WELCOME new POTUS

WELCOME new POTUS

Writing posts daily -- not normal for me at all. I am fundamentally a lazy geek. But, I watched that pile of slate-coloured, files with the U S Government seal on them, going swiftly from right to left of Biden, as he signed them, and I wanted to hug him. So much of that Washington sump, which tRump was going to clear, but which he churned up instead, into a gross pulchritude, is being sluiced out.

Thank you, Biden, on behalf of the immigrants who have been given breathing space; on behalf of all the Americans who are living in fear of Covid; on behalf of the world, the WHO, the Paris Accord... from which Rump had peremptorily dragged America away; on behalf of all my American friends who cringe every time POTUS passed destructive burger-flatulence again. 

And now, if Biden can get the police to treat black people with grace and goodwill,  if he can create an America in which all men are treated equal, even if they are not so born, I will have to go all the way to Washington to hug him

Now, also, if we could just get rid of our dithering P M, always three weeks too late to any decision, incompetent and careless, I could really celebrate. 

B---er off Donald Rump

 B---er off Donald Rump

I watched the cartons being wheeled out of the White house two days ago and I had a Eureka moment. Someone in my house called out -- I wonder what is being taken out that does not belong to Trump. I didn't care, so long as the horror departed. America must be breathing a huge sigh of relief. A powerful gust of fresh, unpolluted air is going to blow across America, even into the lairs of the toxic Proud Boys.

Finders, keepers, my daughter added, when she saw a bust among the spoils. Probably that of his mother-in-law, I suggested.

America was going to be GREAT AGAIN, the demented man said. But how can it be great given what it does as a matter of course to its black citizens.  Because of this it was never great. Not in my eyes, anyway.

And , we in the U K , let's not pretend it's that different here. It is just a matter of degree. The discrimination in jobs, in education, in overall attitude to non-whites is fundamentally skewed. And let's not even go near the horrors of Stop-and Search, or the way black youngsters are treated in police cells. Lots to change here too.

I am reading Brandon Taylor's REAL LIFE at the moment; what it says about the colour handicap in the US is painful to read.