Wishing It All Away

 MUCH TO THE PROBABLY CHAGRIN of much of America's white Christian conservative white supremacist community, the Black Lives Matter movement (which in my humble opinion should be renamed "Black Lives Matter Too") has trickled down into and permeated small town America, even in the deep south, in a small town in which I attended several BLM protests. One of them consisted of about fifty high school girls, whit,e Christian, and yours truly. I loved it, they loved it> I was their token "little old man". In a similar small town nearby, the mayor ran out of patience. To paraphrase "I wish all them folks comin' down here a politickin' would just pack up and go on back home, and leave us alone." I'm just guessing he was referring not some traveling troupe of twenty twenty Trumpers, but rather, to BLM people, perhaps even African-American ones. What were his plans for the local BLM people, black and white? After all, they are already home, unless the mayor wanted them in quarantine. Should all MAGA people self isolate also? When an elected official doesn't specify, questions arise. The mayor might have served his self expression better by simply clearly stating that he wanted everyone associated with Black Lives Matter to leave town, without letting the door touch tush.What his honor wanted, it seems, was to live in a Black Lives Matter free bubble, and he wanted it to be his own town, for his convenience. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all mayor, free to pick and choose what we wanted to wish away, and free to wish it all away? In my bubble town of the mind, I would immediately wish away Trump and all his supporters, whom I, frankly, detest. Next, I'd get rid of the white right wing evangelical Christians, because after several decades of listening to them tell me that I'm going to Hades in a hand basket if I do not embrace their religious views, I'm wishing for different treatment. My dearly departed mother had a trick which makes me laugh to this day. Whenever religious propagandists, Jehovah's Witnesses or whomever, would knock on her door, she'd answer, and, after they introduced themselves, tell them that "I'm Catholic, and I'll pray for you at mass". She wasn't, of course, so she didn't, but they didn't know that. I never had the heart to remind her that it would have been easier for her to simply not answer the door, but, where's the fun in that? Nor do I have the heart to suggest to the mayor that while the Black Lives Mater people are out in the streets, they won't be there long, and all he has to do is ignore them, and they will, at length, go away.