"We'll Get Over It"

Disclaimer: The author wishes to acknowledge at the outset of this essay, that what is being written is redundant. Nonetheless, it must be written because to not write it, is to capitulate.

The wall? "We'll get over it."

Have you seen George Lopez’ “The Wall?” The man is a genius for capturing the spirit of what makes this country continue staunchly marching onward, in the face of hatred and bigotry. As horrifying as it is, the face of hatred and bigotry these days, is our country’s President, Number 45.

45 wants the world to recognize that he is the man behind the construction of the wall, because he can’t come out and actually say, “I am a white supremacist.” However, what he can do is build a wall that will do little to keep Mexicans out of this country, and nothing to remove the ten million undocumented Mexicans already here.

From the stage Lopez flashed that innocent smile and asked 45 directly, if he didn’t think that Mexicans knew about the internet, or even airplanes? The notion that a wall is going to prevent more immigrants from coming to this country, can belong only to someone of such limited intellect, as to make one gasp. 

Gasping aside, if the wall is not going to keep Mexicans out, why bother building it? 45 wants it built because it is an in-your-face statement that this country does not want Mexico’s kind, the kind that are not lily-white. 

It makes me want to retch.

How does Lopez know that there are ten million undocumented Mexicans in this country? It makes no difference what the exact figure is. Like George so quaintly put it, and excuse the vulgarity, please, but 45’s vulgarity begets more of the same, “It’s like putting on the condom after you have fucked.”

45 built his campaign on this wall, encouraging his followers to join him in his hateful ban against select Middle Eastern nations, the ones not doing billions of dollars’ worth of business with him, and expanding the hatred to include Mexico.

Never mind that migrant workers do the chores that ‘Mericans wouldn’t do, even if you paid them real wages; that’s immaterial. What is relevant is that Mexicans are not acceptable for the same reason Muslims are not acceptable: They are not white.

When I ponder the many uses this money could be put to, besides this symbol of hatred and racism, it saddens me greatly. Hurricane relief, food and shelter for the homeless and education are only three of these, but instead, we are building a wall.

At last count, and the number is steadily climbing, 45 has committed at least eleven impeachable acts. It’s a race now as to which will come first, the building of a wall to keep Mexicans out, or the building of a wall to keep 45 in.

I’d like to think that common sense will prevail, and 45 will lose this battle, but I would not put money on it. 

Hatred has no boundaries, especially when it comes to creating and erecting boundaries.