{"id":46954,"date":"2020-05-31T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46954"},"modified":"2020-08-13T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:05:02","slug":"new-father-brogging-010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46954","title":{"rendered":"New Father Brogging, #010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A thought that often crosses my mind is that I can\u2019t believe the world that my daughter was born into.\u00a0 And then I feel really sad about it, despite knowing that she very well won\u2019t remember any of this stuff, but one day she might read about it in history books or any sort of resource that outlines the happening throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s bad enough she was born right at the very start of when coronavirus came into the United States and was shortly declared a global pandemic, literally changing the landscape of the world where the vast majority of educated people began to take shelter in their homes, to minimize the spread of a new disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in a way that can only be described as amazing, a global pandemic still managed to get pushed into to the backseat by the more recent civil unrest that\u2019s boiled over on account of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and very recently George Floyd in Minnesota, with the latter being pretty flagrantly executed by a white police officer, when his neck was low-key crushed under the knee of the cop.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I\u2019m writing this, all across the country, there have been countless protests, many of which escalated into riots complete with looting, and there are hundreds to thousands of people who have been physically harmed, gassed, tazed or impacted by some form of crowd control.\u00a0 The police are widely viewed as the enemy now instead of the agency that\u2019s meant to serve and protect, and it\u2019s times like this in which I\u2019m kind of glad that one, I don\u2019t live\/work as close to actual city-proper Atlanta as I used to, and two, add the staying home as yet another ironic benefit to there being a fucking pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very sad and scary thought to think of this being the world that my first child was born into, and I feel like the generations before her have already let her down in fostering a world that\u2019s supposed to be safe and better for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Like, think back one literal century ago; what really has changed?\u00a0 In 1920, there was a pandemic ravaging the whole world, and in America, there was massive civil and racial unrest.\u00a0 Granted, a hundred years ago it was on account of slavery, but given one\u2019s interpretation of slavery versus modern discrimination, I think it\u2019s up for debate on whether or not things have really changed that much in 100 years, but I think my point is clear hopefully.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also the internet easily manages to make any one city\u2019s problem a national one in no time flat, which I think definitely puts points into the things are way worse now category.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really scary to me that police are rapidly being perceived as public enemy #1.\u00a0 I get that there are certainly plenty of questionable badges out there that do or have done deplorable things, but it\u2019s disheartening to see that all law enforcement is rapidly being made out to be all villains.\u00a0 At the end of the day, the police are still meant to protect the people, and if all of this civil unrest escalates to where police is basically dissolved, then what the fuck happens next?<\/span><\/p>\n

But in the other hand, I can 100% understand the fear and distrust from those in the black community as well as all those who support them.\u00a0 As a minority myself, I know that Asian people are seen as acceptable until they\u2019re not, like being all lumped into the umbrella of being progenitor of coronavirus, but I definitely am aware that no one demographic tends to get it like the black community.<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels like we\u2019re on the cusp of actually becoming the Watchmen<\/em> television series, where the police become targets to violence and as a whole have to go under masks for the safety of themselves.\u00a0 The way things are going now with police being seen as enemies, it\u2019s only a matter of time before they\u2019ll feel the need to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s scary what\u2019s going on out there now.\u00a0 America really does continue to suck, as much as I hate to say it, but there\u2019s no denying America is like a bad dumpster fire meme right now, and it makes me sad that this is the America that\u2019s forever going to be known for in 2020, the birth year of my kid.\u00a0 I can\u2019t insulate and keep her safely at home for her entire life, but I sure can hope that by the time she\u2019ll have to start going out into the world, it\u2019ll maybe not so rabidly insane out there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A thought that often crosses my mind is that I can\u2019t believe the world that my daughter was born into.\u00a0 And then I feel really sad about it, despite knowing that she very well won\u2019t remember any of this stuff, but one day she might read about it in history books or any sort of … Continue reading New Father Brogging, #010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,100,194,112,193,192,89,69,68,49],"class_list":["post-46954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-comparison","tag-coronavirus","tag-crime","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46956,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46954\/revisions\/46956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}