Farida Haque
1 min readSep 21, 2020

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Not in my part of the woods, buddy, which is suburbia in one of the most affluent counties in USA. We are merrily enjoying our American way of life.

An area newsletter to which we turn to to solve first world problems, rarely, if ever, contains concerns which you and I and I’m sure thousands of Americans are soiling our pants about.

It’s all about “ bugs in my kitchen, allegedly ‘suspicious activity’ ( just a random jogger of color perhaps? ), nuisance of beggars around posh shopping malls, ah the horror of dirty humans with hollow eyes, an old lady holding up traffic, what a travesty! a violation of our rights…. You get my drift.

Whole neighborhoods have turned Republican/Trumpian, my white pallies of decades shuffle feet around me and the joy has gone out of swimming in our community pool. Etc etc.

What is critical to note, which many of us tortured souls miss, are two things.

One, most rich white folk who are devotees at Trumps altar, are out and out bigots and fascists.

Two, ALL the people, and it’s a serious majority,who fervently attend Trump rallies, are SERIOUSLY disenfranchised folks, desperate for economic stability. They are caught in credit traps, denied healthcare and education and live from day to day. Did they stop to ponder? Nosirree. Can a billionaire slumlord even tolerate them, except as pawns?’desperate people do desperate things’ was never truer.

Btw, Facebook has blocked my account for verbalizing my concerns. Zuck, naturally, a captain of America’s free markets at work.

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Farida Haque
Farida Haque

Written by Farida Haque

Multimedia artist, writer, poet. “I could not have painted myself happy without painting myself sad first…” faridahaque@gmail.com

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