It's hard for a drunk to say "I'm a stinking drunk." Admit, repent, ask for forgiveness,make amends and go about being a better, descent human being. America is a stinking drunk racist joke. Its addictive, compulsive, behavior of stink history 🦨 is there in the books 📚. It's a sin that it will not confess, repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of. So they sell trump Bibles, post commandments on the bulletin board at school and lay collective "HANDS" in prayer on Donald Trump, the man of god, the man of the hour.⏳Why bother to explain? "Deny, deny, deny." Thanks again Mr. Spivey. Keep the record straight.🇺🇸
It is not hard to teach ... oh, I believe in the dignity of all people regardless of their foreparents, ethnic origin, and even their chosen religion, except if that chosen religion leads the person to treat others without dignity. I am white and have lived in Virginia and Tennessee. I have been in California for over 50 years and taught secondary students for 41 years. I learned in my 4th-grade class from Mrs. Matthews about slavery in Virginia.
I imagine for racists, teaching the truth about slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the internment of citizens of Japanese descent, the Jewish, Armenian, and other holocausts is as difficult for religious fundamentalists to have their children sit in biology classes where evolution is taught and creation science is mythology with no scientific basis or in English classes where their children might have to read Bless Me Ultima (Ultima is accused of being a witch--she isn't), Huckleberry Finn, or the Color Purple.
People who live with hard-core beliefs based on untruths, ignorance, and prejudice have no desire to learn or have their children learn. I saw this too often during my years of teaching in Santa Clara, the heart of Santa Clara County -- in the Santa Clara Valley, which the world calls Silicon Valley--an hour south of San Francisco. This area is relatively progressive in temperament and belief. I cannot imagine trying to teach in a red state, which rejects truth as being woke, and fights to perpetuate a system that keeps their states poor and, according to national exams, more ignorant than blue states.
I think theres alot to say when it comes to white ppl and accountability and skewing the narrative for their gain. Let's be honest the only reason why that woman tried to get forgiveness is because she didn't want that narrative behind her. And she couldn't get the public behind her so she stopped, that wasn't actual solidarity it was a press run to make her seem less bad. If u can't skew the narrative and white wash it for ur benifet there's no reason other reason to be fighting this cause. If u even thought it was a cause to begin with... And when we talk about the ppl who "fight" along side us... Is it b/c they actually think this is wrong and want solidarity? or is it b/c they know their family has been racist and they are just trying to remove themselves from that narrative. Not decolonizing their ancestry. Or even, acknowledging it and moving with that, like yeah my family did that. They want to hide the ppl they were. To white wash the history coz they don't wanna be seen as the monsters they are. Coz 400 years plus Jim crow and segregation... You say "go back to Africa" but yall brought us here to till the land and raise ur babies? Like did you forget? It's actually mind boggling the way they move.
We have far too many- and seemingly an ever growing number- of people in this country who, fueled by their deeply flawed but never questioned upbringings, rigid dogmatic religious beliefs, and trump's hateful rhetoric/fox "news"/right wingnut media who are feeling "empowered", emboldened, and vociferously whining that they don't want to be made to question themselves, admit wrong, feel guilty, or make any changes.
There are greater numbers of people loudly screaming "i'm right!" and not enough saying "What can I do to improve myself, my children, society, and the country?" It's not a good look on the u.s.
William, I would love to read your take on the book The Trees by Percival Everett. I read read it twice in a row a few months back (🤯) and then, by pure chance, I took Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon off the shelf. There's a link there and your uppercut to the chin essay here reminds of it. I am curious to see a perspective other than my own or to know if others find it similarly inspiring.
It's hard for a drunk to say "I'm a stinking drunk." Admit, repent, ask for forgiveness,make amends and go about being a better, descent human being. America is a stinking drunk racist joke. Its addictive, compulsive, behavior of stink history 🦨 is there in the books 📚. It's a sin that it will not confess, repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of. So they sell trump Bibles, post commandments on the bulletin board at school and lay collective "HANDS" in prayer on Donald Trump, the man of god, the man of the hour.⏳Why bother to explain? "Deny, deny, deny." Thanks again Mr. Spivey. Keep the record straight.🇺🇸
It is not hard to teach ... oh, I believe in the dignity of all people regardless of their foreparents, ethnic origin, and even their chosen religion, except if that chosen religion leads the person to treat others without dignity. I am white and have lived in Virginia and Tennessee. I have been in California for over 50 years and taught secondary students for 41 years. I learned in my 4th-grade class from Mrs. Matthews about slavery in Virginia.
I imagine for racists, teaching the truth about slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the internment of citizens of Japanese descent, the Jewish, Armenian, and other holocausts is as difficult for religious fundamentalists to have their children sit in biology classes where evolution is taught and creation science is mythology with no scientific basis or in English classes where their children might have to read Bless Me Ultima (Ultima is accused of being a witch--she isn't), Huckleberry Finn, or the Color Purple.
People who live with hard-core beliefs based on untruths, ignorance, and prejudice have no desire to learn or have their children learn. I saw this too often during my years of teaching in Santa Clara, the heart of Santa Clara County -- in the Santa Clara Valley, which the world calls Silicon Valley--an hour south of San Francisco. This area is relatively progressive in temperament and belief. I cannot imagine trying to teach in a red state, which rejects truth as being woke, and fights to perpetuate a system that keeps their states poor and, according to national exams, more ignorant than blue states.
I think theres alot to say when it comes to white ppl and accountability and skewing the narrative for their gain. Let's be honest the only reason why that woman tried to get forgiveness is because she didn't want that narrative behind her. And she couldn't get the public behind her so she stopped, that wasn't actual solidarity it was a press run to make her seem less bad. If u can't skew the narrative and white wash it for ur benifet there's no reason other reason to be fighting this cause. If u even thought it was a cause to begin with... And when we talk about the ppl who "fight" along side us... Is it b/c they actually think this is wrong and want solidarity? or is it b/c they know their family has been racist and they are just trying to remove themselves from that narrative. Not decolonizing their ancestry. Or even, acknowledging it and moving with that, like yeah my family did that. They want to hide the ppl they were. To white wash the history coz they don't wanna be seen as the monsters they are. Coz 400 years plus Jim crow and segregation... You say "go back to Africa" but yall brought us here to till the land and raise ur babies? Like did you forget? It's actually mind boggling the way they move.
We have far too many- and seemingly an ever growing number- of people in this country who, fueled by their deeply flawed but never questioned upbringings, rigid dogmatic religious beliefs, and trump's hateful rhetoric/fox "news"/right wingnut media who are feeling "empowered", emboldened, and vociferously whining that they don't want to be made to question themselves, admit wrong, feel guilty, or make any changes.
There are greater numbers of people loudly screaming "i'm right!" and not enough saying "What can I do to improve myself, my children, society, and the country?" It's not a good look on the u.s.
William, I would love to read your take on the book The Trees by Percival Everett. I read read it twice in a row a few months back (🤯) and then, by pure chance, I took Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon off the shelf. There's a link there and your uppercut to the chin essay here reminds of it. I am curious to see a perspective other than my own or to know if others find it similarly inspiring.
I’ll check it out!