I’m sitting out in my backyard right now. It’s a perfect evening in my small town. There’s not too many bugs. All I hear are birds, crickets, and the faint echoing of evening church tunes played out from the Lutheran church down the block. Occasionally some of the dozens of white children walk or bike by nicely and I wave at them.
I’m getting married in a month. I own my home. Beyond my mortgage I don’t have debt. I just picked some vegetables from my garden yesterday. I have chicken grown by my friend in my fridge.
I used to live in the city and the rest of my family and friends still do. I just stopped by to visit them last weekend. My mom tells me all about the crime in the neighborhood. My friends tell me how they just had an intervention for our buddy who was in pretty deep on fentanyl and meth.
Before I moved when the riots were happening in 2020 and people were busting up and burning places I wanted to get out and stand on rooftops with guns. I saw places I grew up with destroyed and people I loved terrorized, thinking they would be next. And I looked around and people told me “I need to understand the anger” “lives aren’t worth property”.
I don’t live there anymore. I don’t surround myself with them anymore. Now I live in a place that 150 years ago my ancestors killed and fought for. And there’s a statue in the heart of the town that honors that.
And I think that’s why it’s such a nice evening.
I need to move further out. I'm in the burbs, but the communal centers outside of church are starting to look a bit too diverse. My wife and I went on one of our bi-annual trips up to the local wal-mart for some cheap chinese junk and a bluray, and there were so many fucking pajeets I almost couldn't believe it.
I guess it's wal-mart, and I don't go often enough to notice... but there were so many of them! At one point we got trapped in a isle by a burka wearing terrorist coming down one end, and some pajeet with his 2 screaming poos from the other.
My wife and I shared a look and laughed, to which point I started loudly exclaiming *"Nah, can't get that. It's got curry in it!"* about every item on the shelf.
*"Shhhh hun! Jeez lol! Shhhhhh!"*
Does your Walmart have like three different cameras built into the self checkout too?