I wrote this a few years ago. My hope is, some will take a minute to read it.
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I didn't meet many locals, but there were some people who would never think of themselves as racist, but were.
Proud of you! It's so hard to change what we were raised to believe.
She's a Greensboro native.
The south was the agricultural center, the north, the industrial. One couldn’t have survived without the other. Lincoln knew this.
And if we’ve learned anything, it’s that bigotry and racism are not confined to the south. Exorcising the south wouldn’t have fixed anything.
I heard this kind of crap from classmates in Mississippi, where I grew up, but was never deceived into believing.
Thank you for writing it 💙✨🇺🇸
Namastè,
Master Coach Hu
Thank you for reading.
You’re welcome. I found it interesting to read.
Thank you for taking the time to read it
PS. May I DM you about sharing your/our story('s)?❤️🔥🌏😇
Some of my ancestors were enslaved as chattel in the US, considered less than human (3/5 of a person for a time), and worse.
I appreciate your introspection, reflection, courage, and dedication to acknowledge, admit, and share these truths.
Here’s something from someone whose work I wish more knew about in 2016.
Timothy Snyder
Of course it’s a coup
https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
🎄🎅🏼🧑🏻🎄💟✝️🕎☮️☯️
❤️🤍💙🗽🇺🇸
Tom Jones:
‘Did Trouble Me’
Official Music Video
https://youtu.be/yQFWUHBbpqs?si=WJonF8tL5pO2G1rh
Thanks for reading my post.
That rang so true to me!
And you have a wonderful way with words!
I loved GWTW, I thought there were no black folks in my town. I learned in school that the Civil War was not about slavery. I did not learn that most of our Founding Fathers owned people. So no animosity, but deep misinfo.
It’s true the choices one makes once exposed to truth. Not all are brave and comforted in their apathy.
Thank you for being brave so others can follow your example.
What this country did/is doing to the Indigenous Peoples is another horrendous chapter in the story of our nation.
🙈🙉🙊
So damn true 💥
It isn’t just southerners, unfortunately. The People’s History of The United States should be required middle school reading country wide. It touches on many “whitewashed” histories covering up truth.
Like you, I have spent my entire adult life trying to eradicate any of that ancestrally-tainted blood from my being.
European by choice.
Thanks for writing this. It is important.
"People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another." - Rumi
Fascism thrives by continually expanding its definition of “the other" and shift blame to them.
Created an entire blog about decolonizing, non-dualism, fascism - only to find out that getting people to look at it / take time to read, was the real challenge 😳
I won't give up.
sharing✨
I grew up in Minnesota and went to University in Wisconsin.
From there I moved to Dallas TX.
The culture shock I went through, the things I saw that I had previously only read about in school. It was like walking back in time, so dug in was the racism. Sadly still is.
(To young people reading this, this was the pre-internet era.)
Can I show y'all a really awful homeschool textbook? I found it at a booth for sons of the Confederacy at an event at a Cherokee Museum.
American History for Home Schools, 1607 to 1885, with a Focus on Our Civil War
https://www.tennesseescv.org/uploads/1/3/6/5/136584498/american_history_for_home_schools_1607-1885.pdf
I love your writing and it’s great to realize you are here!
https://legacysites.eji.org/
Think of how all our lives would be altered if we didn't use inaccurate human descriptors? Beige vs. White? Bronze vs. Black? Patriarchal surnames? Et cetera. 🧑🦼🇺🇸💙