We are smarter than they are. We are better looking than they are. We are more well-traveled and culturally multilingual. We are more empathetic and interesting and open-minded and flexible and curious than they are. And, frankly, we don’t need a president. Because we are more self- sufficient than they are and have more cultural currency than anyone, anywhere, presidents included, in the world.
So let them have their president. We’re the Americans that make this country relevant, interesting, fun, exciting, and the most culturally influential place on Earth.
So let’s let them keep doing the grunt work and worshiping their leader. Let them keep toiling beneath us in the wooden provinces of their own minds and elsewhere as they elect the Trumps of now and forever. And we will keep dancing, loving, creating, inventing, learning, thinking, growing, and changing the world in a few of the most powerful and dynamic cities and enclaves on the planet by just being our marginalized, ahead-of-our times selves.
Being the majority is not our thing. The best are always the few.
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Even her concession speech is presidential. So much grace, charm, and eloquence.
Which brings me to what I am coming to realize just writing about those qualities: The USA is not about these things. Grace, charm, eloquence, along with refinement, intellectual curiosity, and aestheticism, are values some of us carry individually, or in certain cultural subsets, but this isn't the U.S.'s jam. These traits are far more influential in other, more subdued and older countries. Ours, quite simply, is either too young or is not situated to ever be one of those places. This is a country of power, strength, global influence and military reach, and -- crucially -- economic prowess. Those of us who value the subtleties, the little dignities and elegances, the poetry and charm of character and progressive enlightenment, we are the outliers here. This is why we travel so much more than other Americans. Why many of us are not living in or have lived outside the regions where we were born.We can't lose what we've never had. We can maintain those qualities individually and independently of our national ethos. But it was never really about the finer things here in this country. The USA has never been about character. And in the hands of the President Elect and his cohort of conquerors and hyper-capitalists, don't expect it to get much more character-driven any time soon. In fact, I think we are about to see a USA more ruthless and brutalist than ever before. And that's one superlative this next president would probably agree with.
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Bl*ck Male Trump voters: "We don't like being told we're supposed to vote Democratic. We have our own minds."
Trump: "Then stop being manipulated by the left and vote for me instead, even though I wouldn't have rented to your grandparents 50 years ago and I describe African nations as sh*thole countries and, with your vote, I'm poised to defeat the first viable female presidential candidate in U.S. history who looks, talks and laughs like your mother, your aunt, your grandmother, and your baby mama. "
So the bl*ck male Trump voters decided to finally at this particular moment in time stop being manipulated and doing what they were told to do.... by being shamelessly manipulated and doing what they were told they were supposed to do.
#GoFigure 🤯🤷🏾♂️🤦🏽🙆🏾♂️
