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The Butterscotch Babies Panic!

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column

       If you want to get to the underlying glue that is keeping Donald Trump’s “deplorables” in absolute fear and panic of a future without The Donald in their lives, it is the yet to be broadcasted story of: THE BUTTERSCOTCH BABIES!

       One of stories of why Donald Trump’s desperate political gasps to keep the White House resounds with his voters is that they have a deep primordial fear of becoming a minority ethnic group by the year 2042.
 


Lafe Tolliver, Esq

        They see in the personality of their cult leader, Donald Trump, their idea of a white savior who will keep the “brown hordes” at bay and allow them continued political and economic hegemony over those “others.”

     Trump, as a white nationalist, senses this and nurses their fear that one day, white America will wake up in a land not known to them but inhabited by more and more people of color.

      For Trump’s anxious base, that is a cause for alarm and irrational behavior, thinking that they may be on the short end of the stick as it comes to fairness and equality before the law.

     These are two non-negotiable criteria of an American democracy which for so many centuries, were denied by white people to black and brown people.    

      If the bean counters at the Census Bureau in the national government are counting correctly, by the year 2042, brown and black people (including Latinos and Native Americans), will, numbers wise, rule the roost.

      If you are a white person in America who has irrational racial fears and phobias of all things black and brown, that new America may give you pause for concern and what better time than now to express those concerns to the politicos who can stem the tide of this racial tsunami?

      Trump knows that many in white America are not willing to give up their perks and privileges and share the pie with others based on their corrupted thinking that they worked for their economic goodies, fair and square; and they are willing to march to a far-right Republican ideology in order to maintain the status quo.

       Ever since white America created in 1619 the time bomb known as chattel slavery, the colorization of America has been slowly migrating towards a population that reflects a lower birth rate for white Americans and a higher birth rate for people of color.

        Now that population growth has morphed into a demonizing of people of color by white politicos who see advantages in reminding their base via the use of “dog whistle” politics that they better hold the line at immigration and racial inclusion; and if not, the Butterscotch Babies are on the move!

       And now… enter stage right: The Butterscotch Babies!

These are the babies of interracial marriages and liaisons and I use the term, “Butterscotch Babies”, to indicate their light caramel skin color and which babies mark the cornerstone of the racial fears of the white population that their daughters or sons will bring home a Butterscotch Baby and thereby hastening the demise of the white majority population.

       White America has had a long and ugly history of its treatment of those who are born of the union of a white person and a person of color. Hollywood pandered to this racial fascination with movies such as Pinky and Imitation of Life.

        Racial coding in this country has not retreated from the recesses of our collective consciousness. Spike Lee’s two movies, Jungle Fever and School Daze revealed embarrassing secrets of the unspoken racial codes that influenced Black Greek fraternity life, and America’s fascination with racial dating.

       Why, we even had state laws that said that if you violated the racial taboo of interracial dating or marriage, your life would be in danger of having a “necktie” party sponsored by outraged parents or mobs, or you being ran out of town with a threat that your return could be your last.

        But with racial coding not as explicit as before (it was permissible for Mr. Charlie to have his way with black women and to do so without any legal penalty or threat of physical harm), more and more people are engaged in interracial couplings so that the march of the Butterscotch Babies is on the move!

        When Sidney Poitier starred in the groundbreaking movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, white folks went apoplectic because they saw their dreams and hopes of their daughters marrying white and marrying right, being challenged.

     The Butterscotch Babies are marching in lockstep because their numbers are gaining momentum; and they see themselves as the front line to knock down the last of the remaining racial barriers in employment, housing and equal justice under law.

     The Butterscotch Babies will take the baton of the civil rights era and with confidence, attack anyone who will dare to mock them or deny them equal privileges under law.

     Those Butterscotch Babies will one day sit in legislatures, on courts and will populate police departments and mayor offices and will control the levers of economic power.

      No, Donald Trump and his “deplorables” will not win the fight against these Butterscotch Babies and their offspring because the numbers show that the eventual browning of America is a foregone conclusion.

      Butterscotch Babies…. march on!

 

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com

       

 
   
   


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