Many people want to destroy everything rather than share it

I've blogged a bit about U.S. fascism (2024, 2019)

Christina Greer says this now ("Black Americans Are Not Surprised", New York Times, April 7):

"...this moment, the one that was explicitly promised by Project 2025 and Donald Trump when he was a candidate, looks a lot like what my grandmother experienced every day for much of her life. It is frightening and disappointing but not surprising if one knows anything about the Black experience in America. And not the sanitized just-so version of the Black experience in which America skips from slavery, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and somehow ends with a postracial America and Barack Obama."

Some people are eager "to burn this country to the ground before they share it with those deemed other and unworthy," and this threatens everyone. Everyone has to reckon with this. Otherwise we won't survive, let alone learn and move forward.

"I find myself reminding those who are surprised by this moment that my still very spry mother attended legally mandated segregated schools her entire life. The past has somehow turned into prologue, and the head-scratching of many tells me there is a fundamental lack of understanding of this country and what Americans are capable of."

Black women warned everyone:

"People like Stacey Abrams, Vice President Kamala Harris and Representative Maxine Waters walked all of us through the political, social and economic ramifications of a second Trump term. Higher Heights for America mobilized for candidates across the country to help energize and educate the electorate."

Greer's books:

Black ethnics: race, immigration, and the pursuit of the American dream is at the Brooklyn Public Library.