By James Abang
Despite a near monopoly of power in both houses of parliament the Trump
administration failed in his core promise to repeal and replace
OBAMACARE.
The reason is simple: if you like someting you'll find a way
to justify it but if you don't like something, you may find a way to
falsify and vilify with a view to destroying it.
But those who chose
this path sometimes forget that a biased and jugmental heart must always
be lacking in introspection. No wonder Trump was unable to articulate
his objective well enough to recruit enough
followers.
Trump and
his handfull of some white Americans viewed a black man ocupying the
Whitehouse as something only imagined in a children story book dipicting
apocalypse or a righteous fantasy in a cartoon. It wasnt something most
of them could have conjectured could be played live during their life
time.
Ray and Arlene, an older, white Montana couple were
reportedly interviewed by Shereen Marisol Meraji in the weeks before
Trump's election.
The couple in question had settled into a comfortable,
middle-class retirement, so they weren't competing with anyone for
jobs. And yet, they said that their greatest concern was the dangers
presented by immigrants even though the area in Montana where they
resided was virtually a white town.
Whitney Dow, the creator of
The Whiteness Project, confessed innocently that he'd felt some
disorientation whenever he got a Christmas card with the Obamas Family
picture on it. The family in the White House had always looked like
people White Americans ostensibly know.
But when the Obamas got into the
White House the whole thing caused some of them a lot of disquiet,
which they had a hard time articulating.
Obama was massively
popular when he was sworn in 2009. Americans, even those who didn't vote
for him, seemed to be feeling good about the history making presidency,
for some, it was historic and somehow they want to just let it be for a
term - as if they were God. But it went into a second term. They would
have therefore have been happier if it just ended uneventful and done
with.
But the black dude decided to complicate the situation by having
some legacies to his name. One of which was OBAMACARE. To worsen the
situation Obama was a highly sound Harvard trained Lawyer. This must be
dismantled at all cost.
Otherwise how would the white guy from Arizona,
Ohio or Nevada explain to his grandchildren that although there was a
black President, his tenure was dismal as expected of a black man.
How
would he indoctrinate his children about black purported lower
intelligent quotient if a certain black President accomplished what it
took whites several generation of trial without success? How would they
indoctrinate their children that black is associated with violence and
nothing good if the only black President's name was associated with
"care" as in OBAMACARE?
Article 5 in American Constitution
provides for ammendment where any aspect of the law has fallen short of
the desired purpose. If Trump and his associates had a good intention
they could have identified areas in the Health Care Law that was
difficient in content and expectations and ammend them for the interest
of the American people. But that is not what this was all about.
It is
not about the interest of the American people; it was about Black
Excellence as demonstrated by Obama's legacies; it was about erasing
those legacies to ensure the younger White Americans don't get carried
away that Black Can Be Beautiful afterall.
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