It ain’t easy being white
A lot has changed in the time since Barack Obama came into office in 2008. While his presidency wasn’t quite the unmitigated disaster everyone feared, many of his policies had terrible, unintentional consequences that tore at the very fabric of what it means to be an American.
Almost over night, it was something of a crime to be a white person in the United States. Rich white people became scapegoats for financial and economic problems, while poor white people were the primarily discriminators against people of color, immigrants, women, LGBT, and so on.
At the same time, the Obama administration did everything in its power to bolster the rights of these “disenfranchised people” at the expense of the rights of white people. For obvious reasons, it came as no surprise that Obama sought to help the black community. But even then, with a black man in the White House, they did not seem content. Yes, slavery in America was horrible but white people have gone to great lengths to right those wrongs, including giving black people the right to vote as well as affirmative action.
And yet, despite all the progress made, when one police department systematically targets black people or one predominantly black town in Michigan doesn’t have clean drinking water, the black community gets up in arms and claims racism is still a monumental problem. How quickly they forget how far we’ve come.
Perhaps, the most frustrating part of these actions by the Obama administration was that most of them were done as a pathetic publicity stunt. While it’s understandable that Obama would want to assist other black people, his overenthusiastic desire to help the LGBT community, women, and immigrants was little more than a ploy to earn liberal votes. What did Obama know about being gay, or being a woman, or coming from another country?
Our white founding fathers rolled over in their graves as our nation cowered to politically correct agendas of “equality” and “civil rights”. A white person couldn’t go anywhere without being offended or made to feel uncomfortable. White men were left at home alone while their wives went out to pursue fulfilling careers of their own. Gays held hands and kissed in public, leaving parents to awkwardly explain homosexuality to their children. Immigrants took over the bad parts of white communities, killing home values and weakening the America dream in their attempts to escape “persecution” and “make a better life for themselves”.
While these groups were handed out rights like candy on Halloween, successful white lawyers, bankers, and CEO’s were admonished for taking advantage of the same people Obama’s policies were helping. These white leaders worked hard, many overcoming a struggling upper-middle class upbringing to reach positions of power. Then, when these hard working white men wielded their considerable influence for personal gain, the same groups seeking their own “freedom” were quick to cast the first stone. Hypocrisy thy name is Dodd-Frank.
It became the theme of the times; Obama gave an inch and these communities took a foot. It was perilous times for the white way of life.
But in 2016, we struck back. We tipped the scales back into our favor by electing, not just a white President, a but a hard-working, blue-collar white President with white values. A President that, with only a small family loan of $1 million, embodied the American dream of coming from nothing to achieve greatness. Sure, he had some failures - a steak line, travel website, airline, vodka drink, mortgage service, board game, magazine, university, bottled water, sports team, bike races, vitamin pyramid scheme, and radio show- but he overcame that adversity to become the voice of an increasingly marginalized white community.
President Trump understood the histrionics of all of these “movements” unleashed under Obama and the delicate glass house of American values they threatened to shatter.
Trump promised to restore things to the way they were, when a white person could walk down the street or watch Fox News without seeing a riot or a march or a protest. We prayed for the simpler, older times when being a white person wasn’t a crime. Thankfully for white people our prayers have been answered; Trump is returning us to those times.
