I grew up in southern California and enjoyed the history of the amazing state. Many decisions and outcomes were not good but one important matter is that California was never a slave state. I grew up in Riverside, always an ethnically diverse city partly because of its agricultural importance, the railroad, and the Santa Ana River. (Now nothing but a whisper in its concrete walls) Nothing irks me more than misrepresenting the history of California by bowing to fake virtue signaling. As horrendous as slavery was, California was a free state: people (black, white, latino, Chinese, Japanese) came to because it offered so
many opportunities. Stop with the fake virtue signaling. Take care of the real history and California's people.
We are on the same page. It is odious to taint the history of a FREE STATE with liability for slavery. As you allude and I state, California was a magnet for antebellum free blacks. We dishonor our ancestors when we revise and edit the past.
I grew up in southern California and enjoyed the history of the amazing state. Many decisions and outcomes were not good but one important matter is that California was never a slave state. I grew up in Riverside, always an ethnically diverse city partly because of its agricultural importance, the railroad, and the Santa Ana River. (Now nothing but a whisper in its concrete walls) Nothing irks me more than misrepresenting the history of California by bowing to fake virtue signaling. As horrendous as slavery was, California was a free state: people (black, white, latino, Chinese, Japanese) came to because it offered so
many opportunities. Stop with the fake virtue signaling. Take care of the real history and California's people.
We are on the same page. It is odious to taint the history of a FREE STATE with liability for slavery. As you allude and I state, California was a magnet for antebellum free blacks. We dishonor our ancestors when we revise and edit the past.