Monday, June 30, 2025

A Short History of the Lies that Became Law

The Lie at the Heart of the Republic

America has always been a country built on a lie—the lie of its own innocence. It is a nation that has never truly reckoned with the blood in its soil, the chains on its history, or the deliberate, systematic exclusion of Black people from its promise. And now, in this hour of grotesque political theater, we are forced to bear witness to yet another act of legislative violence—the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a monstrous edifice of greed and racial malice, draped in the tattered finery of patriotism.

This is not governance. This is not policy. This is theft, this is cruelty, this is the unmasked face of a movement that has never ceased its war against Black America. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have not hidden their intentions; they have simply refined their language, sharpened their knives, and dressed their hatred in the sterile jargon of bureaucracy. But we see them. We have always seen them.

The Anatomy of a Theft

Let us be clear: H.R. 1 is not a bill. It is a weapon. It is a blueprint for the further immiseration of the poor, the further disenfranchisement of Black and brown voters, the further militarization of a state that already views its most vulnerable citizens as enemies. It is, in every sense, an insurrection—not the kind that storms the Capitol in a single day, but the kind that dismantles democracy brick by brick, year by year, until nothing remains but the hollow shell of white supremacy.

Consider its parts:

  • Title I (Agriculture) slashes food assistance, not because the nation cannot afford to feed its people, but because hunger is a tool. When Black and brown children go to bed with empty stomachs, when mothers must choose between rent and groceries, the architects of this misery call it "fiscal responsibility." But we know the truth: this is punishment. This is the old Southern strategy reborn, the same logic that once starved Reconstruction into submission.
  • Title III (Education and Workforce) restructures financial aid not to uplift, but to exclude. It is a segregationist document, a return to the days when education was a privilege reserved for the white and the wealthy. The children of the ghetto, the barrio, the rez—they are to be left behind once more, deemed unworthy of investment, condemned to the same cycles of deprivation that have always been their inheritance.
  • Title VI (Homeland Security) does not secure. It terrorizes. It turns the border into a warzone, migrants into "invaders," and law enforcement into an occupying army. The language is not accidental—invasion, infestation, criminal aliens—these are the words of lynchers, of men who once called us savages and rapists and thieves. The goal is not safety. The goal is fear. The goal is to make America white again.
  • Title IX (Oversight and Government Reform) is a surgical strike on the Black middle class, a dismantling of the very mechanisms that once offered some slim hope of equity. Federal jobs, civil service protections, pathways to stability—all of it, gone. Because a Black man with a pension, a Black woman with a government salary, is a threat to the order of things.

And then there is Title XI, the final insult: a looting of the public treasury so brazen it would make the Robber Barons blush. Estate tax cuts for dynasties, voucher schemes for segregation academies, a feast for the already obscenely wealthy while the rest of us fight for scraps. This is not policy. This is piracy.

The Ghosts in the Machine

None of this is new. The Southern Strategy never ended; it merely evolved. The men who once stood in courthouse doors blocking Black students now sit in Senate chambers, crafting laws that do the same work with finer print. The same hands that wrote Jim Crow now draft voter ID laws. The same mouths that screamed states' rights now whisper austerity.

They have learned to hide their hatred behind spreadsheets, to disguise their violence in subclauses and subsections. But the bloodstains are still there. When you cut SNAP, you are reviving the Black Codes. When you privatize schools, you are rebuilding the segregated academy. When you militarize the border, you are resurrecting the slave patrol.

This is the great American tradition: racism by another name, oppression in a fresh suit.

IV. The Choice Before Us

America stands at a crossroads—not the false one of partisan politics, but the real one of moral reckoning. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is not an anomaly. It is the culmination of decades of calculated cruelty, of a movement that has always believed this country belongs to white men and white men alone.

But we—Black America—have seen this before. We have survived worse. And we know, in our bones, that this nation cannot be saved unless it is transformed.

What is demanded of us now is not patience. Not compromise. Not the tired old song of wait your turn. What is demanded is resistance—unyielding, unapologetic, relentless.

  • White allies must finally choose. No more hand-wringing. No more both sides. If you are silent now, you are complicit. If you look away now, you are guilty.
  • The courts must be challenged. Not with deference, but with fury. These laws are not legal; they are crimes against democracy.
  • The streets must rise. Not once, not symbolically, but again and again, until the walls shake.
  • The vote must be wielded like a hammer. Not as an end, but as a beginning.

Because the truth is this: America will never be whole until it faces what it has done to us. Until it pays its debts. Until it understands, finally, that Black liberation is not a threat—it is the only path to redemption.

V. The Fire Next Time

They think they can bury us. They are wrong.

We have been here before—in chains, in cages, in ghettos, in graves. And yet we rise.

Let this bill be their monument. Let it stand as proof of their fear, their hatred, their rot.

And let our answer be the same as it has always been: No. Not this time. Not ever again.

No matter what it takes.


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