In 2017, after the first Trump election, I said, “We’re all niggas now!” As we enter the Trump 2.0 era, my point is clearer than ever: The United States has turned its invasive tactics inward, targeting its own citizens. ICE, once focused on immigrants, now acts everywhere to impose ‘order.’ This results from 240 years of the U.S. practicing these interventions abroad in places like Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. Now, these aggressive tactics affect everyone—no one is immune: you get pepper-sprayed, you get pepper-sprayed, everyone gets pepper-sprayed!
White people in 2026 are shocked and say, “I can’t believe this is happening in our country.” The nation is in an uproar at the wrongful murder of two white people, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, at the hands of Trump’s stormtroopers, called ICE. Then, ICE agents, with the support of the executive branch, called those murdered individuals “troublemakers” and “threats”. Even though an off-duty ICE agent murdered a black man in Los Angeles at the start of the year. His family is still seeking justice, but the media is silent on this heinous act. Imagine what is happening to the countless black and brown people locked away in government detention centers, behind closed doors. The horrors may be unspeakable.
The United States has always been a police state ever since the first slave patrol banded together to catch runaway slaves. Shero Harriet Tubman stuck it to the Confederates during the Civil War as a Union spy. She was such an O.G. that she led a raid that freed 700 enslaved people. Nowadays, authorities would not declare a national hero a person who freed 700 migrants illegally held in detention centers during a daring raid. Instead, Border Patrol and ICE agents would shoot them 500 times and claim they feared for their lives.
In 2026, the year of our Lord and Savior, W.E.B. Ya Boy, white folks and non-black people of color are finding out what black people have been trying to tell people for centuries. They’ll treat you like criminals, too, for just existing. Well, now ICE will shoot you and call you a “domestic terrorist.”
Now, liberals are like ‘federal agents’ are murdering citizens without consequence at the behest of their dear leader. Things like this only happen in China, Russia, Cuba, or Iran. Nope, crushing popular dissent is as American as apple pie, Botox, and internet porn.
We, black folks, tried to warn y’all. For about four hundred years, the United States was full of it. It wasn’t the world’s greatest democracy; it was the world’s greatest political hypocrisy. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass called it out during his Fourth of You Lie speech. Scholar W. E. B. DuBois spent a lifetime criticizing the U.S. political system and the treatment of its black citizens. Civil Rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King once stated that he racially integrated his people into a burning house. Yes, the United States is a house that’s burning down to its foundation and leaving nothing but ash and dust. Black Lives Matter activists have recently called for both “Defunding the Police” and “Abolishing ICE.” These rallying cries were met with shame and scorn from the elites and their crony political puppets like former President Barack Obama, and South Carolina Representative Jim Coonburn, oops, I mean Clyburn!
As the legendary, but problematic comic legend Paul Mooney once said, “Everybody wants to be a nigga, and nobody wants to be a nigga.” I can tell you from experience as a forty-plus-year-old black dude, it ain’t all fun and games, especially when you’ve got to worry about cops taking you off the census for a minor infraction or just driving while black. Black joy arises from the black struggle. We have to have a sense of humor because our history has been one of inhumane suffering and treatment at the hands of an oppressive and racist system. It’s also one of triumph and joy. We, black people, are the ultimate survivors!
Now, we can’t save y’all or save America. Hell, we got too many black folks that are lost in the white supremacy sauce, like Nikki Minaj, Kanye West’s crazy coon ass, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Plus, the United States assassinated all our black heroes who tried to make the United States live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all. Shout out to Brotha Malcolm X, Dr. King, and the Black Panther Party!
Being black isn’t just about dancing, creating slang that white suburban Zoomers on TikTok will misinterpret and call Gen Z slang, or being able to say Nigga, without gettin’ slapped in the face. In Trump’s America, we’re all niggas now, but black folks have known that way before the Trump 2.0 era. Nope, if you ain’t black you can’t say the N-word. However, no matter your colored I’m sure ICE will have no problem beating you like Rodney King if they think you’re outta line.
Yes, the Trump 2.0 era is the United States with its mask fully off. Now, all citizens see the nation for what it truly is: a racist, autocratic police state run by wealthy, weirdo, warmongering, greedy pedophiles. Now, do we owe apologies to the people who talked about the Illuminati conspiracy theory? We were wrong, and apparently, y’all were right. In the United States, when you stand up against power, the cops can shoot you and call you a domestic terrorist. Sounds like the same thing that the FBI and local police did to countless members of the Black Panther Party, like Chicago legend Fred Hampton. In closing, God bless America, my niggas!
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