Tuesday top of mind 11/26/24-it will be okay for THOSE voters

Have you been told that 2025 will actually be okay?

And did that raise your blood pressure?

Like, a lot. You actually saw red.

How can we make people understand that it will be okay FOR THEM?

But, and it is a big but, it will not be okay for millions of Americans.

Women will continue to have our rights degraded.

The LGBTQ+ will be forced back into the closet.

Children will continue to be preyed upon by those they should be able to trust. You know, teachers, preachers, and politicians.

DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives will continue to be deleted. Just today, Walmart announced that it will be dissolving the DEI policies. And it will be stepping back from the strides it made after 2020 and the killing of George Floyd. Even though it promised to have a race equity philanthropic initiative through 2025, it will not renew the initiative that examined the root causes of the gaps that African Americans experience in education, and housing, and banking and criminal justice forums. Sweeping it under the rug, nothing to see here, folks. It will also not use gender and race as a guide to improve diversity in the contracting processes. This means that they won’t have to consider a woman or an African American-owned company. And it will stop participating in the LGBTQ+ annual benchmarking through the Human Rights Campaign.

But they hurried to reassure that they want to have a place for everyone and foster belonging.

Excuse me while I choke on the hypocrisy. Because they never will.

My personal pocketbook protesting remains in place for Walmart and its ilk. They will continue to receive no money from us.

Nothing will change for Walmart, or Lowes, or any of the other companies that have been retracting their DEI statements. But a lot will change for the everyday Americans that shop there because of the prices they can charge because of their shitty policies.

That is the entire point of this post.

Heck, there will be minimal changes in this household. For the husband. Because he is a white, married man.

But for me? I am angry at the prospect of all the rights that people have fought and bled and died for since the Civil Rights movement started disappearing.

You know that somewhere in hell the architects of this abomination are smiling.