone claiming that leftists, or “antifa” stormed a central government building with minimal resistance from law enforcement isn’t ready for adult conversations. Drop your Trump supporter friends.

White privilege is the means at which white people, or whiteness, engage in politics. White anger is a routine motivator in American politics; Black anger which is more valid and justified, never is. This is a privilege.

It wasn’t just a riot that occurred on the 6th of January, 2021. It was a terrorism. It was an insurrection. A political coup attempt.

It is important to understand that this was a coup attempt, not a revolution. A revolution is a change to install ideas; a coup is a change to install a person. The worst part? If a violent coup is successful in retaining or installing a person in power, then violence and warfare becomes the only means of transfer of power for that nation. Blood has been shed. Bombs have been found. Firearms have been confiscated. Everyone should take this hyper-violent, criminal-minded political Trump cult seriously.

If the FBI has been tracking that white supremacists are the #1 domestic terror threat in America, and a whole sitting-ass President endorses them on national television and gives them military commands for further instruction, wouldn’t that be a strong argument to consider that president a national security threat? ~ AfroSapiophile

White privilege is also a national security threat. White privilege has shown the world the security efficiency — or lack of — of a one of the most important government buildings an symbols of democracy in America, if not the world. What is stopping Russians or anyone else interested, in observing security parameters of a government building being invaded, and taking notes?

What about foreign allies? What are they thinking? What about other less-developed nations America seeks to influence into using democracy as it’s means of transferring power? What about adversarial nations? What are they thinking? Uncontrollable laughter?

Foreign leaders all over the world are telling Trump to accept defeat. Donald Trump and his supporters are a national humiliation. I’m somewhat embarrassed thinking about it.

I wish I could find a single Trump supporter who would be like:

“You know what? I’m sorry. I made a mistake. Trump was a mistake. Trump was a bad idea, and is the worst president in the United States. I want to do better, politically. ”

Being that white people of America are totally incapable of being ashamed of slavery, Jim Crow, racism or any racist institutions and effects, I highly doubt any of us can ever observe a Trump supporter admit they screwed up.

This is the part that angers me the most, because there will be no healing without admitting fault. There will be no self-reflection in the Whiteness that perpetuated Trump. There’s no such thing as white shame, yet. White people do the most damage and there’s never any shame or national self-reflection. Like all other harm from white supremacy, there will be a failure to identify the injury. It’s the best way to maintain white innocence, and it’s clear that White America prioritizes white innocence and white privilege above democracy.

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