Nothing more but to clean up the mess

I'm not smart enough or compelling enough with my writing to do much of anything with a blog other than to enjoy writing, which is why I started this in the first place. This is my way of venting my rage because with each day I find myself getting more and more pissed off.  I had so many major concerns when it came to the election of a Black president.  Was the country really ready?  Was the candidate really ready?  If he wins, will this be the turning of the proverbial corner that all of us who are older than 30 and black understand?  Would this be the sign that America is finally ready to put our hideous racist past behind us?  Or would his election flush out every hate filled racist who, prior to this election, was able to hide their hate behind sophistry and fancy logical arguments about how we black people really do need white assistance or better yet, how we have gotten more than our fair share of government support and now it's time for us to stand on our own two feet.  Well, rest assured, we have an answer.
Starting with "I want my country back!" and shuffling past all the wonderful "man child" commentary, witch doctor posters, birth certificate golden showers and more than could be described in this essay, the white hate machine has been working overtime ever since the election. And I suppose what makes me the most angry is that as of today, there is only a flicker of anger from those white people who don't feel this way.  The fact that there is less than a flicker of anger from black folk doesn't surprise me at all, most of us knew to expect this and so we aren't surprised. But we are sad, very sad, and not because of the hell that the first Black president is catching, nope, we are sad because most (if not all) of us have been telling our kids how fucked up things were when we were growing up.  How bad it was having to be the "first one" to go to this school or that academy, or perhaps the first to join this team or this club and how we were hoping so much that our kids wouldn't have to go through that.  How they would be able to live in a world where the racist white population that isn't in South America or South Africa would be so small here in America that they would have no lasting effect on the lives of Black people any more.  Sad because I doubt my great grandchildren will live in an America that isn't filled to the brim with cross burning, lie telling, Fox watching, scared to death of a black man white folk who would rather crash the world's economy than allow a Black president to do the same thing every president has done for the last twenty years.  Sad, just sad.