This June 19th date is so significant, it can't be over-stated. What had been since the early 1600's in the American colonies that started in Virginia was now over for all time going forward. No more slaves...anywhere in America. But that was just the beginning of a process that we are still wrestling with. The emotional aspect of slaver…
This June 19th date is so significant, it can't be over-stated. What had been since the early 1600's in the American colonies that started in Virginia was now over for all time going forward. No more slaves...anywhere in America. But that was just the beginning of a process that we are still wrestling with. The emotional aspect of slavery that made it possible to justify was that white folks were better than...smarter and created to control black folks who were born to serve. They were actually doing black folks a favor by bringing them here and exposing them to our Bible. Bobby Lee was supposed to be the "savior". He would vanquish the "damn Yankees". Buy it didn't turn out that way. Life in the south was turned upside down by Abe Lincoln...US Grant...Sherman & Sheridan. So now 160 years later some of us, are still hanging on to ideas that our ancestors believed and acted on for over 200 years. Slaves good. Still rallying around statues to dead Confederates and their battle flag...and calling it "Heritage...not Hate" on bumper stickers. That's what we are dealing with here. The idea that white folks with Bibles were born to rule.
And republicans are believers, 109%, and the biggest fools, by proving every day that they are anything but superior. Just reference the Tex Repub “platform of hate,” meant primarily to ensnare the Pharisees among us.
This June 19th date is so significant, it can't be over-stated. What had been since the early 1600's in the American colonies that started in Virginia was now over for all time going forward. No more slaves...anywhere in America. But that was just the beginning of a process that we are still wrestling with. The emotional aspect of slavery that made it possible to justify was that white folks were better than...smarter and created to control black folks who were born to serve. They were actually doing black folks a favor by bringing them here and exposing them to our Bible. Bobby Lee was supposed to be the "savior". He would vanquish the "damn Yankees". Buy it didn't turn out that way. Life in the south was turned upside down by Abe Lincoln...US Grant...Sherman & Sheridan. So now 160 years later some of us, are still hanging on to ideas that our ancestors believed and acted on for over 200 years. Slaves good. Still rallying around statues to dead Confederates and their battle flag...and calling it "Heritage...not Hate" on bumper stickers. That's what we are dealing with here. The idea that white folks with Bibles were born to rule.
And republicans are believers, 109%, and the biggest fools, by proving every day that they are anything but superior. Just reference the Tex Repub “platform of hate,” meant primarily to ensnare the Pharisees among us.