Dear Dean Magazine: November 2024

DEAR DEAN NOV. 22, 2024 

MAGAZINE 

END OF AN ERA 

START OF 

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The Goods 

Welcome 

05 Welcome From Myron J. Clifton 

08 

12 

The Pain Of Ending Her Era 

by Myron J. Clifton 

The Reporter’s Notebook: 

The Wrong Woman 

by Victoria Brownworth 

19 That Time I Saw The Future 

By Myron J. Clifton 

22 

23 

30 

Latino and Hispanic Diaspora – 

Different People, Different 

Histories, & Different Politics 


From The Haitian Poet 

by Muriel Vieux 

Voting As White On White Crime 


34 Appreciating Tim Walz 


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November 2024 

Welcome! 

The 2024 presidential election is over. What a wild ride and unfulfilling finish it was for Vice President 

Harris, Gov Walz, democrats, and people around the world who support democracy. 

We dive into the results, the data, and the feelings and emotions of a party and people – Black, Jewish, 

Latina women – who fully supported Kamala. And we venture into what may come next with an angry, 

vindictive, and revenge-wanting Donald Trump. 

We look at the communities that went against VP Harris to their own detriment, the Latino/Hispanic 

diaspora’s uniqueness, and some of the expected negative consequences Americans will experience. 

We analyze Kamala Harris stellar campaign she ran and lost on. The misogyny, the racism, and the 

promises she made to help everyone that were summarily ignored by most white voters. 

And finally in our feature article we write about the power white Americans have to fix the country and 

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Feature 

THE PAIN OF 

ENDING HER ERA 


The insidiousness of convincing Americans 

and Middle eastern immigrants their 100 

years of issues and wars, all created by 

European and American white men for the 

past 100+ years are the fault of the Black 

woman VP in office for 3.5 years Shows how 

much people WANT to hate Black Americans. 

Same with the US border. A sieve for 300 

years that somehow was all Kamala’s fault, 

according to the gop, big media, and even 

significant numbers of democrats. 

We had farmers blaming her for decadeslong 

farm issues, and Manufacturing 

blaming her for import/export issues that 

have devastated the industry for decades. 

People buying eggs were mad at her, too, as 

if she was in charge of the grocery industry. 

Yeah people are dumb. But you know what 

else? 

People want a safe place for their blame 

(and hate) to land. And in America there’s no 

safer place than squarely on the lap and 

backs of Black people, especially Black 

women, and especially especially the “most 

powerful Black woman in world” who had no 

actual power . 

That is also why even elected democrats are 

attacking her, happily joining podcasters, 

pundits, and media .. safely blaming her 

because they don’t expect any harm or 

blowback to their careers or persons. 

They have 350 years proof of evidence 

supporting their expectation of blamelessness. 

They’re also blaming Barack & Michelle-him as 

if he is all-powerful and her for their own 

misunderstanding “Go low/go high.” 

Even Black people are doing it. 

There are people who will pointedly remind 

leftists that Obama could not codify Roe, then 

turn around and blame him for Kamala’s loss. 

He ain’t Jesus, people. 

Too many Kamala supporters lose the plot 



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because the loss is so heartbreaking and 

devastating to us. It was a major slap against 

decency and the promise of better days. And it was 

a gut-punch that went through our political and 

personal “torsos.” 

With any loss we desire understanding, 

explanations, and order to explain and help us 

accept what happened. 

What happened “to us.” 

Like that Michael Jordan quote and meme: “I took 

it personal.” 

I did. You did. We all did. 

Love doesn’t always make sense and it’s not always 

transferable to folk in our circles. And when it fails, 

we know it hits our brains like death. 

And like death, Kamala supporters are grieving. 

Hard. 

For ME: please don’t tell me to get over it: I want to 

bathe in the pool of grief for as long as I need to. I’ll 

emerge when and where I want to. 

And I will grant folk who are also grieving Kamala’s 

loss to do so how best they need to recover and 

heal. 

But when I do emerge I’ll bear the unhealing wound 

that also will forever be a wound on this nation as 

we end an era and begin an error. 

The old political saying goes: Democrats want to 

fall in love with their candidates, Republicans want 

to fall in line. 

Think on how many of us said online and in real 

life: “I love Kamala.” 

I meant and mean it. 

I believe tens of millions of Americans did and do 

as well. 

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REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: 

THE WRONG WOMAN 

by Victoria Brownworth 

I have been a politics reporter for several decades, 

working for newspapers and magazines in the 

mainstream (Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia 

Daily News, Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, 

Village Voice, SPIN, Curve) and the queer and 

feminist press. I’ve covered national, state and 

local politics. I’ve even worked on a couple of 

campaigns of women Democratic and 

Independent candidates in my 20s. 

The stories I wrote the day after this election were 

not the stories I expected to report. 

I know politics. I knew in 2020 that Joe Biden 

would have a problem with re-election in 2024 

because of his age. I wrote about it for several 

outlets including The Inquirer and Dame 

magazine before he was even running. My 

candidate of choice in the 2020 primary was 

Kamala Harris. In 2017, I wrote that if Hillary 

Clinton didn’t run again in 2020, Harris was the 

rising star for the Democratic party. 

I have been covering Harris since 2004 when she 

was marrying lesbian and gay couples as District 

Attorney of San Francisco. 

She had been on my radar for a long time. 

Harris’ energy and drive and her willingness to 

take risks always drew me to her. And as a 

lesbian, I was grateful for her dedication to 

fairness to the queer community. 

It is within that context that I am still stunned 

by the results of the election--even as I know 

that after decades of reporting, not to mention 

six decades of life as a woman in a profoundly 

misogynist country, 

(https://epgn.com/2024/11/06/i-forgot-howmuch-they-hate-us/ 

I should know better.) 

I didn’t. 

Misogyny and Racism, Again 

Politics and feminism are inextricably 

intertwined for me. In 2016, I fully expected 

Hillary Clinton to win. When I was at the 

Democratic National Convention in 

Philadelphia, the excitement was palpable. 

There was a sizzle in the air. It was an 

incredibly diverse group on and off stage, and 

Hillary met the moment. 



Victoria Brownworth 

On Election Eve, Hillary and then-president 

Obama spoke at Independence Mall, the Liberty 

Bell and Independence Hall behind them to 

more than 40,000 people on a crisp November 

night, cold enough to see your breath. There 

was a thrum of anticipation–people had waited 

in a mile-long line for a half a day to listen to 

Hillary and Obama. It was thrilling. 

When Hillary lost, I was devastated. Gutted. All 

the words. 

I admit, I didn’t think it could happen again. I 

didn’t think Kamala Harris could lose. I knew it 

would be close. I knew Donald Trump would 

fight any outcome in which he was not the 

winner, as he had in 2020. I reported on the 

concerns over Gen Z not turning out for Harris 

and about the threat of the third party voters 

who had lost Hillary the election in those three 

pivotal swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan 

and Wisconsin, But I honestly never truly 

thought Harris could lose. I thought she shone 

too brightly for the stultifying misogyny that 

sundered Hillary to catch her up, too. 

I was wrong. 

Since 2015 I have written close to 2,000 news 

stories and columns about Donald Trump. 

There is no aspect of his racist, rapist, criminal 

history over 50 years since he was first indicted 

by the Nixon Department of Justice for racial 

bias in housing that I haven’t written about. And 

I wrote repeatedly about how Trump had 

altered the political landscape by stoking 

violence with his inflammatory rhetoric. I 

reported how Trump made white nationalism 

the core talking point of his rallies and his reelection 

bid. 

I spent two years covering Trump’s Secretary of 

State Mike Pompeo and how he gutted the State 

Department and turned USAID into his personal 

white evangelical fiefdom, even getting rogue 

nations to sign onto his own brand of antiwoman, 

anti-LGBTQ ideology. 

I won a series of journalism awards for my 

coverage of the pandemic, so I also didn’t get the 

collective mind-wipe that so much of America 

seemed to embrace about whether we were 

better off four years ago. I kept writing that this 

was in fact another big lie of the Trump reelection 

campaign. 

No, we were not better off: We couldn’t leave our 

houses. Our kids couldn’t go to school (my wife, a 

college professor, was teaching in her studio via 

Zoom for a year to a shattered college freshman 

trapped in home environments made more 

complicated by the stressors of the pandemic). 

Our loved ones would go into the hospital and 

never come out. My sister in law’s mother died of 

Covid and the family couldn’t hold a funeral. 

More than 50,000 kids lost both parents. It was 

devastating. 

So within that base of knowledge and breadth of 

reporting, no, it never occurred to me that 

Kamala Harris could actually lose. I watched her 

take command of her candidacy and hit the 

tarmac running, be it in Chucks or Jimmy Choos. 

She was elegant, smart, funny, wonky--but not 

too wonky, because that hurt Hillary. She was 

deeply compassionate. She laughed. She teared 

up when she spoke about her dying mother and 

Americans with similar stories. 

Kamala Wasn’t Hillary, 2024 Wasn’t 2016 

Kamala Harris wasn’t Hillary. That rarified 

creature Hillary Clinton, who had been forged 




through the fires of mainstream Democratic 

politics, starting with her husband’s successful 

presidency and crushing intern sex scandal. 

She lost her first presidential bid to Obama but 

went on to a critically successful role as his 

Secretary of State after being the senator that 

helped New York through 9/11. Hillary made it all 

the way to being the first woman nominee of a 

major political party. No other woman in America 

could have broken into that aerie of maleness–but 

she did it. 

Yet the calls for Hillary to “disappear” and “get off 

the stage” were fast and furious after her loss to 

Trump. While other men who lost elections 

continued to be present in American politics, 

Hillary was ordered to the woods to “go knit.” 

I didn’t think Kamala Harris could suffer a similar 

fate because she was so very different from 

Hillary. Harris had none of the personal baggage 

that weighed on Hillary. She had no “but her 

emails” misstep. She never talked about her 

gender or even her race. She never responded to 

the attacks from her opponent. She learned fast 

from the perceived mistakes of Hillary’s bid. 

Where Hillary was often perceived–wrongly and 

deeply misogynistically–as a b*tch for her often 

angry and some said “abrasive” responses to both 

Trump and the media, Kamala just side-stepped 

those moments with “next.” She refused the bait– 

much to interviewers’ chagrin. 

Kamala generated excitement among so many 

disparate groups. Despite being a boomer and 

turning 60 on the campaign trail, Kamala exuded 

youth and vitality and at times a seemingly 

superhuman Marvel-esque energy as she 

crisscrossed the country introducing her policy 

and herself to crowds desperate for the 

freshness she had to offer. 

The fact is, Kamala Harris was the shiniest object 

the Democrats had presented in years. She was 

sparkly and new and incredibly engaging. She 

had a “je ne sais quoi” that elevated her. By 

October I had covered enough of her speeches 

that I could recite them verbatim, yet she always 

felt fresh. She was always talking to the new 

crowd, the new group, the new rally. She never 

lectured, only cajoled. 

Kamala Harris seemed–and polls reflected this 

right till the very end–to captivate major groups 

of voters, most notably women and youth voters 

and women in their 50s and 60s who had fought 

for women’s rights and didn’t want to give them 

up. 

Kamala had lines that resonated. She talked 

about “the promise of America.” She said, “hard 

work is good work.” She said, “when we fight, we 

win.” She said we were “not going back.” 

Not THAT Woman 

But now we have gone back. Way back. Back 

before 2016, back to a time when women were 

adjuncts, not agents. We are going back to 

exactly what Hillary warned us of in 2016 and 

Kamala warned us of these past few months. 

There is a T-shirt young MAGA men are wearing 

that speaks succinctly to this election and 

Kamala’s loss. It reads: “Your body, my choice.” 

Rapey. Controlling. All the things women have 

heard for years from incel culture. It’s disgusting 

as it is threatening. It’s also the looming new 

normal. 




Democratic strategists have been talking since 

Election Night about what Kamala did wrong. 

Just like they did about Hillary in 2016. Even 

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi took time to throw 

Kamala under the bus at week’s end. 

Yet the problem was never Kamala, nor was it 

Hillary. It was the misogyny that is the most 

addictive of all drugs. It was racism--either 

blowback on Hillary from GOP hatred of Obama 

or more directly on Kamala, who Fox News kept 

calling a DEI hire. It was white Democrats who 

have not voted majority Democratic in decades. 

It was white women of both parties who keep 

promising to vote for a woman president and 

then don’t. 

It was Latino men who thought when Trump was 

calling men like them criminals, he meant 

someone else. It was first time voters who 

inexplicably thought Trump the billionaire felon 

had more to offer them and had more affinity 

with them than the woman who had dedicated 

her life to public service. 

Now What? 

It is perhaps facile to say that Kamala Harris did 

not fail voters, voters failed her. Yet it’s an actual 

truth. In addition, the media failed her–as they 

did in 2019 and throughout her vice presidency, 

as I have written for years. The misogynoir has 

always been in play for her. 

The sane washing of Trump by legacy media and 

cable news was non-stop. Harris was expected to 

be flawless while Trump could ramble, stumble 

and lie and headlines would minimize what had 

been said or done. 




The desire to assign blame will continue for 

weeks–likely through the end of the Biden-Harris 

administration. Resist the narrative that Kamala 

was the problem when we know it was never 

Hillary’s emails or a missed trip to Wisconsin. 

a deal on Gaza. It’s a powerful and daunting 

moment for Biden. 

Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Project 

2025–what I wrote was his plan to remake 

America-- but he’s already talking about 

implementing it. Biden can be a buffer against 

that. And it is to be hoped that with Harris’s help 

behind the scenes, he will meet that moment. 

It’s always been about keeping women from a 

seat at the table. Shirley Chisholm told us that 

when Hillary was still in college. Democrats need 

to make changes for 2028 but thinking that 

Harris was the problem means the same 

mistakes will be made–and they were not her 

errors. As the next month’s wind down, 

President Biden should be dedicating the end of 

his presidency to writing executive orders every 

day–if only to slow down Trump’s plans to wreck 

America starting on day one. Biden should be 

protecting immigrant families in as many ways 

as he can. He should be protecting the civil 

service. He should be issuing massive pardons 

for people in prison for weed and should pardon 

any abortion provider or doctor or woman 

under indictment for saving her own life or that 

of others. He should be protecting our national 

parks and our air and water. 

Biden has real opportunities to create some 

headlines going out, to create some real change 

and to build on his legacy. While some may 

claim this is just a Pyrrhic victory and ultimately 

will be overturned by Trump, in fact years went 

by before Biden overturned many Trump’s 

executive orders and some have yet to be 

overturned–so it does indeed matter.Biden can 

take executive actions to try and build up some 

of the guardrails the looming Trump presidency 

endangers. Biden can truly be a block to 

authoritarianism. He can protect our 

environment. He can try one more time to broker 

Because everything Kamala Harris told us about 

Trump being a threat to America was true. 

Victoria A. Brownworth is a Pulitzer Prizenominated 

and Society of Professional 

Journalists Award-winning journalist whose work 

has appeared in The New York Times, the Los 

Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 

Baltimore Sun, DAME, Ms., The Nation, The 

Advocate, Bay Area Reporter and Curve among 

other publications. 

She is the author and editor of more than 20 

books, including the Lambda Award-winning 

Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian 

Cancer Epidemic and Ordinary Mayhem: A Novel, 

and the award-winning From Where They Sit: 

Black Writers Write Black Youth and Too Queer: 

Essays from a Radical Life. She lives in 

Philadelphia. 

www.victoriabrownworth.com 



Feature 

THAT TIME I 

saw the future 


I wrote this in 2024-2015 as an opening world building to my novel BLM-PD: Revenge Was Inevitable. 

It was written before Trump was running and elected. It was set “in the near future.” These 2 pages 

accurately foretold the Trump we are now seeing. Check it out. 


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Feature 

LATINO AND HISPANIC DIASPORA: 

Different People, Different Histories, & Different Politics 


Countless articles are written about the racism & 

It’s exhausting. I think democrats understand this 

misogyny but none/few about what I see as the 

intrinsically, but laziness wins out too often. 

main issue. One day we will understand that 

“Latino” “Hispanic” “Latin America” “South 

Black people hate to be told Go back to Africa for 

America” “Central America” and Caribbean 

numerous reasons, of course, and a common 

peoples aren’t the same and grouping them into 

rebuttal is… “Where, what country, etc.? because a 

statements like “Latino people should…” strips 

ridiculous racist comment deserves nothing more. 

away sovereignty and historicity of ~700m 

people. It’s akin to saying “Africans should...” 

We know the absurdity of it. 

when there are 54 nations on the world’s largest 

continent. Different people, histories, cultures, 

But people, including democrats, will defend it and 

religions, foods, music, and political ideologies. 

rationalize it ad nauseum. It’s lazy, reductive, and 

insulting, and democrats really should cut it out. 

It’s the language of erasure and supremacy. 

Puerto Rican Americans vote majority democratic. 

Other parts of the diaspora do as well. Some do not. 

Even with the specificity of the racist insults the 

But the attacks consider everyone as the same and 

Trump “comedian” leveled at Puerto Ricans far 

that’s, to me, counterproductive and ignorantly and 

too many democrats resorted to “Latinos learned 

needlessly harmful. 

a lesson” and other misguided rhetoric grouping 

everyone together when the target was 

We can and should do better. 

specifically Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rico isn’t Cuba 

isn’t Venezuela isn’t Mexico isn’t DR isn’t 

When “grouped” the diaspora represents the largest 

Honduras isn’t Argentina isn’t Bolivia. As a Black 

minority in the nation (and growing) and the long 

American I know the insidious of mass groupingwe 

spend energy pushing back with “We are not 

term most critical voting block for both parties. 

a monolith” 

Democrats can only shape our future by fully and 

intelligently welcoming the entirety of the diaspora, 

It’s a never-ending battle with people who have 

correctly and with specificity. 

no issue being specific with Italy, Greece, 

Germany, England, Ireland, Austria, but for some 

reason find it too difficult to identify the rest of 

the world the same way. 



From The Haitian Poet 

For the last 10 years, the media has had one 

story. There is not one single day in the last 10 

years when one Donald J. Trump hasn’t been the 

subject of one media story or 100. 

Whether those media were right, left, center, 

independent, podcasters, content creators, 

newspapers, even late-night hosts and 

comedians, over 90% of their contents were 

centered around the former president. 

Good or bad, branding is branding. While 

audiences heard countless tales of Trump, along 

the words; strong, charismatic, felon and others. 

Again branding. 

At the same time, the visibility of the democratic 

party in the media was almost non-existent and 

when they did talk about the democratic party it 

was to criticize, to analyze to death, or to put 

down something. The few positive takes, usually 

by a few content creators or new upcoming 

podcasters, were drowned under a deluge of 

criticism. 

When democrats were interviewed it was often 

about, you guess it Trump or some other rightwing 

stuff. No matter what they were there to 

discuss, invariably the subject shifted to “what 

do you think of what Trump said or did?”. 

While the media whined constantly about the 

democrats not delivering their plans or 

messages to the people, they forgot a key point; 

they are part of the distribution system, their job 

is to inform the public. A task at which they 

failed miserably on both sides. 

Failing to accurately portray the dangers of the 

right winning and the advantages of the 

democratic agenda, even the bare minimum. 

Now of course, that Trump is the president elect, 

suddenly they are giving out information they 

should have been giving out before and also now 

looking for a scapegoat for their failure to do their 

duty and blaming the voters or the democratic 

party or fox news… well I got news for them, they 

are as guilty of misinformation as fox news, they 

are as guilty for keeping their audience uninformed 

as fox news. 

There are a number of reasons why the democratic 

party lost, but the through line cannot be ignored, 

if the voters were not informed, the fault lies with 

the media, for the media cannot claim that they 

were not informed, they knew both platforms, they 

knew the pros and cons of both, they failed to 

disclose those facts to their audiences, thus giving 

even more credibility to the likes of fox as they were 

often hammering the same bullshit. 

And while content creators did their goddam best 

to fill in the void and spread the news, most of the 

people still think that established media is a trusted 

source of information and figured the content 

creators were exaggerating both the dangers of 

trump and the promises of the democratic party. 

So once more I will tell you, the weak link in the 4 

pillars of our democracy turned out to be the 

media. I personally place most of the blame on 

them. 

©Muriel Vieux — #TheAmericanHaitianPoet 



F e a t u r e d B u s i n e s s 

Maurice Woodson 

Maurice Woodson Began his career in the publishing Business. 

He has written for Right On! Magazine, Black Elegance, Class 

Magazine as well as ran Black Beat and Spice Superposter 

music Magazines as Editor N Chief. In the early 200s he owned 

The Suburban herald, a small newspaper in upstate New York. 

He then ventured into the music industry managing artists and 

briefly working as A&R and A&M records. Looking to be more 

involved in telling stories he began writing screenplays and 

also honed his craft working as a script consultant. His love of 

creating and storytelling led to him writing Novels and 

children's Books. 

Woodson has been studying Black history and true History for 

nearly two decades. He believes that if schools won't teach our 

stories we must because we need to know how we got here in 

order to know where we are going. "We must plant seed in 

young minds, inspire. and empower." This has led to the 

publishing of children's books including the popular "We Know 

The ABCs Of Black History...Do You? and "I love What I See 

When I Look At Me." 

Woodson is also the owner of upcoming streaming service 

NXS Entertainment, which will feature diverse and 

inclusive movies, Series, Documentaries and more. 



Some Of What Trump & His Project 25 

Creators Have Promised To End/Eliminate 

Protection for preexisting conditions. 

Staying on parents' insurance until 26. 

Reproductive rights. 

LGBTQ+ rights. 

Voting rights. 

Paid vacations and holidays, 40-hour workweeks, 

child labor protections, paid overtime--gone. 

Department of Labor. 

National Hurricane Center. 

USDA, meat inspections, CDC, Dept of Education 

NOAA. 

$35 insulin is gone. 

National Parks 

Medicare negotiating drug prices--gone. 

Reproductive rights. 

EPA, HHS, Dept of Energy--gone. 

All consumer protections--gone. 

Student loans. Pell grants. 

Medicare. Medicaid. SCHIP. ACA. 

Social Security. 

Miranda rights. 

Dept of Transportation. 

FAA. FTC. FEC. HUD. Interior. 

List culled by: DCPetterson.bsky.social 

@dcpetterson 



Hannah Jones Writes: Economic Anxiety? 

White unemployment rate: 3.2 percent 

Black unemployment rate: 6.3 percent 

Highest white unemployment rate in the nation: 

California at 4.8 percent (The highest white 

unemployment is lower than the average 

unemployment rate for Black Americans) 

Highest Black unemployment rate in the nation: 

Kentucky at 11.3 

White homeownership rate: 74.2 

Black homeownership rate: 45.7 

The 28-point gap is wider than it was during legal 

segregation 

Black poverty rate: 20.6 

White poverty rate: 9.5 

Average student loan debt 

White borrowers: $46,000 

Black borrowers: $53,000 

Wealth gap between white and Black Americans is 

$172,000, the widest it's been since 2007. 

Black families are the most impacted by inflation. 

Percent of Black households that experience food 

insecurity: 21 percent 

Percent of white households that experience food 

insecurity: 8 percent 

Source: https://www.epi.org/data/ 

Pro-democracy journalist @nytmag 

//Creator #1619Project//Co-founder @IBWellsSociety 

//Founder @c4jdhowardu 

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could control the weather, God called 911, or aliens took our souls? Would we notice? 

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Feature 

VOTING AS WHITE 

ON WHITE CRIME 


I think something missed in the election analysis 

and why folk voted for Trump is: 

White Trump voters repudiating white 

democratic voters. 

The oldest national dispute. 

We’re quick to racialize the results because that is 

the foundation of the nation and because it’s 

certainly correct. It’s also correct that our society 

is hyper patriarchal. 

But we tend to ignore small and, in this case, the 

larger issue: whites rejecting other whites. 

Trump voters and Democratic voters live, love, 

work, attend church, travel, and are with and 

among one another all day every day. They are, 

like civil war whites, families who disagree on 

fundamental issues and principles but who 

generally get along- we have 150 years of proof of 

them getting along. 

They have softly disagreed on every social issue 

since 1965 with sporadic violence surfacing that 

usually involved Black folk dying in the crossfire. 

Or Mexicans being deported. Or Japanese being 

put in camps. Or Jewish refugees being turned 

away. Or indigenous folk suffering genocide. 

You see? We all die but they do not. Their 

disagreements get us kill but get them elected, 

get us in camps, but get them new laws, get us in 

prison, but get them new neighborhoods. 

Trump’s reelection follows the historic American 

template of whites turning on other whites and 

the rest of us in the crossfire about to suffer 

worse than the main protagonists. 

Shorter: white on white crime is deadly to nonwhite 

people. 

When they’re celebrating ending wokeness or 

rejecting Hollywood or affirmative action or 

political correctness or DEI or college admission 

changes- they are signaling to white people that 

THEY have gone too far… in addressing and/or 

siding with Black and minority folk’s needs. 

Black people and people of color are secondary. 




You’re seeing it across social media: white 

republicans despairing that their white families 

are shunning & rejecting them. 

That’s the impact and their main concern and fear, 

not that a few Black customers from TikTok stop 

buying their homemade crafts. 

Though the issue is deeper, that statement 

essentially captures the diagnosis and 

prescription. I think for this reason we’re in a 

precarious moment for Black folk and POC. 

Because when whites drift too far apart in their 

own homes, we will pay the price if and until they 

can reconcile. 

We not only have US history as proof we also 

have 1,500 years of European history as proof. 

Of course, we’re in the crossfire because we will get 

sick, lose jobs, get shot, get deported, get locked in 

camps, get disappeared and all the things’ tyrants 

do to the least powerful under their control. 

Some whites will suffer as well, of course, 

especially women and the LGBTQI folk. But those 

are acceptable to other whites because they are 

seen as expendable to the cause. 

But you don’t have to go back 1,500 years. Look 

at Europe fracturing even now as one group of 

whites led by Russians are at the throats of other 

whites -Ukraine being the obvious- with white-led 

nations of either side ready to defend one 

another. 

When white nations do this, we have global 

destruction that can last years. 

They are the n-word lovers who deserve the same 

treatment. 

But the discourse will stay lofty and repeated with 

detachment because the media mouthpieces for 

white people are white people who must live, work, 

love, among themselves even as all this is 

happening. That is why big media, Fox, CNN, 

MSNBC, and the networks, seldom call out the 

obvious but stay focused on surface issues and 

reductive analysis the conveniently leave out 

whiteness. 

The same way media unanimously were anti- 

Kamala and pro-rationalize Trump. 

I think Americans understand this. I know social 

media folk do. 

And takes decades to recover-for them. The rest 

of the nation’s sometimes never recover – just 

look at some Asian, African, and South American 

countries that remain at war and/or extremely 

poor because of superpower wars from 50-80 

years ago. 

So, our battle here is part of the broader 

ideological white fighting that’s never ended in 

the white motherland of Europe. 

It’s a dangerous edge we’re on. Only white 

Americans can fix this. 

Do I think they will? Smarter people than me are 

posing and answering that and other questions. 

I tend to be optimistic even without reason to be. 

A popular post on any social media platform: 

“White people can stop this anytime they want” is 

proof it is understood. 

I hope the correction comes peacefully, because 

if it doesn’t, we’re gonna be swept into something 

worse than we’ve ever seen. 



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Feature 

APPRECIATING 

TIM WALZ 


I was thinking about Tim Walz being rejected by 

repub/green/independent voters. I'm really 

disappointed, angry, about why so few post 

election think pieces were written about him. 

Kamala is a massive personality who drives news 

cycles but something is off about Tim being 

ignored. 

Kamala was thee global story for 100 days, and 

that was to be expected since she was the 

candidate, target, hero, villain, and every other 

character arc necessitated by her HERstorical 

campaign. She was the American opposite of 

Trump: Female, Black, mixed-race, good marriage 

to Jewish man. 

Successful political career, works well with every 

demographic, smart, loving, ethical, empathic. 

Just like Tim Walz. I wrote another article in this 

month’s magazine about Kamala voters grieving 

over her loss. Especially, but not exclusively, Black 

women. But what about Tim? 

Tim represented the American White Man we 

were told represented the best of America that 

everyone, especially Black people, could and 

should trust. 

He is the white man in the white hat, the father 

on 1950-60's TV. The lovable neighbor, uncle, 

boss, and wise mentor. He is Hugh Downs, the dad 

on Leave it to Beaver. 

We heard so many white people, especially white 

women say of Tim: He is like my dad, or, he is like 

my dad used to be before dear old dad started 

watching Fox news. While I cannot speak to that, I 

can say that Tim is like many of the white 

coworkers and bosses I had in my career. 

Tim is a listener, kind, and easy to talk with - and 

disagree with - without fear of reprisal. I knew 

many men like him - higher ups, peers, direct 

reports - comfortable in who they are, 

comfortable around Black people, unafraid to 

laugh with us, joke with us, and throw it back at 

us. 

Kamala said she chose Tim because she trusted 

her "gut" and she was 100% right. I don't know 

why more white people didn't gravitate to him. He 

was the one who should have brought over more 

white voters, yes? He is a hunter, gun owner, rural, 

farm boy, football lover, cusses, and fits the white 

American dad archetype. 

Tim can be trusted around girls and women. He's 

not predatory, a cheater, an abuser, a liar, a drug 




addict, or failed businessman or father. It may be 

that maga has "Daddy issues" because to choose 

Trump over Tim is shocking (to me). Tim 

represents the good father and white people 

rejected him. 

To be clear, Kamala did not lose because of Tim. 

Kamala lost for various reasons, one of which is 

not enough white voters wanted another kind 

white man who would look after their best 

interests. A man who would see to it that rural 

white voters were always considered. 

Listening to elected democrats, operatives, and big 

media now drone on about Kamala/democrats 

ignoring "rural white males and younger males" 

but failing to mention that Tim Walz was right 

there... versus NY->Florida Trump and wherever 

the hell JD Vance is really from or who he really is. 

Kamala got it right, and yet… 

We deserved to get a man like Tim. I guess when 

the GOP wants a leader that will express their 

anger vs. understand their anger, one who will 

seek revenge vs. seek conflict resolution, and one 

who promises widespread violence vs. widespread 

shared community values.. Trump is what we get. 

It happened in 1980 in rejecting Carter, then 

Mondale in 84, Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and 

Tim this time. (Hillary and Kamala, too, but also 

differently because, women, race, etc). White 

America rejecting nice white people in favor of a 

Trump is crazy and very dangerous for all of us. 

In any case, this is an appreciation article for Tim 

Walz. A good man, father, parter, friend, Governor, 

and VP candidate. The nation blew it by not 

electing Tim. 

He and Kamala would have been among the best 

administrations ever. 

America rejected the man we have been primed 

for all our lives and for much of our history. Tim 

was that man and I am really sad he was tossed 

aside in favor of a man who promises to harm 

everyone, even those who look like Tim and are 

growing up like Tim. Tim deserved better from his 

community. 


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MYRON'S 

HIT OR MISSlist 

HIT 

Black women who doubted white women would finally side with 

women and vote majority for a woman. They were right and 

despite the backlash pre-vote, they stood ten toes down that the 

worst would happen – as it had with the 19th amendment, as it 

did when Hillary ran, and as it had in every election since the Civil 

Rights laws were passed in the 1960’s. 


MISS 

MISS: White women planning a January 

march before while Biden is still in office, to 

protest Trump’s election – the time to march 

was on November 5th at the voting booth 

voting for Kamala. 

HIT 


My books. They are like Pokémon – gotta get 

them all! 

MISS 

White women starting a performative trend to 

wear a blue wristband to show that they 

supported Kamala and Black folk. Black people 

loudly condemned the action as another 

performative act that is too little, too late, and 

insulting, with many saying that time and effort 

is better spent convincing family and friends to 

vote for democracy. 

MISS 

Being Black knowing our elders showed every 

demographic born here and those newly 

arrived, how to effectuate change for one’s own 

community by registering voters, organizing, 

marching, running for local office, then state, 

and national, and maximizing the power of our 

voting strength. 

But no one learned, as we see all the other 

community’s spit in our faces, disrespect our 

history and our elders, downplay our success, 

and then demand we support them in going 

against our own self interests. 

Then we see you vote in Trump. 

HIT 

The Jewish community voted 86% for Kamala. 

As always, Jewish Americans stood with Black 

folk and overwhelmingly supported who we 

supported for President. 

MISS 

More than 50% of Muslims voted for Stein or 

Trump. The community abandoned democrats, 

worked to suppress votes, and pushed anti- 

American and anti-Blackness throughout the 

election and proved that they are maga. Now, 

they are afraid of being deported, profiled, and 

scared of what will happen to Gaza. Congrats, 

you got what you wanted. 

MISS 

Now we know why Black Lives DID NOT Matter to 

them. The lives of their own wives, mistresses, 

daughters, mothers, and democrats in their 

family’s lives don’t even matter to them. 

This current backlash full effect will be known 

over coming years 

MISS 

White voters keep us at the bottom of this 

hierarchy. And as we've seen with two examples – 

the backlash to the Civil War, Civil Rights 

movement, President Obama’s election, and now 

with Vice President Harris- moving out of the 

bottom and middle it to the rarest of rare-VP or 

Pres-results in devastating backlash and directed 

harm to us AND the rest of America 

MISS 

It’s so odd that folk descended from the *actual 

working class, i.e. enslaved folk, who fought like 

hell to get any jobs and who today have a 

population that is *mostly working class... must 

listen to Bernie, big media, and so-called 

democratic strategists only see white men as 

working class. 



Myron's 

HOT TAKE 

#1 

One of the most dangerous things about 

people like Trump who have no moral anchor 

but who has the world’s most deadly military 

and police force at his disposal… 

Are the people around him who want to please 

him and gain his favor. 

History informs us of the danger people like 

them pose to the rest of us. 

#2 

You're not getting the job, (that went to 

unqualified felon) but there's another (low 

level) job you can apply for, and maybe the 

same people who turned you down for this 

one (like me) will hire you down for that one 

(they won't)." 

Black folk hear this same shit at work every 

day. 

#3 

Should have arrested him for January 6th. All the 

Merrick Garland backers who told us to trust the 

process, justice is slow, the institutions are strong, 

and Jack Smith is methodical, and so on. I’m sorry 

but y’all have been proven wrong. Devastatingly 

wrong. 

#4 

All generations of Black voters went majority 

for Harris/Walz. 

Decades of domestic and foreign attacks on our 

communities, and now from social media 

owners, have flooded us with propaganda, and 

this election saw Russia and Poland cause 67 

bomb threats in Black voting locations. Foreign 

election interference and most of the media 

just shrugged. 

@JohnathanPerk 

said “Black folk are the patriots white people 

think they are” 

Media ignores that but I’m proud of us. We are 

the only community that can say that. 


Black Hierarchy of Political Needs 

(what America will allow) 

.1% 

ELECTED PRESIDENT 

CHOSEN/ELECTED VP 

.9% 

LONGSHOT PRESIDENTIAL RUN 

WIN SENATE FROM BLUE STATE 

99% 

REP FROM MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICT 

WIN STATE OFFICE 

WIN IN MAJORITY BLACK CITY 

SUPPRESSION / GERRYMANDER 

RIGHT TO VOTE 

White voters keep us at the bottom of this hierarchy. And as we've seen with now four examples the 

backlash will be harsh. 

Wanting emancipation = Civil War 

“Winning” Civil War = 100+ years of Jim Crow, segregation, lack of jobs, schools’ infrastructure, KKK. 

Civil Rights movement = Police brutality, ghettos, war on drugs, underfunded schools, redlining, 

gerrymandering, voter suppression, Christian nationalism/moral majority, Ronald Reagan. 

President Obama’s election = Trump, Jan 6th, Maga, Proud Boys, Qnon, YouTube, Twitter, Truth Social. 

Vice President Harris ascendancy = Trump 2, rollback of everything related to Black progress, ending 

Department of Education, ending Obamacare, raising taxes. 

- moving out of the bottom and middle it to the rarest of rare-VP or Pres-results in devastating 

backlash and directed harm to us AND the rest of America. 



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challenging life occurrences, including the suicide of the author’s brother, Iverson; divorce; and war 

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