Over the last 10 years, those who believe in empathy, equality, social progress and joy have had to endure the chronic whining, rage, fury, insults and complaints from the miserably mad MAGA cult. In order to appease the raging cult in their apparent insatiable quest to “Make America Great White Again,” the 47th president’s administration unleashed an unrelenting flurry of exhaustive measures to dismantle and defund institutions, departments and programs that provided opportunities and protection for Black people and other racial minorities. The scorched earth approach that has harmed millions of hard-working people will still not make America White. The inconvenient truth is that millions of Indigenous people were here first, then millions of Africans were forcibly removed from their homeland and brought to the shores to do work that the European outcast settlers did not want to do. On top of that, in the mid-1800s, Mexico ceded huge swaths of their country, which was occupied by non-White people, to the United States. So, the fantasy of creating an all-White world will remain just that when only 58 percent of the United States and a maximum 15 percent of the entire world are White. Rather than panic about that reality, MAGA could spare themselves from rage if there was a determination to learn from and get along with others.
The grievances and whining of the MAGA cult led them to elect a Confederate-sympathizing president for a second time. The complicit enablers control the House, the Senate and have a majority on the Supreme Court. In addition, 26 states have GOP governors. But rather than collaborate with people who have different cultures, values and views, the perpetually mad want to dominate and intimidate every aspect of life. In their insatiable determination to rage about everything, they’re fuming about Bad Bunny, an American citizen from Puerto Rico, performing at the 2026 Super Bowl. All their whining, promises to produce a counter-programming concert, plus a petition with over 100,000 signatures apparently influenced the NFL to schedule a first “pre-Super Bowl concert” featuring Sting, who is White and a British citizen.
The selective outrage of the MAGA cult is telling. These same people who are content watching a game where over half of the players are Black (compared to 14 percent of the population) fume about hearing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (the Black national anthem) or a Hispanic man perform the half-time show. The message is that Black and Hispanic people can use their bodies to entertain them in a violent sport, but there is no desire to hear or appreciate the voices or concerns of those same people.
Instead of embracing the beauty and diversity of the United States and working with their fellow citizens as one people to make the country great for everyone, they choose to stew in hatred. They don’t understand that generations of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic and Asian people have lived their entire lives navigating the hate-filled MAGA mad and their ilk. We learned from our parents, grandparents and other ancestors how to stay focused on our own lives, enjoy our own cultures and support each other. We do not define who we are based on other people’s never-ending anger.
The MAGA mad are the ones who seem obsessed with us. Despite their commitment to demanding and supporting policies that make our lives as difficult as possible, and benefiting from having paths cleared for them to succeed, they can’t stay away from us. In fact, some have traveled to predominately Black and Brown neighborhoods and schools just to provoke us in our own spaces. They can’t function in their own bile without us. They do things like travel to a majority-Black area of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, to antagonize Black people who in turn formed groups to protect themselves. A different group showed up uninvited to the HBCU Tennessee State University’s campus shortly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination in order to “debate” with Black students and were escorted off. Some of the same people who profess to be so “superior” also chronically work on their tans and augment their facial features, body parts and style their hair in ways that resemble Black people. They want to look more like us, but not be treated like us. Despite untold atrocities and violence inflicted by them, their hatred is not returned. Black and Brown people understand that racial bigots are confused, pitiful and could benefit from therapy. We just want to be left alone to live in peace.
Rather than up their game to compete on an even playing field, they’d rather spend their time, energy and money on trying to keep everyone else down or out. All that does is make their insecurity even more obvious. Black and Brown people don’t have time to focus all their attention on the insecurities and sources of rage of the MAGA mad. We’re too busy living our own lives to concern ourselves with chronic tantrums. It is obvious after 10 years of raging and complaining that the MAGA cult will never be happy. So they can stay mad while everyone else innovates, creates and celebrates themselves and others in a diverse world where everyone is treated with respect and dignity.
Black and Brown people will enjoy life together in January 2026 — celebrating the political wins of historically underrepresented people including Black women. We will cheer as Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as New York City’s youngest mayor in over 100 years and the first African-born Indian Muslim American. A month later, we will dance along with Bad Bunny as he makes history as the first Latin male artist to perform solo at the Super Bowl half-time show. And doing so in Spanish will make the MAGA cult extra fester in their bile of hatred. They can continue exchanging foul, hate-filled text messages and fantasize about an all-White country while everyone else builds a diverse, multi-cultural, multi-religious world where people of all genders and abilities love their neighbors as themselves; believe in and work towards a government of, by and for all people; and create systems where everyone enjoys a fair chance to compete and succeed. MAGA will exhaust themselves seething on the sidelines and miss all the fun.