the way black twitter/media is dancing at this man's downfall tho, too (not saying you are, but I just saw the pic too and you upped the post so I'm gonna vent lol).

Like, first of all, it's so obvious from the pic that he was set up... who the hell's feet were those, I thought the escort OD'd?? And the way his hand was being stepped on by that white/non-black foot was just so ugh... the sheer *dominance* as they took that pic to expose him. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Plus the pic itself appears to be a screenshot from the phone of whoever took that pic. Just damn.

In his statement about checking into rehab, he mentioned growing up in a household where there was alcoholism and how he is coming to terms with his own substance abuse... which he acknowledged may also relate to deeper struggles he is facing. I took this to be an obvious nod to challenges he's having with his sexuality which have now been exposed.

I really feel for his wife and kids of course, but I hope he himself will be ok. As in, I hope he's on suicide watch be ok :( Like this is deep dark stuff stemming all the way back to this man's childhood. And then to have it weaponized against him like this? While being one of the highest profile black male politicians from the south? For folks to be saying shit like "FL dodged a bullet" and "imagine this guy came within 35000 votes of being Governor of FL"... as if he's some worthless trash now?? The racist (and homphobic!) undertones make my skin crawl.

There hasn't been a Black American Governor of a southern state since the Reconstruction era. There hasn't been a *dark-skinned* Black American governor in the US period. Like this just killed half the pipeline. Hope Jaime Harrison does well in SC, at least that'd be a gain. That's Senate tho.