She's not your mammy

I'm officially fed up, and I don't know how much more of this bullshit I can take.

On Jan. 6, 2025, as her duty as the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris presided over the certification of the Electoral College results.

One would think she had herself voted for Donald Trump.

Social media erupted, calling Democrats and Mrs. Harris "weak," "not up to the times," "giving in to fascism."

Let us be clear. President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was the sitting president, and candidate of the Democratic Party. He had one bad debate, and the usual sectors pushed him out. Vice President Harris took on the party's standard, and in a one-hundred day campaign came close to being the first Black, female president of the Republic. She did what she was called upon. She met the moment. She hammered every day on the hustings just what a Donald Trump re-election would mean. She and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, spared no words in telling voters what was at stake. No candidate for president has had the time constrains foisted upon VP Harris. 

This country let her down. This country voted for the horror show through which we're about to go. This country disdained her warnings. This country thought it knew better. It again rolled the dice and took a chance on a bet it knew was a losing bet. Those of us who knew the assignment, and those in the rest of the world who had no say on the matter, will now pay the price.

But the election is over. Trump won. There was no hacking. There were no millions of missing votes. The only "missing votes" were of those who decided to stay home, because "they're not into politics." Vice President Harris had one more obligation to fulfill, and that was to certify the Electoral College vote, which she did.

Her role was not to refuse to certify. Her role was not to declare herself president. Her role was not to give a speech calling on her supporters to storm the Capitol. She did her job. We didn't.

She's not our mammy. She's not our Magic Negress. She presented a choice, and this country chose, badly. And I will keep saying this: a majority chose this, either by voting for Trump, or staying home. 

Now for these people to get on social media and excoriate her is both laughable and grim. Now the "uncommitted" are realizing that they might be shipped off to refugee camps in Jordan. Now my fellow Latino males are worried about what happens to them when Trump gets into office. Now low-income people are coming to be aware that the social safety net on which they rely will be shredded. All of these people thought they had some claim on Trump. All of these people have been asleep or self-delusional for ten years.

None of this is on Kamala Harris. She did the near-impossible, and almost pulled it off. But this country is racist and misogynistic. "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." We could have had a soft landing to ending the civil war we've been fighting since 1860. Instead, a new world will have to be born in pain and blood. Perhaps this is what it will take for voters to realize that freedom and liberty are more valuable than the price of eggs, and should not be surrendered because your son uses pronouns.

She is not your mammy. Fuck off.