a second pox on all their houses

​Though I cannot say to American women that I know or feel the pain brought on by the Kavanaugh hearings and subsequent appointment as a supreme court judge. I am pained, to the extent that a privileged white man can be, for and with you. I have been profoundly discouraged, depressed, and almost debilitated, by the atrocities committed by the U.S. senate’s judiciary committee over the past weeks. Now, with today’s appointment, it is painfully clear that the atrocities will continue, not for weeks or months or even years, but for another generation.
 
Notwithstanding the past meager advances of American women, this pack of white men, insatiably hungry for power, will, sadly, likely subject you to additional brutal and bitter days in the future. Such days are not likely to end until you have broken the white man’s hold on power.
 
These latest brutalities are, I know, only the latest in a 500 year history of white man rule. I hope it does not add salt to your wounds to make the points that follow. But the past weeks hearings and today’s appointment should serve as a reminder of these brutal truths. They should serve to intensify the call to action.
 
First, this is what you must remember about we—for, alas, I am one—white men. We have ruled the world, now, for just a little more than half a millennium. You must know from our history that we white men did not gain that rule by power-sharing or seeking to achieve equality with anyone. More monkey than human, we are not power-sharers. We took control by violent force; by subjecting, and oppressing, and, when the first two failed to achieve our ends, by murdering black men, brown men, yellow men, and red men—all other men, wherever we found them. To this day, no one, anywhere, is safe from our violent greed. This is how we roll. We are not likely to change our ways.
 
Covered in blood as we are, and aware, subconsciously, perhaps, that if we yield power, it may be our blood that is next shed, we are not likely to give that power up to anyone else. Not even our wives and daughters.
 
This brings us to our second point. American women have been calling for “equal rights” for decades now.
 
This… will… not… do.
 
Just think about it for a moment. When have white men ever treated anyone as equals—red, black, yellow, or brown? Having gained power, when have they ever shared power with anyone else?
 
You must not labor and fight for any such mythic achievements as “power-sharing” or “equal rights” with men. They will not share power and they will not treat you as equals. If you wish to climb out from under the kind of oppression that has been speechified the past few days and weeks by the likes of the ol’ white southern plantation master, Lyndsey Graham, you will have to think bigger. You will have to grab “unequal power” and “unequal rights” just as the white men did centuries ago. You will have to dominate, not communicate.
 
The fight will not be pretty. It will not be measured, as we saw in the senate judiciary committee these past weeks. They will utilize extreme measures to maintain their power. You will have to be extreme in return. You will not be able to fight the fire with a splash of water. You’ll have to set fires. Metaphorically, if not literally, there will be blood on the floor. Short of this, they will not yield power.
 
Some may say that this is not in the woman’s nature. I don’t know about that. It is not for me to say. It is for them to decide. But this latest pack of alpha male monkeys cannot be reasoned with any more than those that proceeded them. You should see that after the weeks-long bloodbath in the U.S. senate. If you want “equal” anything, you’ll have to pry, not 50%, but 60, 70, 75 percent out of their grasping and grubby little monkey hands. And you’ll have to define and partition whatever you permit them to retain.
 
The question is, when you have done so, will you wield power any better than they have? The women who sit on the judiciary committee don’t exactly instill confidence.
 
Notwithstanding the uncertainty, though, I, for one, am ready to give it a whorl—turn power over to the women. It is hard to believe that women—be they black, red, yellow, or brown—can do worse than we white men. We have simply made a complete mess of the planet. We have utterly disfigured our faces so that it can no longer be said that we are made in the image and likeness of God. Here’s hoping that Eve, who was also created in the image and likeness of God, can do better than Adam.