Thank you for reading, this and all of it -- I spent a long time thinking about that post, and then decided to call it what it is. No surrender, no retreat over here ... the march toward freedom (and the fight when necessary) has to continue, because LITERALLY, there are people who want to revert the United States to its old hypocrisy! Not on my watch!
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I think there's been enough silence and submission. Xx
I always feel we have a responsibility to learn about these things and literature has always been my in in that regard. It helps us have empathy. I wonder if half the problem is that they refuse to make any attempt to understand history and what people have suffered..
That is half the problem ... because that means what they have been taught about their worth through the stories of THEIR ancestors, and about American exceptionalism, is a lie, and if they accept that, they will then have to rebuild their entire identity. If the land of the free and the home of the brave is NOT, then who are THEY? Most people do not want to embark on the kind of journey my ancestors were forced on to even understand their PERSONHOOD -- and when I say most people, that includes most African Americans. A lot of us are living by what we are TOLD instead of going on that journey... we are not a reflective culture in the United States, so it is hard for us to consider things deeply enough to discover new ways forward. It is easier to default. In order to consider ourselves HUMAN, African Americans have to realize that 90 percent of what we have been taught about our history in these United States is a LIE, by COMMISSION. In order for other people to consider us as human as they see themselves, they will ALSO have to realize that 90 percent of what THEY were taught about their ancestors is also a LIE, by OMISSION.