Lilith and I took a late afternoon walk, ran into Uncle John and a friend of his at the cemetery. Uncle John started singing his Lilith song. I couldn't take a photo of his friend, because he'd signed three NDAs for his contract. Sounds like getting married to Trump, I said, and sure enough we started talking politics. I was inclined to argue, but a voice in my head said that my job was to listen. The friend (who declared himself working class) thought Trump the lesser of two evils because he doesn't like the Green New Deal: solar farms kill native birds, coal plants were regulated and clean. Who dug the oil wells in Venezuela? But yes, the USA has done horrible things in central and south America, he averred. As for ICE, he'd gotten pulled over in Arizona in 2008 and asked for his green card. He's Hawaiian. He had to take a phone call. Uncle J said there's much worse than Epstein . . . and talked about how BLM had been taken over by bad elements . . . its leader was killed . . . Black folks vote for Dems because their parents tell them to, and the real problem in the Black community is the high rate of abortion. He grew up on the North Shore; he's half-Black but looked Black, and suffered a lot of racism. "Hawai`i is the most racist place on earth," he said.
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