Hard to believe, but One-Hundred and Twenty-Two years ago, the ‘Roaring Twenties’ began! It was a decade from which fables, foibles, fantasy, all colluded, and via movies, television shows, Broadway Plays, and novels, have Americans of all backgrounds, found themselves mesmerized, recounting a mysterious and magical moment of AMERICANA! 2022! Already in the second year of the Twenties, (a Hundred and Two years later), and as I see it, this particular decade might be referenced as the ‘RACIST TWENTIES’!
How far we as a nation HAVE NOT GROWN! Strides, hard-fought, to attain, blood sweat, and tears, are seemingly like the autumn leaves, brown, stale, and dead, easily abandoned and discarded when the wind of HATE huff, puffs and blows hard at FREEDOMS and JUSTICE.
The ‘Roaring Twenties, was all about decadence we are told, delighting in the pleasures of jazz, self-expression, changing the norm, a carefree, cavalier attitude enjoying the pleasures of NOT THE NORM, but establishing a new NORMAL. The ‘Racist Twenties’, for me has taken such an abrupt about-face, from a decade ago, as to cause WHIPLASH, injury to the soul, and denial of any kind of consciousness! From Don’t Say Gay---Criminal laws against abortion---Voter Restrictions---Anti SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) and arduous action to deny Critical Race Theory, this nation, MY COUNTRY, has begun to traverse a path dark, dank, and dangerous!
