Hey Democrats, Care to Explain This?

     America is truly a magical place. In America, if you are willing to work hard, there is nothing you cannot achieve. In America, at least in theory, you are free to express yourself, and voice your opinion about anything you want. It might not be a favorable opinion, and there might be a lot of people who don’t agree with it and don’t like it, but you have the freedom to think it and to say it. It doesn’t matter who you are, what color you are, how much money you have, or where you came from. Americans are a people who, again, at least in theory, should encourage one another to speak up and say what they think.

     Wouldn’t it be a great thing if that was what really happened. The experiment that is America would be completely proven if you did not have to think a certain way, or follow a certain political party and ideology blindly, depending on what you looked like. But for some in America, they are expected to adhere to a certain ideology, a certain way of thinking, and have the same reason for believing that ideology, all because they belong to a certain group. Democrats love to accuse Republicans of being fascists, but isn’t it a bit fascistic to expect one group of people, all of them, to think a certain way, just because they are who they are? Democrats demand that blacks, Hispanics, gay people, women, the list can get rather long, all adhere to one way of thinking, one point of view, to the exclusion of even considering another. Maybe the first question we should ask is, what are you so afraid of if they don’t?

     Someone that may just be beginning to ask that question is a woman named Mesha Mainor. Mainor is a black State Representative in Georgia. Mainor describes Georgia’s 56^th statehouse district, which she represents as “solidly blue and highly diverse.” Earlier this month, Mesha Mainor decided she’d had enough going along to get along with the Democrat party. She decided that the Democrat party really was not aligned with the things that were most important to her, namely school choice, so Mesha Mainor decided to become a Republican. She became the first black Republican woman in the Georgia House of Representatives, but being a historical figure was the last thing on her list of priorities. She said it herself, her decision was “not a political one but a moral one.” She added, “I have never hesitated, and will never hesitate to vote for the best interest of the communities I represent over party politics.” What a concept.

     Mesha Mainor described what came next, is that many of her Democrat colleagues “crucified” her for her support of school choice. She also got the stink-eye from those same colleagues when she did not support efforts to defund the police. Mainor is refusing to play along and do what the Democrat party wants her to do, as she said in her own words, “like a good little girl.” Switching parties is a gutsy move. It takes courage to do what you think is right, especially when you know you might take a bit of heat for it. But heat doesn’t begin to describe what Mesha Mainor has endured, at the hands of her former party. All because she dared to think for herself.

  

   Among the pejoratives hurled at Mainor that are fit to print include MAGA slave, hippo monkey (whatever that is), welfare queen, spearchucker, ironically by a person who claimed to know what was in the Bible, and plenty of the old standbys that are not used in polite company like the b-word, c-word, n-word, and a healthy dose of master and plantation references. Mainor made sure to add the tweets these offensive words came from to her own Twitter feed so that the world could see the compassion and tolerance of Democrats. Again, let’s remember, this is all because Mesha Mainor did what she thought was right. She also answered each disgusting tweet beginning with the phrase, “Dear Democrat, I’m sorry you feel that way…” Brilliant.

     Black Republicans and conservatives seem to incur the most wrath. Most have tales to tell of family members and friends, sometimes lifelong friends who, when they discover their friend is a conservative, shun them completely. It must feel as if you engaged in a blood oath at birth that you were completely unaware of, and if you break that oath, it’s a kind of dishonorable discharge. But Mesha Mainor also pointed out some very important points. Like the fact that the Democrat party has enjoyed the almost unanimous support of black Americans, and she asked what did they have to show for it? She also pointed out the millions of dollars going to immigrants and other minority groups while many black children languish in failing schools.

     But where does this idea that you must be a Democrat and agree with Democrat policy if you happen to be black come from? How has that form of slavery, yes, let’s call it what it is, evolved? What would possess you to not only firmly believe that, because someone looks a certain way, that they should also be required to think a certain way, and if they don’t, it is perfectly acceptable to attack them verbally in the most heinous of ways? There is quite possibly only one answer, and it is found in what might be an unlikely place, a quote from Malcolm X. He said that white liberals were the “worst enemy” to the black man, that white liberals would claim to have the best interests of black people in mind but were really just engaged in exploitation for their own benefits. Combine that with the admonition of President George W. Bush against the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” and you may very well have the answer as to where this uniquely Democrat party idea might have originated.

     Democrats are scared. More and more black Americans are beginning to see what Mesha Mainor now sees. The Democrat party’s only interest in minorities, is keeping them in a box, and trotting them out for show at election time. Mesha Mainor’s response to the Democrats was this, “I will NEVER apologize for being a black woman with a mind of my own.”