For anyone wondering why Trump would even consider holding a WH balcony serenade while he remains infected and infectious...the #DyingOfWhiteness reason would be, yet again, that he drives and is driven by the politics of racial resentment.....
By this logic, signaling his devotion to a hierarchy that keeps white people on top is more important then what might seem from the outside like self interest or communal well-being....
So while many wonder why Trump can hold another WH rally even when he has/embodies Covid-it’s sending a very particular message about whiteness and white America that he assumes a more powerful message for his supporters than what might seem from the outside like self interest...
Or self-preservation/public health......
That message is: maintain this ensickened hierarchy, or destroy everything rather than allow equity or change. Ergo, #DyingOfWhiteness ...
Of course, the supreme irony - just like public health or #COVID19 prevention, really fixing inequity would make things better and healthier for everyone - even for Trump and the ppl gathered beneath the floating COVID droplets of his balcony...
And of course - if Trump had *even for a moment* considered a national reckoning with inequity, or rallied national unity vs the pandemic, he wouldn’t even need to be pulling these pathetic, suicidal stunts - rather, he would be coasting to reelection...
But of course, that's not in him. Rather... #COVID19 is in him....
And ergo, he too is #DyingOfWhiteness.

Very, very, very hopeful that we can change this channel, reclaim/defend/support/enshrine our white houses and Black lives and all in between - for the sake of...everyone...
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