"In the 80s, the American public had a much more rudimentary understanding of colonialism’s dependence on racism than it does today. But even kids in high school knew that apartheid was wrong, and famine was wrong."
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I’m old enough to remember in 9th grade Social Studies every week there would be a news article on apartheid we would cover & discuss! Everyone of my classmates was well versed in the oppression of Apartheid & roles of de Klerk & Mandela & everyone of us sided with Mandela & Bishop Tutu!
“Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king.” Who benefits from this? Dictatorships.
Watch what happens to the next generation as books are banned, history rewritten and the past forgotten. I feel sorry for young people today whose educations will be less than enough in both information and ability to make decisions. It goes together. Past is prologue.
Tomorrow is the one day event. A lot of us are expanding that. Many folks are talking about a week through March 7. My family is going to try it through March 28. We will purchase fuel to get back-and-forth to work. But that’s it if we need anything else we will barter.
Protests do work, sometimes may look like failures in the short term, but much of the power of protests is in their long-term effects, on both the protesters themselves and the rest of society. Speaking out helps and feels good. 💙
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I learned about Apartheid in the 1970s.
Also learned about famine then.
Also learned about climate change.
To my mind, there are no excuses other than willful ignorance.