I am a black woman and I live in a country where the president does not disavow racism. Instead, it is 2017 and white supremacists no longer feel the need to wear hoods to hide their racism and anti-Semitism. Her presidency was a certainty in my mind and in my heart. I was, like so many of us, wildly overconfident about her chances. And I keep thinking about how different things would be if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. Bodies flying.įor the past week, I have seen hate thriving in plain sight. A slate-gray car barreling into people standing up to racism. Nazi flags, Confederate flags, American flags, “Make America Great Again” hats. Angry white men playing soldier, heavily armed in public. Angry white men, arms outstretched in the Nazi salute. Angry white men holding tiki torches and shouting their throats raw chanting “blood and soil,” spittle hanging from their lips.
