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    America Re-elects ‘King Gorge III’’

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    In a stunning upset, Donald J. Trump has once again made America hate again, with a resurgence as nasty and meteoric as the reuse of the R-word.  A country once founded on the principles of escaping religious and political tyranny has now fully transformed itself into the villain it fought against in the movies. 

    America has now become a bigger international embarrassment than when the United States took home the bronze in men’s basketball in 2004.

    Once the land of “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” is now the country that blames its hard times on the people who seek shelter and not the people who control the rent on those shelters.  

    In the last 24 hours, the American Dream has once again manifested itself into an American nightmare, but this time with much more fuel to the fire. A country whose greatest f*ckups have been white men was too afraid to deviate from its normal path of destruction and elect the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Instead, it elected a man who was married to two immigrants, one who was here illegally at one point, and his running mate whose wife’s heritage is rarely spoken about. The country that once welcomed people with open arms is now arming itself with hate and derision. A prosecuting attorney lost the election to a 34-time convicted felon because racism is more important than quality of life, and being alt-right is more important than doing the right thing..

    Americans have long had the privilege of being shielded from great destruction compared to other countries.  With the exception of the Great Depression, the United States, save marginalized groups, has not known serious misfortune in quite some time. Other than Pearl Harbor (which was known about before the attack), there has only been one other attack on U.S. soil, and that was Sept.11.

    Now, with the despotic trigger-happy tyrant once again at the helm, no second-term worries to hold him back, a Republican-backed Congress and a conservative Supreme Court, diplomacy does not have to be a thing for diplomats. Project 2025 will be well underway, and those same people who were afraid of an immigrant in another state taking their job will be in for the rudest awakening when their CEO automates or outsources their job.

    Those of us who can afford groceries will have to worry about the quality of food due to the lack of regulations and disbanding of the FDA. If you get sick from your food, good luck getting medical care with stripped healthcare. The land of the free is now the land of the mandated but not regulated. We have become everything we were taught to hate in history books, and our children will not even have access to enough history books to know that.  A country that once fought fascism, or at least told us it did, is now proudly rubbing elbows with Nazis. Racism has done a great job of hiding behind Christianity because abortion was sold as the greatest evil, an evil that could only be defeated by electing someone who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women.

    Our economy is now in the hands of someone who has been convicted of fraud. Our children’s education is in the hands of someone who looked up at the sun during a solar eclipse. Our daughters’ futures are in the hands of someone who wants to use those same hands to grab them by their pussies. Our sons’ lives are in the hands of someone who wants to give police officers total immunity.

    America has become the thing she swore she would never be. America failed the open notes test, and every class, except the rich, will be left behind. 

    Kyla Jenée Lacey is an accomplished third-person bio composer. Her spoken word has garnered tens of millions of views, and has been showcased on Pop Sugar, Write About Now, Buzzfeed, Harper’s Bizarre, Diet Prada, featured on the Tamron Hall show, and Laura Ingraham from Fox News called her work, “Anti-racist propaganda.”. She has performed spoken word at over 300 colleges in over 40 states. Kyla has been a finalist in the largest regional poetry slam in the country, no less than five times, and was nominated as Campus Activities Magazine Female Performer of the Year. Her work has been acknowledged by several Grammy-winning artists. Her poetry has been viewed over 50 million times and even used on protest billboards in multiple countries. She has written for large publications such as The Huffington Post, BET.com, and the Root Magazine and is the author of "Hickory Dickory Dock, I Do Not Want Your C*ck!!!," a book of tongue-in-cheek poems, about patriarchy....for manchildren.

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