From the years January 20, 2009 through January 20, 2017, we have laughed, talked, joked, screamed in anger and rage, loved, imagined, dreamed, sang, petitioned, marched, walked, flew, pushed, pulled, dragged kicking and screaming, and cried … most definitely cried … and didn’t know all along that we were looking at the Last legitimate President of the United States in Mr. Barack Obama, the last Black President.

Knowing President Obama’s history, he’d be a gentleman and tell us not to think of Trump in that way, but there ain’t nothing Americans loved more than a good old fashioned scrap; and this is a fight he would have to tip his white cowboy hat on, back up and say “May the best of the best win.”

President Barack H. Obama Jr. has brought us, with his actions or lack thereof, from our darkest dreariest moments to our brightest and happiest; and he did it all in the tradition of upstanding dignity shown by nearly every President before him — a few within an inch of their lives.

However, America has an ongoing long-term mental health issue, most of it centered around race.

Racism founded this nation called the United States of America, racism bought it, brought it, taught it, and built it, and racism is structured into the core and the very fibers of its existence all the way from the late 1500s to this very moment in time. From the second this nation was consummated at a Constitutional Convention now more than 200 years old that was filled to the brim with duly-appointed racists, America has not only built its foundation on racism, but profited HEAVILY from it on the backs of a race of people who would later come to be known as “The American Negro.”

Then, nearly 40 years to the moment that Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy announced that [within] 40 years, it was highly possible that a “Negro” would be elected President of the United States–shortly before he was murdered in August 1968 on the heels of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that previous April–it actually happened. With a high hat salute to those who were already dead and a breath of a good story to tell to the ones not yet born, it really happened. On our watch, during the awakening of The Joshua Generation, and it was a sight to behold. A moment in time worthy of all the celebrations it received and then some.

I was not one of those Black women who saw America as post-racial, I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. Too much had happened in more than 300 years for it to just go away.

But it was my hope that we The U.S. Nation were finally at the precipice of a resolution about race in America that would change lives and begin the healing process. I knew it was going to be a PROCESS, not an overnight miracle. The overriding shame of it all is that America, once again, had to see for itself what it had become, what it had done to itself as well as the Black lives that built it into a prosperous entity.

There was no fail-safe guarantee that racism in America was a thing of the past, and the unfortunate recent news of Donald Trump’s ascendancy to national office as a notable racist and accused rapist, is proof of it.

Had the white powers that be not been such racists with the power and money to do it that way, Trump’s presidency would never have seen the light of day; and if “The American Negro” had not been on the battleground playing and fooling around as their own hard-earned hard-won death-defying voting rights were stripped away one piece at a time, in order that no “Negro” should ever ascend to the presidency in this racist America again, it may not have happened.

Did someone think these homegrown terrorists called white supremacists were playing games when they started moving the political chess pieces around the board in 2008 and 2009 and 2010 with ALEC and “Citizens United”? Did someone think it a joke when they decided to “hit back” at Obama’s election with a super-predator fascist checkmate, one of the most hard-core racists that they could dredge up to do the job of putting us back in our Negro places, and to send us a definitive message about what they think of us, our ‘nigger’ president, and our so-called forward-thinking progressive agendas?

To be sure, racists are never playing games with us. EVER.

If they come to the playground with a rope, they don’t come to play “skip to my lou my darling“. They come to play Hangman, in the worst way.

Those of us who “get it” have to be still and watch them do it, because we know that the moment we utter a word in defiance, there are other Black people in the room who are actually inclined to believe anything a white person says, any way they say it. Since that is the case, they will be the first ones running to the defense of those planning their backward regression and/or demise, as if they are simply more comfortable with racism locked in place than without it. There ain’t a good day to die like one in the hands of a white racist.

This gainfully historic twist in the Black psyche helped build the momentum for a Trump presidency, and though we are certainly not the only ones to blame, we could have stopped it.

Trump was an illegitimate waste of the political processes that have always had us legally bound from the polls and poll taxes to the red lines in our neighborhoods and banking institutions and judicial systems. But not once in this period of time will we ever get around to asking the question about what Trump did or did not do ‘for Black people,’ because we already know the answer and have apparently decided it’s okay and best that he don’t do anything for Black people at all.

They’re not done yet, they are just getting started, so hold on for the ride.

If nothing else, those who were in denial about racism in America have to finally either admit or, or keep on deluding themselves into believing Barack Obama had something to do with it, beginning in year 1535 and again in year 1690.

In the meantime, some of us are still looking around for glimpses of Resident Citizen President Barack Obama and his outstanding exemplary dignified upstanding American Black family, because they are the last hope we so-called American Negroes have left of any changes forthcoming in the future. And we would want to hope that those typical trite American racists who put that piece of orange sludge in the Oval Office on January 20, 2017 can’t keep him there much longer.

Yet and still, if they do manage to keep him there for now, his time is limited regardless; and a lot of pushback activated work out of Black citizens is going to have to be done between now and then to wipe out everything damaging that he does, post-haste.

But in the old tradition of America’s racist past, the white folks and their Black race-constituents who supported and do yet support Trump will ask the daunting question that they always have asked: “Whatchu gon’ do ’bout it nigger?”

Yes indeed. What?