I guess I was liberal before the nametag and they've been trying to kill us for a long time now.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

We moved South in 61. I was 7. First question I remember from a neighborhood kid was "are you a yankee or a rebel?" I had to go ask my Mom because I had never heard either words before. She told me that we were from Missouri which was a neutral state. She also went on about the only differences between ourselves and the Black people was melanin.

Shortly after the news reported Dr. King had been shot. Then JFK, then Bobby...Then so many others that never made the National news. And Nam, Kent State...

Fuck. They even killed John Lennon.



The racists are rabid.
And have been for a long time.

Trump has stoked their fires again and they are crawling out of the holes they were once driven in to.