Dearest Donald. Scratch that.
Dear Donald. Scratch that too.
Hey Donald!
Listen up buddy! It’s the 4th of July and most of middle-class America is drinking a cold one and barbecuing a burger. We will probably shoot a few bottle rockets and whistling bungholes off while crazy Uncle Larry makes his third toast of the night to you. I love my Uncle Larry even though we don’t see eye to eye on politics. He voted for you. I didn’t. That’s what makes the world go around, right? I know you want to “make America great again” but I have to tell you what you surely already know…we never stopped being great! Uncle Larry can wear his red hat to all the family barbecues and it doesn’t mean a d*mn thing and nobody cares. The red hat isn’t uniting us because we were never divided to begin with.
Donald you need to listen to me when I tell you this…we really are one big happy family of red, white, black and blue. We are all just trying to break free of the chains which hold us down, just like our forefathers did in 1776.
Thomas Jefferson had a grievance with King George and the rest is history. I imagine Thomas Jefferson woke up on the 4th , launched a rocket and said to himself “King George can sod off” so please don’t take it so personal when I get angry with you Donald. Do you even understand what chains hold so many of us down? Have you ever been chained down by poverty, addiction, unemployment, gun violence, student loans, discrimination and low and stagnant wages that don’t pay the bills? Of course, you haven’t. How can I help you understand what it feels like to work 40-60 hours per week and then only have enough left over to buy one package of whistling bunghole fireworks and one pound of hamburger meat? Despite what your economic advisors tell you Donald…It’s rough out here. It’s a fight every day to stay ahead and break the chains.
Back in April I was pretty livid at you Donald…
After all, I completed my taxes and found out I owed $5,000.00!
Your tax cut wasn’t a cut for me and I am insulted when you lie and say that it is. 5K might not seem like a lot of money to you but it’s money I could have used to build a deck, take a family vacation or send Uncle Larry to rehab so yeah, I do take it personal when you call it a “cut” when instead it was a con.
Enough about taxes. The 4th of July is here and we want to celebrate! All politics aside I am so happy I live in a country founded by rebels! I was never a tea drinker. I love my big American family. I love the hard-working Mexican immigrants who have raised multiple generations in the cornfields of Ohio to feed us. I love the strong black civil rights lawyers and activists who fought victoriously to win battles that changed laws governing basic human decency. I love the white Appalachian coal miners and union workers, like my Grandfather, who picketed and fought for decent wages and working conditions. I love all ethnic backgrounds, from many nations, who now call themselves Americans. I know what makes us different is exactly what makes us stronger. I learned in 10th grade history class that Lady Liberty shines brightest when we understand our history and when we embrace change instead of fear it.
Donald did you take Chemistry? I am asking because you didn’t release your transcripts or your tax returns. Everything is all hush hush. Why is that? My point is this…Hydrogen alone is just hydrogen. Oxygen alone is just oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen together? H2O baby! We are stronger and more powerful TOGETHER. So please, Donald, don’t try to pull us apart , drop by drop, by pointing out our differences.
I know my neighbor is married to a woman and I am married to a man. She pays her bills. I pay mine. We both staked out our claim on five acres and we wave to each other as we mow our lawns. She can fly a rainbow flag and I am not bothered by it. I can fly my OSU flag and she thinks it’s pretty cool. We both fly American flags in our yard. F*ck yeah!
Donald, I know you are most likely golfing or lounging on the beach at Mar-a-Lago after your big speech at the Lincoln Memorial. I hope you have a restful holiday. Please rest your brain. Take some fish oil or something. Take a break from twitter. A lot of us are sweating it out here in Nowhere, Ohio where it’s hotter than the devil’s crotch. I am worried though because the corn is NOT “knee high by the 4th of July” as it should be. Ohio is flooding. Do you think global warming has anything to do with this?
I am sorry I asked. Don’t answer. Just don’t.
Please just trust the scientists to guide you before you tweet about it. I hope you know that many Ohio farmers are counting on you to do the right thing and fix all this tariff nonsense. Don’t punish the heartland but instead give us a helping hand if you can.
I am going to have to cut this short Donald. Uncle Larry has fired up the grill. It’s time for all of us to celebrate TOGETHER and as one UNITED family. To raise our beers and toast our REBEL forefathers who on the 4th of July in 1776 demanded that we be given certain inalienable rights;
”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I wish you well Donald. Stay off of twitter and Happy 4th of July.
Sincerely,
Teresa Hall
Teresa McIntosh-Hall is a wife, mother, writer, blogger, social worker, proud American and political activist who is going to shoot a few bottle rockets off later tonight.
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