The federal workforce is under attack because of racism!
Racism drives this country
Hiii, I’m thinking about starting a magazine/zine with my poetry, political rants, and art. Today I’m sharing my feelings about the bro-presidency attacking the federal workforce. Onto the news…
News that made me feel like racists enjoy watching Black people suffer
When Elon Musk and his subject Donald Trump started attacking the federal workforce, my first gut feeling was they are doing this because the federal workforce is Blacker than the private sector. I didn't have any evidence of the federal workforce employing proportionately more Black people compared to the private sector other than my two eyes. I’ve worked in the private sector and Black people are as rare in my field as vegan pizza slices in New York City. Why are there only three places where I can get a decently priced vegan pizza slice in this city? Why do New York pizzerias hate vegans? On the other hand, I know people who’ve worked in the federal workforce and there is more diversity there than in my private sector jobs.
Turns out my gut feeling about the hatred of Black people driving Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the MAGA crew to hate the government workforce is correct. A significant portion of the Black middle class was a result of federal jobs. To be fair, my general gut feeling about racism is always right. If a Black person walks into a room and they tell you they smell racism, believe them, and burn the place to the ground.
Nothing makes a racist more angry than seeing a Black person thriving, just like nothing makes me happier than seeing a racist lose their job - which happens rarely. Racists usually get promotions for being racist. Elon Musk is the president even though no one voted for him and he was not born in the United States. His only qualification: a steadfast dedication to racism. That man is more dedicated to racism than I’m dedicated to eating dessert for breakfast and I love chocolate cake in the morning!
This country derives pleasure from extracting Black people’s labor while maintaining their oppression and Black people seemingly being less oppressed is unacceptable for the racists. Let’s be clear, leaning on acquiring a federal job to live a decent life because the private sector is extremely racist is not freedom! It’s a slight cushion from the debasement of Blackness. However, Elon and Donald don’t want Black people leaning on anything soft, they want them to suffer.
A significant portion of Black people depending on desirable jobs from a state that has manufactured anti-Blackness is an irony that my brain cannot fully grasp. Blackness in this country was created as a class for bondage. Saidiya Hartman states, “the relations of chattel slavery served to enhance whiteness by racializing rights and entitlements, designating inferior and superior races, and granting whites’ dominion over blacks” in her book Scenes of Subjection.
The creation of a Black middle class through government I’m sure has no other purpose than to decrease the likelihood of Black insurrection much like Nixon used the Black capitalism initiative. This country doesn’t do anything for Black people unless it has to. A country that plunders Black people for profit will never be a safe space for any Black person. Watching these two overcover KKK members destroying the federal workforce because it brings comfort to some Black people in this country should reinforce the message that Black people will never be comfortable as long as the United States and white women who like to say girrrrl as soon as they see a Black woman exist.
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