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Mark Monday's avatar

This was a very interesting post to read! Really appreciated it. The history was fascinating to me.

Now you've gone and inspired me to order one of those 23&Me kits. I've been avoiding doing it for for a few years, for some reason.

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Rick Abrams's avatar

The very serious problem which has befallen present day wokers is the insistence that all white people have unjust privilege because Blacks were treated poorly. Blacks are about 14% of the population and it is absurd to assert that bad treatment of 14% is what made the other 86% wealthy. Of course, the other 85% is not wealthy. The moral evil which most current wokers, e.g. The 1619 Project, bring to us is the idea that Whites were only oppressors. They focus on Thomas Jefferson's owning slaves and totally discount the Dec of Indepen which he expressly worded to end slavery. One does not find any acknowledgement that it was White men alone who laid the foundation to end slavery. They did not do it in the Declaration for the same reason American Blacks have not rooted out all predatory behavior in their own community. Some laudable goals are not achievable at a particular time and place. Wokers present a simplistic and racist faux history which always ends up with "Give us Money."

The wokers are bringing a nasty backlash which will result in a deep red Congress after the Nov 2022. The wokers can cry racism all they want, but it will only elect more right wing GOP to office. In MLK's dream, Blacks were not attacking Whites. BTW, Juneteenth day is NOT about equality. It is about Freedom. Freedom and equality are immiscible. We can have equality by simply allowing everyone to be enslaved. I do not recall the salves in Galveston Texas on June 19th yelling for the Whites to become slaves just like thr Blacks so that they would all be equal.

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