America’s Reset — But Who’s Really Benefiting?

Written By LaSaia Wade

We’re standing at a moment of national restart. A “reset” that’s empowered, energized, and charged with possibility. But let’s be real: while slick politicians celebrate it as a rebirth, who’s actually reaping the benefits?

The Bitter Irony of White Male Power

White men in power keep doubling down on chaos and division — policies that don’t uplift their own poor, rural, working-class kin. Instead, they’re weaponizing political religion and white grievance to sacrifice these communities on the altar of authoritarian gain. Compare that to the extremist Muslim narrative — it's the same twisted self-erasure: people dying for ideology, not for community. This is the exact mindset that 1 John 4 warns us about — you can’t love God and hate your brother at the same time. Those who plead religious authority while sowing division are straight-up liars. So why is religion being used as a political weapon? It’s backwards, dangerous, and deeply hypocritical.

Rural Whites Abandoned for Conservative Theater

  • Studies show white working-class voters are cultural anxiety magnets — feeling “a stranger in their own land” and afraid their identity is under siege brookings.edu+2prri.org+2theguardian.com+2.

  • These fears are cultural, not economic. Many actually support paths to citizenship and higher taxes on the wealthy prri.org.

  • Yet, politicians weaponize that cultural fear and leverage evangelical leanings — abandoning true economic action in the name of identity politics .

So while white men’s anxieties are exploited, real solutions like $15 minimum wage and wealth taxes (which most working-class actually support) are ignored theguardian.com+5prri.org+5newyorker.com+5.

ICE Terror, Suppression & the “Hartos de ICE” Movement

Our communities are in fear. The Trump admin is hitting arrest quotas — up to 3,000/day — and rounding up not just undocumented people, but legal residents too sfchronicle.com+1washingtonpost.com+1.

In cities across California:

Meanwhile, community advocates are hitting legal and civic defense hard:

  • California and 19 other states have filed lawsuits to stop Medicaid data sharing with ICE — a move meant to stop health-disruption raids politico.com.

  • Bay Area groups are organizing culturally rooted events like Santa Rosa’s Guelaguetza to counter fear with unity sfchronicle.com.

Action Items & How YOU Can Help

  1. Support the "Hartos de ICE" movement — these walkouts and protests spread awareness and crack the walls built by fear.

  2. Donate or volunteer with organizations like MALDEF, Centro CSO, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar, and La Raza Community Resource Center — champs in legal defense and cultural safeguarding.

  3. Share toolkits for rapid response to ICE in your community — from legal observers to ICE watch groups.

  4. Amplify legislation that blocks ICE abuses, like Brown and New York's push to ban masks/unmarked operations sfchronicle.com+1nypost.com+1ctinsider.com.

  5. Escalate cultural life. View canceled festivals as rally calls: bring art, worship, dance into parks, front yards, your hood — turn fear into resistance.

Don’t Let Their Religion Be Your Shackles

What men in white-power positions are doing is betrayal — they use faith as a gun, not as a path to liberation. That is not God. That's toxic theology. They're sacrificing the working class for a warped vision of religious-nationalism. The truth in 1 John 4 calls that out — no hatred or fear wrapped in God-talk is righteous.

Bottom Line: Reset With Intention

America is at a crossroads. Chosen wisely, this moment could uplift marginalized communities, centralize economic justice, and re-ignite cultural strength. But if we let white male fear-mongering hijack the narrative, these resets just reinforce the same damn structures.

Tha Blacq Sheep stands for an America that resets to liberate, not divide.

🔗 Further Reading & Sources

LaSaia Wade
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