Was 11/22/63 the Day America Started to Go Downhill?
Or just the day we began to see behind the curtain?
I love my husband.
The other day he said, “I knew as soon as they killed Kennedy in broad daylight and got away with it, the U.S. as we knew it came to an end.”
He meant that dark forces could kill the most powerful man in the world and get away with it. He meant that everything he’d grown up believing about America was a lie.
Before this, I’d never questioned the common belief that the U.S. took a dark turn on November 22, 1963. I’d never questioned the common thought that things in the U.S. were good before that terrible day, that Jack Kennedy was a great leader, and that his assassination sent the nation into terrible downward spiral.
Then it hit me like a thunderbolt. The same way Black Americans reacted upon being told racism and oppression began with Donald J. Trump and would end if he was electorally defeated.
He meant that dark forces could kill the most powerful man in the world and get away with it. He meant that everything he’d grown up believing about America was a lie.
