Try Walking a Mile in Their Shoes

 In 1961 a groundbreaking book titled Black Like Me was written by a white man who posed as a black man in America's Deep South.

John Howard Griffin recounted his journeys in a quest for social justice in the United States back in a time when racism was rampant in this country. 

The battle for civil rights was in its infancy as black leaders risked their lives in pursuit of equality and justice.

Flash forward to June 2025.

If your brown, it's not safe to walk around in public anywhere in America today. The majority of immigrants deported are not criminals. The data (when you can pin it down) clearly shows a purge of brown-skinned people in our society. Innocents are kidnapped by masked men with automatic weapons who treat them like criminals without rights. 

Concentration camps are springing up like poisonous toadstools. 

For example, there's the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in the middle of the Florida Everglades. 

Trump and his MAGA morons toured the facility - rows of cages - and joked about escapees trying to outswim alligators. 

It was one of those moments when you could clearly see their lack of humanity.

Unwarranted ICE attacks against people is a daily experience thanks to Trump and his minions like Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan.

 I would really like to see this group of haters transformed into brown skinned people and tossed out into the streets at the mercy of ICE goons wherever they try to hide. Can you imagine what a wakeup call that would be for the MAGA bigots?

What I really want to see - oh, please, please - is Trump with brown skin (not his usual orange) as a common citizen and not the president of the United States. 

It would be good for him to walk many miles in a Hispanic's shoes. Maybe as a brown man he'd learn a new prospective on life and even some traits like empathy.

I doubt it though.

Trump is a generational criminal who has installed a cadre of loyalists that have diligently gone about destroying our democratic republic and turning America into an authoritarian state in six short months.

As it Stands, if there is such a thing as karma (and I sincerely hope there is) when Trump dies, he'll get reborn as a Mexican woman.

Rampant Hate in America - Is There a Cure?

                   We've become a nation of haters.

It's too complicated to go into all of the reasons why. We know Trump has cultivated haters like a gardener in hell. But what led us to this precarious state of affairs?

For some context let's turn the date back to 2018 when an investigation examining intolerance, racism and hate crimes was conducted at the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

The project was called "Hate in America" and was sponsored by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multimedia reporting project produced by the nation's top journalism students.

What they found was an increase in those targeted in hate crimes by a surge of white supremacist and others who seek to victimize people. No surprise that it was Trump's first regime stirring the pot of hate nationally at the time.

The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 835 antigovernment groups and 595 hate groups, totaling 1,430 hate and extremist groups in America last September. The FBI also released hate crimes data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program as reported by law enforcement agencies across the country.

The data was horrifying. Those agencies reported 11,862 hate crime incidents involving 13,839 offenses. 

I wouldn't be surprised if the current Trump regime does away with hate crime reporting. After all, just look at how many criminals (haters all) he's pardoned in the last six months.

The purveyors of hate today have discovered it's a good way to sell hateful merchandise and capitalize on their message.

Is there a cure for stopping the spread of hate like wildfires? 

If there is I haven't heard of it. 

The politics of hate are too firmly embedded in our government and society. 

As it Stands everybody hates somebody these days. I hate Trump and his minions for actively destroying our democracy and creating an authoritarian state with him as the supreme dictator.