Opinion: The 2021 Inauguration

	By Delilah Cortez, Economic Justice Editor, The Real Chi

Former businessman Donald J. Trump won the presidency of the United States in 2016. Given that this was over four long years ago now, it feels as if it just happened. Within these last few years, there has been large waves of stress and turmoil amongst the minority community. Now, racism has always crept itself into every generation for as long as we can remember. Unfortunately, minorities have had to receive the backlash of racism for centuries upon centuries. People have noticed that closeted racists have been more bold since Trump’s presidential inauguration because his beliefs relate to their own. Racism reached its peak after the Black Lives Matter movement in Chicago in May of 2020. After this event transpired, high school students were going viral on Twitter and Facebook because of their demeaning posts. 

 Of course, the media ignored this outcome of the event and turned its head. There is no way to tell how far humans can go when it comes to bigotry and racism, but this shows more than enough. 

Now that Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has become the president of the United States, it seems to be that Trump supporters are livid. And we know this because of what happened at the Capitol. Although people were upset about the Black Lives Matter movement because of the rioting and looting, these same people turned around and did the exact same thing. Their hypocrisy is blatant and open to the public, but they judged and held their noses up high when the Black community tried to make real change. Now the tables have turned, and racists and bigots are now afraid of the new outcome with Biden’s presidency.