You Know, I Have To Say It

Secretary of State.

Black woman. And yea, she’s a ball-buster. She’s smart. She’s brutal. She’ll kick your ass. First black woman to hold the post. Second woman.

In the history of the US.

I don’t want to say “good for you” because she’s done it with a foreign policy I don’t agree with, and an attitude toward the rest of the world that sickens me, but shit, how many old white men have held the post with the same politics? And no, her parents didn’t join the civil rights movement, and there’s talk that she’s seen as “disconnected” from the black community (“playing white”), but shit.

I gotta give credit where credit’s due.

Next up: let’s get people into this position who don’t have to be bully assholes to get there.

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