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Keep out of the reach of children. 4 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 5 Volume 26, Issue Number 12 November 16-22, 2016 COVER ART Design by TRACIE LOUCK WE SAW YOU America, welcome to your White Supremacist Patriarchy … page 7 FEATURE How to defeat the plot against America … page 9 WEED Legal weed and Trump … page 17 SAVAGE LOVE “Fuck this. 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You woke up in the same White Su- fice because the majority of white American premacist Patriarchy that you’ve been waking voters chose to elect violent White Suprema- up to your entire life. Know that this is why our cist Patriarchy into office. country is the way it is. This is why our black This has been building from the moment men are in prison. This is why we have a gen- Barack Obama was elected to the presidency der wage gap. This is why our Native Ameri- eight years ago. That was when the White can brothers and sisters are currently being Supremacist Patriarchy realized that it was pepper-sprayed and attacked by dogs for try- losing a very important war. Equal marriage ing to protect our environment. This is why rights, Black Lives Matter, and then a female our women are being raped at a rate of one in presidential candidate—everything that the five. This is why white households have 12 times White Supremacist Patriarchy relies upon for the wealth of black households and 10 times the its core identity has been under attack. And wealth of Hispanic households. Because we live we have been gaining ground at lightning-fast in a country that is so scared of change that it speed, leaving White Supremacist Patriarchy would elect Donald Trump for president. And demoralized, bitter, and afraid. we’ve always lived in that country. After the Civil War, after the South lost, a So now it’s out in the open. Now there is no lot of effort was made to rebuild a new South. denying that we live in a White Supremacist A South that could live in a new post-slavery Patriarchy that the majority of white people world. A South where the real power no lon- in just about every demographic in America ger rested with those who owned other hu- voted for. Now we know that the problem isn’t man beings. The reliance on the slave econo- personal preference, it is not the economy, it my had already been hurting the South—the is not a lack of education. Now we know that world had already begun to move past it— there is no middle ground. Now we know that and there were hopes that this reconstruction it is our very liberation that is the threat. So would resurrect the Southern economy and we can’t give up. We must fight, we must con- structure a new modern society. tinue the progress that has made the majority The ability to own slaves was more than of white America so scared, and we must fight just an economic reality. To many in the for that progress harder than ever before. Be- South, it was an identity—an identity of supe- cause there is only freedom or oppression— riority and power. It was a birthright to wake and now is a time for each of us to decide up knowing that you were not black, you were which of the two we will define ourselves by. ■ not a slave, you were more. You inherited your slaves and your superiority like your father and his father before him. And the To submit an unsigned confession or accusation, send an South would rather burn itself down before e-mail to [email protected]. Please remember it let that go. And what followed was a period to change the names of the innocent and guilty. of terror that left black Americans forever scarred and the South forever left behind. But it wasn’t only the South that relied GEORGE PFROMM II upon the oppression of others for its identity. The majority of white America has relied upon its identity of powerful, straight, Chris- tian whiteness since this country’s murder- ous inception. The majority of white males in America, Welcome to Your America have been born expecting to be at the top of that hierarchy. But the rest of the White Supremacist Patriarchy country did not lose the Civil War. The rest of the country was not plunged into an immedi- BY IJEOMA OLUO ate identity crisis at the end of the 19th cen- STEVEN WEISSMAN tury. And as long as the South was distracting ust recently, I was saying that we should be we did not avoid that tragedy. We did not even everyone with a sustained and very violent WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? Jlooking at the post-reconstruction South swerve. We stayed on that road that we paved fit, the rest of white America was safe in their The majority of Trump voters are what in order to understand what has been happen- hundreds of years ago and we gunned it. quiet positions of power. the pundits call silent Trump support- ing with Trump voters. But when I wrote those And here we are. Welcome to your White But progress came for the North even- ers. I could write the obvious—that they words, I was writing them with more than a Supremacist Patriarchy. tually. Equality came for the rest of white weren’t particularly silent the other little hope that when we got together to dis- There will be a lot of hand-wringing and America, and white America has respond- night—but that would devalue what hap- cuss this, it would be with a sense of relief at excuse-giving and scapegoating in the upcom- ed with the same fear and hatred that the pened here.