President Donald J. Trump departs after speaking on a year of historic progress and action combating the opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
President Donald J. Trump departs after speaking on a twelvemonth of historic progress and activeness combating the opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House on Wed, October. 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo past Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Call him "The Man" if you like, or "Mr. Bobo," or "Mr. Whitey," only no matter how you draw them (sorry womyn, only male sobriquets in this metaphor), White people, intoxicated by the potable of Donald J. Trump's hateful rhetorical vineyard, are at present stumbling drunkard and overplaying their mitt like a marking in a floating poker game. They are setting themselves up for a big loss.

From so-called "Barbecue Becky" and all her cousins who called police all effectually the country to complain almost Black folks doing routine things, to now this viral video of a group of boys from Kentucky'southward Covington Catholic High Schoolhouse — gleefully surrounding a Native American elderberry; continuing in his face as he drummed; chanting their own faux Indian cheer and "Tomahawk chop" gesture used at some sporting events; while shouting "Build the wall! Build the wall!" and "become dorsum to the reservation" — White people, like these Covington boys like characters from Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding'south dystopian novel, "Lord of The Flies," accept taken this masquerade as well far.

These Covington boys were wearing Trump's ruddy, signature "MAGA (Brand America Great Again)" baseball game caps. Only they are mistaken about their future and their country's futurity: there is no greatness alee for the United States.

Similar their cruel treatment of millions and millions of enslaved Africans over a span of 464 years, White America's genocide against the Native people similar Nathan Phillips from whom this continent was taken past force, are both crimes confronting humanity, and the advantage for such behavior must be punishment, non reward, if the Prophets of Old and their Scriptures are to be believed.

White Dudes (often euphemistically referred to by me every bit "White Boys") have taken to believing Trump's press releases nearly "so much winning"— despite the facts that the authorities remains shutdown now, longer than ever before; the overall economy is headed to the toilet; and the president is a pathological liar who has told an average 15 untruths every day he'southward been in role; and is facing a mountain of legal troubles. They believe him and they are acting like his lies are somehow truthful.

Only it is toward the descendants of their slaves, and their Native hosts, to whom these White Boys are most cruel. Instead of showing gratitude to the people virtually responsible for this country's wealth and greatness, White folks are quick to abuse, rather than praise, their greatest benefactors. They are mistakenly betting "all-in" on whiteness, which will testify to exist a losing hand.

For the nearly twoscore years since the Reagan Revolution, this land has been spending lights-out on weapons of war, and steadily lowering taxation rates for the wealthy, so at that place is less and less money for "the common good."

During the same period the earth saw the Soviet Union bankrupt itself fighting a war it could not win in Afghanistan. Ironically, the U.Due south. has been bogged down in a war in Afghanistan for nearly 18 years, while China (another armed services antagonist) has been slow to waste needless money on its armed forces, while overcoming this country economically. Now, after decades, the Chinese just launched their get-go shipping carrier in 2018. The U.S. war hawks take at least a dozen such warships in its arsenal. Care to venture a guess as to which country is a safer place to live?

Both the Chinese and the Russians accept their own enormous human rights challenges to live with, simply none of their sins arroyo the genocide of a native population, or 400-plus years of the worst slavery known to man, as is the history of this country.

If the White Americans were as smart as they think they are, they would rein in these smug, Brett Kavanaugh-like, Covington Catholic-similar, Donald J. Trump-like instincts among their Caucasian tribe, and attempt to teach those folks out of their caveman mentality into living at peace and in harmony with their neighbors.

Instead, they openly mock, abuse and pass up those who are not white-skinned, in their midst or anywhere on the planet … to their own peril. They declare war on their southern border, never imagining that ane day these Kentucky Cosmic White Boys and all their MAGA allies may one day demand allies from among the dark-skinned folks they treat with such open derision.

As well bad they never learned to treat other people the style they would similar to be treated.

Mr. Bobo and his clan may non realize it withal, simply the paw he's playing in the worldwide, high-stakes poker game may not be as good as he thinks it is.

WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad is as well a poet, and a photojournalist. He is Senior Editor for The Final Call newspaper and he writes a weekly column in The Washington Informer. More by Askia Muhammad