Say What !!

So suddenly a certain sector finds themselves under fire as Trump has kept good on one of his very vile promises to target Muslims and people from the Middle East.  As I understand it from the news stories, that people are being detained after arriving back at U.S. airports and sent back to wherever they're from.  Some have green cards, visas, jobs, etc.  The thing they all seem to have in common right now is their religion and region from which they come.  There are massive protests once again and airports are jammed with people shouting slogans, demanding justice and fighting back.  Good for them.  Again, I think its much to little, way to late.  This is yet another situation that could have been prevented if people bothered to show up and vote in the numbers they show up to protest. 
I cannot even imagine the horror these people must feel knowing that their whole lives are being turned upside down and inside out because half of the country really would like to see them gone. Don't delude yourself, that's why he was voted into office, they want you out.  They want a wall, fence or whatever object they think will hold you back from entering here.  If nothing else, I hope the stuff happening around our country really opens up the eyes of the American public who has been sleeping on the pulse of how many in the nation really feel.  I am saddened to see humanity stoop to such lowliness, but not surprised.  If you want to measure the goodness of a country, watch how they treat their own.  In doing that NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED HOW MESSED UP THINGS ARE!!!!
American citizens of African descent have been treated like second class citizens since we were stolen and continue to be treated unfairly and unjust.  Rural citizens in extremely poor areas of this country fare a little better, but not much.  There's a need in this country to be of a class that is better than the next and as such, it has always caused a certain amount of friction.  White people have been led to believe that somehow black people are the cause of all that's wrong with this country, even though black people only make up 12-15% of the population and don't control much, but we're the problem. We are using up all the country's resources on welfare and food stamps.  When the plain, simple truth is the average person on welfare and food stamps in this country is poor and white.
We are used to this attitude and behavior.  Most immigrants arrive with the highest of hopes that America is a great country and they can do anything and be anything they want.  Some make their dreams come true and others live the rest of their time here somewhat disillusioned by the dream.  All are able to come and achieve whatever success they manage through a door that was opened by Black Americans during the civil rights movement.  Although Affirmative Action has been turned into a dirty phrase, we all know the biggest winners of Affirmative Action were and still are white women.  The civil rights movement allowed everyone who wasn't a white male to benefit.  Most do not acknowledge that their direct beneficiaries of the civil rights movement.  They like to think, they've made it on their own and therefore owe no one for their success, but you do.  You owe everyone of my ancestors and their peers who were beaten, raped, lynched, set on fire and countless other atrocities for marching to vote, for marching for equal rights, for marching for jobs, for marching for the rights that we all enjoy today.   Some know the debt they owe, but most don't and this is why I have sat out this issue as well.

When the women's march took place some where surprised, I didn't participate or speak much about it.  People who know me personally know I am recovering from being under the weather and assumed I just wasn't up for it.  This is not why I didn't speak out or march.  I explained in my previous post my position. (See post Aftermath)  For some of the same reasons, I refuse to speak out and march on behalf of the people being detained.  Unarmed innocent black people get killed in this country by the police, neighborhood watch bullies, etc all the time, men and women, even our children have been killed when police come to execute a warrant, and you never see any of these people out marching or speaking up on our behalf.  The only other ethnicity you will see besides a sea of mostly black faces is white people and God Bless the folks who aren't afraid to speak up.  If you see other ethnicities, its a few here or there, but never in large numbers.  So as far as I'm concerned this is not a problem for black people to undertake or deal with unless they choose to and I for one am sitting it out.  Of course, if he starts this mess with my African or Caribbean brothers and sisters THEN I WILL BE THERE !!!!!