Clive Gets Woke, Part Ii

“...The leftists that you voted for jacked up the minimum wage, so new workers like me cannot get hired, much less get paid. “And those very same people ignore foreigners who work cheap, they can work, and break the law, But the same can’t be done by me! “And then the proposed solution to this raging dumpster fire is to throw others' money at me until the day that I expire? “They create all these problems, then watch as the city rots, and fools like you vote for ruin out of fear that the checks might stop!” His mother with quite the shocked look, Said,”Don’t talk like no honkey here!” Then raved about slaves and Jim Crow, the same old litanies of fear. Clive said,”Mom, save the conspiracy, that garbarge is hard to endure. And stop using your skin pigment to explain away your failures! “John bought into all this crap, thought his thugging was justified. All it did was leave him lying with a bullet between his eyes. “I’ll not end up some dead banger, or give up what makes a man a man, even if I have to go out and vote for a Republican!” He turned to leave despite her cries, and her endless protestations, he had to go down to City Hall to change his affiliations.