Fellow pedes, I just need to vent. After everything being forced to shut down for 3 months and constant WuFlu is going to get you, and then people wanting to go back to work being mocked, and then rioters and the creatures being allowed to freely commandeer 6 blocks of a city with no repercussions, and now this whole BLM-Antifa-all-white-people-are-racist-corporations-signaling thing I feel when is it going to be enough already?!

I feel like we spent the first 5 months of the year being instilled with fear over an unseen entity of biblical proportions. It literally went from 0-100 overnight. At first I really didn't know what to think, we had never reacted this way to any other illness in my lifetime (I'm in my mid 50s) so there must really be something going on. Now I feel like we were played. virtually everyone had their lives turned upside down to some degree, whether it was missing milestone events (graduations etc) or not being able to be with family when they needed it most, or losing jobs we all were impacted in some way. Then George Floyd was murdered. All of a sudden we saw that "social distancing" and shut downs might not have really been necessary, after the damage of that was already done. To complete the damage from the shut down, businesses were destroyed physically in case the economic destruction wasn't enough.

Don't miss understand me, regardless of George Floyd's history I do believe the cops were wrong in that specific situation, and the cop that had him pinned had several complaints. So the bigger issue was why was that cop not previously disciplined. However, the week long funeral and memorial, the endless riots, and this out of control virtue signaling by corporate America is really getting on my nerves.

Canceling COPS and Live PD? Banning Gone with the Wind? Legos afraid to market police sets? And every company website I visit has a big banner about how they don't support racism.... well duh. No one does. We have laws to defend against it that have been in effect for decades. I'm not an idiot, I know that sadly there are people out there who still live in the dark ages and have racist beliefs but I believe they are a minority - even though the media and left want us to believe they are everywhere (and are Trump supporters).

I don't know anyone or would ever associate with anyone that believes a group of people deserve less because of their ethnicity. Everyone is an equal member of the human race and entitled to the same treatment and respect.

I can't help but feel like this is covertly aimed at Trump and Trump supporters because of this leftist/demorat narrative that has been in play for the last 5 years, that Trump is racist (when he is not a russian asset) and everyone who supports him is a racist. Take Juneteenth, I had never heard of it until I moved to Texas. I came from the northeast in 1990 and it was not a thing there or at least that I was aware of. It seems like it has suddenly become national since Trump was going to have his rally on the 19th and the left lost their minds, as if he was somehow planning an anti rally or something.....

It just feels like if we are not in a minority group we are automatically guilty and need to be told we are horrible, except white people on the left which somehow magically makes them exempt from being racist. (Which would explain why a leftist white person can call a conservative black person an uncle tom and it's not called out for what it is: racism.)

I really feel like the left has been beating the hell out of all of us.

Sorry its a long post....