Excerpted from a Facebook Post
~ by Hénock Gugsa ~
A Facebook exchange is taking place between two women about a neighborhood convenience store (C-Town) and the checkout clerk who might already be sick from COVID. This is from a post by a FB friend of mine who lives in Brooklyn, NY.
I found the conversation somehow hilarious. But someone objected, thinking that I was laughing "because [I] found the women ignorant."
On the contrary, I don't think these women are ignorant at all. In fact, what I see is pure, unadulterated and visceral responses and reactions to everyday life.
Actually I find the humor arising not from their " ignorance" but in other things that come into play such as politics.
These women are actually slamming Trump for his racist "shit-hole countries" remark that he made some time back. There is also an unspoken criticism of his administration's total failure in this pandemic to help out the most affected communities.
I was laughing at the extreme irony of it all ! This is a serious, "hurting-funny" situation where we are all weeping at the madness and craziness of America now!
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