BY: Vincent L. Hall
Gotcha, didn’t I? I knew that when I put ‘White’ and ‘Granddad’ in the same sentence, you would come running. Quit Playin’! I got summin’ tu say!
The trials, tribulations, and travesties of Donald Trump have upset the body politic, sullied our norms, and constrained the Constitution. But one of the outcomes that few realize is the change in White men that has become too obvious to hide.
What am I talking about? The White man of today is not nearly as fiercely independent or faithfully patriotic as the White men my Papa, Ed Hall, taught me about. In fact, my own life experiences have me awestruck at Trump, MAGA, and the silent majority he has put in check.
Chris Rock, in his 2018 Netflix standup, was as funny as he was prophetic.
“That’s how Trump became president,” Rock says. “We got rid of bullies. A real bully showed up, and nobody knew how to handle him. Trump’s time in office will ultimately “work out” because it will lead to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
“Bush was so bad, he gave us Obama. You forget that s—, don’t you? Bush was so bad that people said, ‘Hey, maybe this black guy has the answers.’ I think people forget George Bush’s contributions to black history … Trump is so bad he’s going to give us Jesus.”
Unfortunately, this strange new persona we see in the White male fragility we are watching believes that Trump is actually the return of Jesus. Trump never denies that he is Jesus, because he isn’t historically apt enough to know that Jesus is Black. He would rather die than be one of “The Blacks!”
In Papa’s day, there was no self-respecting White man who would allow Trump or anyone to disparage a man like the late war hero John McCain. Nothing in that era of White man was more sacrosanct or vile than to scourge a veteran who had all but been dismembered for his sense of valor and duty.
Ed Hall lived in a time and place where a White woman could be publicly humiliated, much less violated. Whole posse’s of White nationalists hung Negroes for less and protected the White woman by aegis, sword, and shield.
When Ted Cruz let Trump double down on his wife’s “imperfections,” I knew that something had gone awry in “Whitmanstown,” USA. Ted ain’t White, but them wannabe Whites are always the worst. Just ask Injustice Clearance Thomas. He works harder to be White than any Klansman you can find to prove his allegiance to their sovereignty.
Ed Hall could never have imagined Trump amassing millions who are willing to relinquish their authority for the sake of a movement that is non-American and so scathingly undemocratic.
As a lifelong political junkie, I can’t imagine the great White fathers that I watched and admired risking their reputations and subrogating their rights to a wannabe dictator. Men like LBJ, John Tower, Tip O’Neill, the Bushes, or the Kennedys. The fact that he has RFK Jr. in his stall probably aggrieves every Kennedy who has passed through those pearly white gates that heaven has been described to have.
Ed Hall’s White men wanted liberty or death, would rather fight than switch, and would choose freedom over money, houses, and land. The White men who follow, are afraid of, or glorify Donald Trump are not my granddaddy’s White man. They weren’t perfect either, but at least they made sense!
A long-time Texas Metro News columnist, Dallas native Vincent L. Hall is an author, writer, award-winning writer, and a lifelong Drapetomaniac.
