I hope you plan to publish these essays as a collection. I learn from each one. People keep saying, 'history will show' or 'history will say' not realizing that history is written by the winners. And unless we make an effort to collect the history of this time, it will disappear into unaccessible archives just as the stories of these men did.
We must see to it that the story is told properly.
“Resegregation” should be the definitive description for this period in history. Based on history, Black people should be at war. The problem is that too many of our people have discounted history because they have succumbed to “post-racialism.”
I agree 100%. That single word really had power as I was reading this. People of color, primarily Black people, understand it more than anyone but possible the Indigenous Americans. For them…at this point all POC, women, LGBTQ+, and non-Christians…understand that survival IS the goal since cruelty and hatred ALSO the point and we are at the center of the bull’s eye.
i am white. are we white folks so insecure that we’re worried that acknowledging and understanding, examining with a critical eye, the less glamorous aspects of America’s history will completely ruin us?
Although I want to throw up r/e tRump and his racist lackey’s actions, maybe a sliver of light is that more folk will read words like these and become (hopefully) enlightened about the serious damage being inflicted on our nation en masse.
“The only value any female has is to the man that buys her. If she’s not performing her slave duties to his liking - rape her & toss her out.” - Pig Hegseth, Elon Musk, JD Vance, DJT. All women are DEI, including those who vote maga.
Does anyone have a specific thing that I, can do? Like an actual, specific thing? Cause I basically just come read these articles, feel bad, text a few screenshots then go on with the day. If someone could give me an actual thing to do, I’d appreciate it. Voted for Kamala btw
I think this time segregation would help us grow faster as a people. We need our own...everything. To be truthful, I've never thought we needed yt people, so many really are 'dumb as bricks' yet we let them control our lives to our dismay and trauma. Black communities thrive when there are self-owned businesses. Like 'Black Wall Street,' our own banks, groceries, sm businesses, electric grids, hospitals, policing, farms/livestock...y'all get the picture. Our children won't have to be traumatized mentally or physically, by white hatred or undereducated. We could do this with a few seeds. I read about a family in the south that bought land to do this with. Even Jim Jones tried his hand at it. (Perhaps, if he had been black, there would have been a different outcome.) We helped build this nation and can certainly do that for ourselves. I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick and tired of yt people. If we survive this point in time, we have to make 'us' our priority. I don't have a clue as to how to do that tho...Perhaps we could darken up the Appalachians :(
It was hard to get through all of that without wanting to throw up. Such a well written essay, on such sickening things. Thanks for the education. I’ll definitely be a reader from here on out.
But back the truck up here. We have just been continuing on from his previous "Presidency". Trump took away women's rights especially to bodily autonomy; thanks to the "Lack of Supreme Court". Women's suppression and denial of health "care" caused death, breakage of female organs, bodily mutilation. (But now body mutilation for gender issues "must be stopped". Killed ONE MILLION AMERICANS during COVID-19. Black and Indigenous populations, economically insecure ... All impacted most! Trump and the GOP worked on DEI with anti WOKE , ANTI science (face masks cause COVID-19 and makes kids scared and socially phobic). And certainly 1/6 and the pack of lies has broken our nation. Don't believe your lying eyes. Really? Oh hell no! We never dealt with it as we should. Trump should have been arrested that day along with the 100+ GOP Congress insurrectionists, denying electoral college votes! Would we be here now with these monsters blowing our nation up?
Come on America … these shitbags are not going to continue to make us ridiculous to the rest of the world. The majority of us are not Orange SHitler dupes. The entirety of the Republican Party will pay for their complicity.
We will buck up and revolt - these motherfuckers .. ALL need to be tarred and feathered and paraded through the streets straight to the gallows. They deserve nothing less for selling out our country, for stealing, plundering, and pillaging from us who worked hard to make this country a place the world admired and wished to emulate. From stealing from us, our parents and grandparents and children and future generations!
Fuck em Fuck em all !!!! Motherfucking Bastards ..
I hope you plan to publish these essays as a collection. I learn from each one. People keep saying, 'history will show' or 'history will say' not realizing that history is written by the winners. And unless we make an effort to collect the history of this time, it will disappear into unaccessible archives just as the stories of these men did.
We must see to it that the story is told properly.
“Resegregation” should be the definitive description for this period in history. Based on history, Black people should be at war. The problem is that too many of our people have discounted history because they have succumbed to “post-racialism.”
I agree 100%. That single word really had power as I was reading this. People of color, primarily Black people, understand it more than anyone but possible the Indigenous Americans. For them…at this point all POC, women, LGBTQ+, and non-Christians…understand that survival IS the goal since cruelty and hatred ALSO the point and we are at the center of the bull’s eye.
Supporting work like Contraband Camp, ensures that true American history can never ever be erased. Good stuff!
i am white. are we white folks so insecure that we’re worried that acknowledging and understanding, examining with a critical eye, the less glamorous aspects of America’s history will completely ruin us?
Yes. They’re also afraid that black people will treat them the way they have treated black people.
Also, as someone once said, real ally-ship costs you something.
Although I want to throw up r/e tRump and his racist lackey’s actions, maybe a sliver of light is that more folk will read words like these and become (hopefully) enlightened about the serious damage being inflicted on our nation en masse.
Thank you
Perhaps the only thing more disturbing about this erasure is the realization that more than half of America voted (wants) to see this happen.
Writings like this serve as ammunition in the fight to keep us from being erased.
They're picking up where Andrew Johnson left off
“The only value any female has is to the man that buys her. If she’s not performing her slave duties to his liking - rape her & toss her out.” - Pig Hegseth, Elon Musk, JD Vance, DJT. All women are DEI, including those who vote maga.
Does anyone have a specific thing that I, can do? Like an actual, specific thing? Cause I basically just come read these articles, feel bad, text a few screenshots then go on with the day. If someone could give me an actual thing to do, I’d appreciate it. Voted for Kamala btw
Nicely framed.
White people don’t often talk about our accrued wealth after centuries of free labor and free land.
The country with the closest similar history is probably South Africa from whence sprang Elon Musk.
Thus it is hard to identify and organize with other White people who grasp the breadth and depth of the wrong.
Similar to the former South Africa..
Another black poet observed that by now America’s past time is mostly sports and forgetting.
All of which is to commend you for asking the question, and don’t stop there!
We have found like-minded folks scattered here and there in Quakerism, and that is a start.
But only a start.
I think this time segregation would help us grow faster as a people. We need our own...everything. To be truthful, I've never thought we needed yt people, so many really are 'dumb as bricks' yet we let them control our lives to our dismay and trauma. Black communities thrive when there are self-owned businesses. Like 'Black Wall Street,' our own banks, groceries, sm businesses, electric grids, hospitals, policing, farms/livestock...y'all get the picture. Our children won't have to be traumatized mentally or physically, by white hatred or undereducated. We could do this with a few seeds. I read about a family in the south that bought land to do this with. Even Jim Jones tried his hand at it. (Perhaps, if he had been black, there would have been a different outcome.) We helped build this nation and can certainly do that for ourselves. I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick and tired of yt people. If we survive this point in time, we have to make 'us' our priority. I don't have a clue as to how to do that tho...Perhaps we could darken up the Appalachians :(
It was hard to get through all of that without wanting to throw up. Such a well written essay, on such sickening things. Thanks for the education. I’ll definitely be a reader from here on out.
But back the truck up here. We have just been continuing on from his previous "Presidency". Trump took away women's rights especially to bodily autonomy; thanks to the "Lack of Supreme Court". Women's suppression and denial of health "care" caused death, breakage of female organs, bodily mutilation. (But now body mutilation for gender issues "must be stopped". Killed ONE MILLION AMERICANS during COVID-19. Black and Indigenous populations, economically insecure ... All impacted most! Trump and the GOP worked on DEI with anti WOKE , ANTI science (face masks cause COVID-19 and makes kids scared and socially phobic). And certainly 1/6 and the pack of lies has broken our nation. Don't believe your lying eyes. Really? Oh hell no! We never dealt with it as we should. Trump should have been arrested that day along with the 100+ GOP Congress insurrectionists, denying electoral college votes! Would we be here now with these monsters blowing our nation up?
I keep saying this former and present administration’s end goal is enslavement.
Come on America … these shitbags are not going to continue to make us ridiculous to the rest of the world. The majority of us are not Orange SHitler dupes. The entirety of the Republican Party will pay for their complicity.
We will buck up and revolt - these motherfuckers .. ALL need to be tarred and feathered and paraded through the streets straight to the gallows. They deserve nothing less for selling out our country, for stealing, plundering, and pillaging from us who worked hard to make this country a place the world admired and wished to emulate. From stealing from us, our parents and grandparents and children and future generations!
Fuck em Fuck em all !!!! Motherfucking Bastards ..
I agree with the observation that people swear when they feel helpless.
Let’s not practice feeling helpless more than we have to.
This makes me sick. So tragic! tRump was, is and will remain a POS racist, criminal, thief and liar. I'm sorry.