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You Made Your Bed, America!

Shirley Jones Luke
3 min readNov 12, 2024

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Now, lay in it!

Photo Source: PBS

It has been exactly one week since Trump was reelected as President of the United States. Kamala Harris made a valiant effort, and many of us felt she would ride the wave of excitement into the Oval Office.

But we were wrong.

Since the election, Trump supporters have been obnoxious in celebrating Trump’s return to power. All across social media, Trump supporters have been boastful and rude. Many of them have become downright dangerous. They feel that their racism can be openly displayed without any consequences.

But it's their violence that has us worried.

  1. Several buildings were damaged in a suspicious fire at an HBCU in Tennessee.
  2. Thousands of Black students received a text message stating that a “brown van driven by executive slaves would pick them up to transport them to a plantation.”
  3. Trump’s newly appointed “Border Czar” was interviewed, stating he had no issue sending entire families across the border into Mexico regardless of their citizenship status. This means that American citizens could be deported along with their immigrant relatives.
  4. Trump has declared that he will dismantle the Department of Education and return education policy to the states. However, any state that teaches racial…

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Shirley Jones Luke
Shirley Jones Luke

Written by Shirley Jones Luke

Shirley is a writer. Ms. Luke enjoys books, fashion and travel. She is working on her second poetry manuscript, a collection of essays, and a fiction novel.

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