Remember that evil has
never made its way into mainstream life as evil. Its masters work very hard in
ensuring it comes clothed with the innocence of lambs. They'll call themselves
nationalists, not supremacists; alt-right, not extremists; movement, not
terrorists.
Too many good people would rather believe that the shocking
darkness that humans have wrought upon each other- holocaust, slavery,
genocides... will never happen again. Forget that the daily shredding of flesh is
a reality in some parts of the world where bombs and bullets are the norm. But
that's too far removed from the ordinary American reality.
Yet what is slowly becoming the norm in this exclusive
American world is little "innocent" incidents of the same chilling
darkness we assume can never happen again: a black student put in a noose,
swastikas and hate-filled insults splashed across schools and churches,
whites-only signs cropping up... Some people swat it off and think it all too
inconsequential.
Often, I too hide behind the false comfort that American
institutions are too strong and balanced to allow a few people to plunge the country into that unimaginable place. False because those few people are now celebrating
their mainstreaming, with presidential support, and those same balanced
institutions can now easily be run by the forces of our greatest terror.
The only
thing that will make this "the few" not go mainstream and become a darkness too great to bear is if you and I
care enough to call it what it is and shut it down with all the weapons at our
disposal when we see or experience it. Roland Martin used his weapon, you can
too.
