They seem so normal........

They seem so normal, all of them with their forgettable social media profiles and benign posts and mundanity. I barely knew some of them and others were distant friends from when I was young,  sometimes we shared little more in common than partying a few times in some far off foggy memory. And then they went batshit helter-skelter seemingly overnight, responding like drooling Pavlovian dogs to an orange pancake makeup clown on the national stage who personified all their shallow base impulses without shame or consequences.

He became the jerk-off fantasy of every closet racist who hid in the shadows for so long, fearing the cultural stigma of being a white supremacist. They saw a proud ignoramus who doubled down on the politics of tribalism and fear, and he spoke their language, and low there was much loathing and gnashing of teeth.

And here I am today, 2018,  having these kinds of conversations with white people now.  

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