WHAT IS AMERICA MADE OF?

By Ramsey Cummins

That’s what America is made of.

Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses eludes to a type of aloofness associated with those who are undoubtedly blinded to the atrocities that have affected people of color throughout centuries. As we move pass the 2020 election our focus shifts somewhat off the poorly run Trump Administration that was littered with hate, spitefulness and indecency. Even though some of the ignorance and bigotry were strained, there still lingers an uncertainty on how America regains its fallacious illusion of purity.

People are forced to look at America and her policies not through rose-colored glasses but through Colored People’s glasses. Only to be faced with the same grim reality that has haunted our Black communities for years. Where were these disgraces a mere four years or a great 400 years ago? Billowed in an unconscious cloud of sightlessness beholden to people with the inability to sympathize with anyone but their own. Injustice reared its ugly head and White America was no longer able to hide behind their truths. No matter what side of the fence you are on with your political preference it’s the beginning of being forced, to face your demons long concealed beneath your masks. The last four years presented a platform for a great portion of American’s to stake their ideologies about racism and what it truly means.

They are forced to take stock in their stance on regression and oppression of people whose mirror image they do not share. No matter what side of the fence you are faced with questions such as where have I been or I was always here. For those of us who crossed the party lines we have to ask ourselves through what lens did I view the world before and now that the smoke has blown over do I again become complacent, nasty and brutish?

For those of you who voted not for political reasons but survival reasons have to ask themselves how far am I willing to go to “Make America Great Again?”

How far are you willing to go to preserve the White Race?

There are great generalizations in these words, however they are backed by the lives slaughtered by police officer for simply breathing while being Black.

They include but are not limited to:

Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., Vincent “Vinny” M. Belmonte, Angelo

Quinto, Andre Maurice Hill, Casey

Christopher Goodson Jr., Angelo “AJ” Crooms, Sincere Pierce, Marcellis Stinnette, Jonathan

Dwayne Price, Dijon Durand Kizzee, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos

Carson, David McAtee, Tony “Tony the TIger” McDade, George

Perry Floyd, Dreasjon “Sean”

Reed, Michael Brent Charles

Ramos, Daniel T. Prude, Breonna

Taylor, Manuel “Mannie” Elijah Ellis, William Howard Green, John

Elliot NevilleAtatiana Koquice

Jefferson, Elijah McClain, Ronald

Greene, Javier Ambler, Sterling

Lapree Higgins, Gregory Lloyd

Edwards, Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., Charles “Chop”

Roundtree Jr., Chinedu Okobi, Anton Milbert LaRue Black, Botham Shem Jean, Antwon Rose Jr., Saheed Vassell, Stephon Alonzo

Clark, Dennis Plowden Jr., Bijan

Ghaisar, Aaron Bailey, Charleena

Chavon Lyles, Fetus of Charleena Chavon Lyles (14-15 weeks), Jordan Edwards, Chad Robertson, Deborah Danner, Terence Crutcher, Terrence LeDell Sterling, Korryn Gaines, Joseph Curtis Mann, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Bettie “Betty Boo” Jones, Quintonio LeGrier, Corey Lamar Jones, Jamar O’Neal Clark, Jeremy “Bam Bam” McDole, India Kager, Samuel Vincent DuBose, Sandra Bland, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., Walter Lamar Scott, Phillip Gregory White, Mya Shawatza Hall, Meagan Hockaday, Tony Terrell Robinson, Jr.,and Janisha Akai Kareem Gurley.

AGAIN I ASK:

What Is America Made Of?

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