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!

B Kean
4 min readOct 8, 2024

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Courtesy of LA Times

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…

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B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.