Ryne is sick and tired of being sick and tired and ready to vent about some erstwhile allies.

In addition to being a fine writer, Ryne is an excellent photographer as you can see from the featured image.

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The Trouble With Leftists by Ryne Hancock

Named for Abraham Lincoln Davis, the first African American to hold a position on the New Orleans City Council, A.L. Davis Park is a landmark in my neighborhood here in New Orleans.

It also was the site of one of the most bizarre if not exhausting moments I’ve witnessed in my nine years in New Orleans.

Three years ago, I went to a May Day event at that very same park. Midway through the event, an NOPD cop car pulled over someone on the Washington Avenue side of the park.

As the event was going on in the park, this group of white folks started walking towards the fence that separated the street from the park. The number got bigger by the minute and a Black lady with a megaphone joined in and people had their phones out recording.

“This is what solidarity looks like,” the woman said.

Moments later, a chant of “let them go” broke out, which in turn led me to shake my head and roll my eyes.

A week later, I recalled the incident with a friend of mine.

“They want to think that they’re allies, because they show up and it looks good for them, but they don’t listen to the people because deep down they don’t care.”

And this was not some intellect from up North or even a Black woman that said this.

This was a White woman from the Mississippi Gulf Coast that told me this.

Throughout the last 13 months, I’ve had to deal with parts of my life interrupted in New Orleans by a bunch of fools trying to force feed the Free Palestine movement down everyone’s throat.

And let me be clear, I do think genocide is wrong. This isn’t in defense of genocide if that’s what you think.

But when you latch onto a cause you have no fucking clue about it makes you look more like an idiot than someone that’s an ally.

But you can’t tell that to the far-left loonies, most of whom are White.

“They will stand by the marginalized group, but ignore the voices of the individuals,” the same friend told me years ago, “Especially in mostly liberal areas.”

Every time I’ve criticized the Free Palestine movement, the Squad, or Bernie Sanders, I’ve been accused of being a) Republican b) a Zionist (no clue what the hell does that mean) or c) anti-Semitic.

I’ve had people, people who I’ve hung out with or shared the stage as a comedian, question me and my politics over the last few years.

“If you’re trying to lecture a Black man on how to think, or who to vote for, then you’re not an ally of mine. You are a fucking jackass,” I once said, “You believe that a Black Lives Matter flag flying over your house makes you an ally. It doesn’t.”

Which is why, and people can get mad at me all they want, it’s time to cut our losses with the leftist loonies.

While people may think that the leftist loonies are as harmless as those Care Bears, I had when I was a child, I beg to differ.

Some of these leftist loonies (note, I said SOME) want to watch the world burn. They fetishize what they see in places like South America and want to do the same shit here.

Meaning that, they want the worst person to take over as a way for centrist normies to learn a lesson about revolutions and more importantly, hide their “allyship” behind the cloaks of racism and misogyny.

They can’t go after the alt-right because it’s very hard to protest your reflection. It’s very hard to see your true self in the mirror.

Which is why it’s time to send the leftist loonies to bed with a Care Bear and maybe a blankie.

Because your fake-ass principled bullshit is why we are here today.