O P I N I O N

NOT THAT PROFOUND

By Nathan Graziano

It’s a sad statement on where we are as a state, and a nation, that on the night before Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, The Granite Post breaks a story about a state representative endorsing segregated schools in New Hampshire in a private group chat on Signal. 

It’s a sad statement that days before this long weekend that celebrates Civil Rights, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which put an end to segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South, that an elected official writes about reviving these tenets of racism and hate that are currently sweeping the nation. 

And instead of rebuking the remark and demanding a resignation, New Hampshire Republicans doubled-down on an excuse that did nothing but reinforce the idea of segregation, only according to idealogical—not racial—lines. 

That’s so much better. 

In normal times, a story like this one would have the general public in an uproar, but these are not normal times. As the government, led by an unhinged leader and a MAGA movement propelled by anger and hatred, marches toward facism with the fervent approval of many of its followers, this story barely made the radar. 

It was just one of many unfathomable acts of ugliness that landed in the newsfeeds on Tuesday. 

In all honesty, it would be easier to stomach said acts of ugliness without the flimsy excuses that follow them, the porous attempts to explain away the hate and racism in which they are rooted with explanations that are so preposterous that only the dimmest of dim stars could believe them.

Of course that 37-year-old woman in Minnesota was a dangerous leftist terrorist trying to run over an ICE agent with her mom-mobile. She deserved three bullets through her body.

Of course we need to detain brown people in concentration camps to keep America safe. It’s a miracle we all made it to 2025 alive with all of the rampant terror and violence that was running through our streets until Trump took over. 

Of course we need to take our children out of public schools that are indoctrinating every single one of them with Marxist propaganda. In fact, why not segregate the schools—according to political ideologies, of course. 

Listen, I don’t know who needs to hear this—and those who do have already stopped reading and started crafting their hate-post for me on social media, calling me a moron and a libtard¹ and a liar who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground—but segregation and the cleansing of people who you don’t like is not democratic. 

It is fascist, plain and simple, and it is coming to a town near you.   

1. I’m an independent, but don’t let that get in the way of your rage bait. ↩︎