I had a dream

[heaven05]

Last edited Fri Jul 26, 2013, 11:44 AM - Edit history (1)

last night. I was coming out of my regular gas filling station, it was crowded as usual, I must have been joking because I was laughing as I was walking out. A policeman was walking toward me looking at me hard. The other people were going about their filling business, I can't recall faces or race, yet as soon as I held this cops stare he pulls out his little pad and starts writing down my license plate number. He walk past me with a smirk on his face .......and my dog barking woke me up. Now I'm sixty five. I have not had a dream like that in many a year. Hell, I usually don't remember my dreams. I got up and went to the front window, nothing. My mind still on this dream. Okay, went and started coffee, fed the cats, dream still vivid. fixed my coffee, sat down and started thinking. This Trayvon Martin tragedy/murder has affected me more than I thought. I don't know about anyone else but since a man of color has occupied that house on Pennnsylvania avenue in D.C. I've noticed an uptick in pride among black people, especially the younger ones. Head up, shoulders firm and straight, walking with a certain jauntiness, I just feel more pride from black people and in principle I have more myself and deservedly so. Yet on the other side, besides the obvious ignorant and stupid white racism, is the fact of their feelings of lost entitlement and privilege at the bottom of this upsurge of everyday white anger and resentment? Or am I just being too sensitive? Black friends I talk to feel something is amiss. Getting followed by cops more, hoping that they would make a mistake for a stop. Happened to me recently. This is not my imagination is it. Just because our POTUS is a man of color, that the 47% that voted for romshit really do hate us that much more? Just questions based on societal observation and dreams.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. On this:

Just because our POTUS is a man of color, that the 47% that voted for romshit really do hate us that much more?

I think so. Sadly I do. I think they went off the rails in 2009 - and they are forever stuck with a blind spot to WHAT they are and what their CORE BELIEFS are.

And you know what? It's not just folks your age - and it's not just black folks your age that see it.

My mom is your peer - will be 66 this November. She sees it too. Maybe it was from being married to a black man for more than 40 years, having black children . . . but she was saying everything you wrote back in 2009. And she has called my brother a few times in an absolute panic (hearing this through him) since the combination of the Martin verdict and the overturn of the pre-clearance of VRA.

She just feels like her children are under *attack* for no reason at all.

[heaven05]

2. thank you

things are really ugly in amerikkka these days, and the election of our President has exacerbated that hate from the right. Yep your mother was on the case in 2009, I felt it, but things really hadn't clearly come into focus until this travesty of a verdict in the murder of Trayvon Martin. My mother died on fathers day 2013 at 96 years age, she felt the same. Peace.