Bruce Springsteen, a Category 5 Hurricane and Racial Realism
Crazy things are happening all around, and something tells me that the ‘gods’ are warning us to wake up before it’s too late!
Many Floridians on the state’s west coast have been through it, some just a couple of weeks ago, as you can see in the image above. My sister’s house was destroyed by the storm surge a couple of years back. She lives in Cape Coral, and yesterday, they were predicting a surge of 12+ feet. Anything over three feet for her means the water floods her house — a 12-foot storm surge engulfs her house. She is shocked, writing in our family chat,“We can’t go through this again.”
They are evacuating with everything they can take. A few months ago, the house was finally rebuilt and made “new.”
A storm that transformed itself from tropical into a category 5 with winds of 180 M.P.H. in hours is barreling toward a nation that is turning itself inside out to justify why electing a fascist, amoral rapist for president would somehow make us better, more peaceful, and more ‘American.’
Donald Trump reminded us how dark — well, “them,” the lunatics who go to his three-hour-long rallies — yesterday in Wisconsin how dark and grotesque his vision of America is. Trump tried…