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If they had not, they would have been less intelligent than my dog. Of course, they did. Only racists who think the Blacks are inherently inferior would think otherwise

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Some influencers never perceive the humanity in Black Americans. Humanity, the desire for self-improvement, knows no race. And I thank you for your comment.

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Thank you for your comment. For too may people, their political agenda overrides actual facts. An ingrained political bias is not significantly ingrained religious bias. In both case, the viewer's preconceived beliefs dictate how his mind interprets (often deletes) what his sees. If you anti-Jewish, they only notice the bad Jews. If they want to gain power by declaring Blacks are oppressed, and in need of their help, Blacks as a group become uni-dimensional victims. This biased belief in Black helplessness is yet another tragedy for Blacks to overcome. How many young white people remember that with MLK Freedom and We Shall Over Come were the hallmark of American Blacks? I inserted "white" because I believe that wokeism is mostly of White creation, another take of the Plantation Mentality. The premise on which Wokeism is based is that because Blacks as group cannot achieve and overcome, they need white leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom to protect them.

We should not shy away from our history and destroy the confederate monuments because they are not only symbols of the False Narrative, but they are bench marks to Blacks overcoming. Life is not dichotomous. The False Narrative served a good social purpose to try to re-unite the South with the North, but over 100 years ago, when we thought that was a good plan, we now can see its terrible flaw, i.e. it tried banish the evil of slavery and pretend the Civil War was a war to defend "Southern Honor."

Now that those monuments are gone we missed a great opportunity for communities across America especially in the South, to repurpose the statutes within their proper context. There is nothing historical about not repurposing all the monuments. Hiding them museums and warehouses is a denial of history's complexity and that while society may think it is doing some good, it also is doing something harmful. It also removes an important opportunity to remind everyone Blacks have overcome.

Wokeism is a new False Narrative about Blacks, suspiciously similar to The Plantation Mentality that Blacks are hapless victims.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Winkfield Twyman

I love that you read all the Florida Curriculum.

I had heard some very good things about it and was also impressed.

I really like all the small stories that you told about people, who had been enslaved.

I love people's stories. We each have one...

...so all those you told helped me love each one of them as an individual.

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Thanks for your comment. I appreciate the appreciation/smile!

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