I am A WOMAN BLACK AFRICAN AND ALSO AMERICAN WITH MY FAMILY ROOTS DEEPLY

[Heather MC]

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Embedded In the Southern Mountains of Virginia Since the 1700's. Well that's as far back as ancestry.com is able to trace my line so far on both my parents sides.

Not that I speak for the entire African American community. Nor can I, however I am a black woman.
And I've been around for quite a few decades not to long a respectable amount, almost 50 years.(48)

I came from a town that was comfortably openly racist even towards kindergarten children in Southern Virginia. They didn't call us the N-word in the eighties, But even as a four-year-old I understood the subtle racism we were living under. There was a clear racial divide in the town between where the black people lived, and rather white people resided. And even at 4 years old that's what it felt like, they allowed us to live in their presence in a very specific area. And so we grew up calling that "the white area" and our side of town was the black side town. And I knew about the stories of how the public pools got closed after they made integration legal. Because the powerful white people of the town didn't want to allow black people in their pools. Because when I was growing up I played in a park, Riverside Park, that held a never forgotten relic of Segregations past in Lynchburg VA. What IS left, was filled with dirt and grass growing over The former "White People Pool". However even today The evidence of segregations past still lives in that park. As a gentle whisper of a reminder to all of us, if they want to, "When we choose to, we can do it again."

And to their credit they didn't lie about it. They closed the pool to keep the black people out of it. When you grow up in a town with casual relics of racism laying around like that. You grow up observing racism your entire life Beginning at the age of 4 years old, for me.

My grandmother was a teacher in the town for 31 years. During segregation she taught at the black high school. That high school has etched in Stone DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL. It's still there even today. However, by the time I came along in 74.. The town had decided Dunbar high school was only worthy to be a high school to black kids. And now that school is a middle school instead. When you're a child learning to read and you're told the building is a middle school but what's etched in stone is high school. You find out why when you ask. And again it's Another subtle reminder that they get to decide whether our buildings are middle schools or high schools. And they get to allow us to always remember during integration we downgraded your school to just a middle school. It didn't deserve being a high school like the other 2 high schools that got to remain in that town.

I say all that to say this. When I look at the 2 parties. Democratic versus Republican party. I make my decision based on their ideologies. Not the people necessarily running for the open positions. Don't get me wrong they have importance. Let's face it progressive democrats are the future.💜

However, just looking at the 2 party ideologies I can't help but notice something. Something, I only recently realized, that I've been noticing since I was 4 years old. I can't help but notice that 1 party is a choice of freedom that we the people as a majority keep making over and over and over since Gore V Bush. And the other party keeps bending back to 1776 when only one minority group was able to speak for everyone.

And that is why I say the Republican party is a pro slavery party. And if we started honestly having that conversation about that party in that way.. We as a country would never be swayed by the Republican bullshit to make us believe that they are anything more than wanna-be slave owners again.

And so when I use the word SLAVERY, when I called the Republican party the pro slavery party. It is only because of what I have seen over the last 50 years. And the information that I have read and consumed. And all the history this country told us was so important for us to learn and so I did I love to learn about history.

And even when you hear them say "this is our 1776ers moment". There's a huge amount of republicans foaming at the mouth To drag this country kicking and screaming back to 1776.

I mean do you honestly think if they take away women's rights successfully. They will just stop there.

MY husband is white. The year he was born this country made biracial marriage legal in My Beautiful State of Virginia. And around the country. And right now the only thing keeping our marriage legal is the thought that maybe Clarence Thomas won't take away that right from us because he also has a white wife.

And to be perfectly honest with you I don't believe that's enough of a reason for a man like Clarence Thomas not to vote to get rid of my marriage.

And if they get a chance to do that. Do you think they will stop there?🤷🏾‍♀️


It is incumbent upon us to stop lying about what the Republican party is and what their ultimate agendas are. Listen to them when they say the 1950s was the best of America. Absolutely, for white men. They had women they could beat, maids they could rape, They had all the jobs. They had all the opportunity to make all the decisions. For the rest of us. They could even murder a young man like Emmett till, and then come on national TV after getting acquitted and tell the world what they did with a smile on their faces.

And that's what the republicans want us to do they want to drag us back to the 1950s with this facade of happiness because the white man was on top of everything.

And my saying that, people will call me the racist. Even though every word I just typed was 100% TRUTH

Do you agree?
That of course is your right to choose.
I Will just say this, I've lived too Damn long to start telling lies now💜

I gratefully ask one thing, If you decide to share what I have written with others please leave my name out of it. This country has a history of killing the messenger. And literally telling my life story puts my life in danger. Respect me enough as an unknown mother black American, WOMAN.

To choose to help me, protect my family.
Thank you
💜

[live love laugh]

1. The Pro Slavery Party label is absolutely fitting.

Except today, they want everyone to slave under impossible wages and to be beholden to them.

Fuck them.

EDITED TO ADD: I’m also from southern VA. I am a proud, black hill billy because some of the most kind and humble people I’ve known were in VA.

[Heather MC]

2. Cool WE Cousins💜💜💜

The republicans are petrified because they cannot overcome a 7 million vote deficit. So instead they decided to agitate our economy raise the gas prices on the hopes. People will blame Joe Biden

We've seen this before they did it to Jimmy Carter and it worked. And look at Joe Biden's approval ratings even though a lot of his policies are amazing. My family just got Verizon fios for $49 flat fee. That's thanks to the affordable connectivity plan.

I was able to get 2 free T-Mobile phones that are free for life for life free for life as long as I use the phones. And here's where even Donald Trump helped with that I had to prove that I individually made less than $80000. Well the pandemic shut down my fitness business so yeah last year I only made 8000
Don't worry my family doesn't struggle we're good my kids are well fed. However I was able to show you the income and I got 2 free phones I got one for me and my oldest son also had I W2 from working last summer. And I can use those phones however I like.

So my family agreed that we'll use them as a business line it's lying because I'm rebuilding my fitness business again. I think that's a story people should hear about Joe bide and not the gas bullshit but even democratic media doesn't point out the good things because In our society complaining is all we ever listen to because that's all our media told us to listen to.

You can't even say a nice thing about a president to someone who doesn't like them.

Notice how when the gas prices have started to come down they don't mention Joe Biden at all🤷🏾‍♀️

[live love laugh]

3. Yes "Cuz" I noticed.

We’re thinking along the same lines — especially when you point out the collusion between the media and “special interests” against the majority. There’s literally a war being waged on us by the minority party.

I love Joe Biden because of his character, his sacrifice and dedication to public service and his unequalled experience. Nobody deserves being President more. We have to stop relying on the Media and start forming the Bedia: Us … communicating facts within our circles of influence.

[Heather MC]

4. Agreed!

Yeah we're definitely cousins, you're too smart not to be my blood🤣🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜💜

[Heather MC]

5. Agreed!

Yeah we're definitely cousins, you're too smart not to be my blood🤣🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜💜

[calimary]

20. This!

I hate the way the media beats up on Biden all the time. There is no such thing as a perfect President. But he comes a lot closer than most.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. We need competition, not conglomeration, of media.

[brer cat]

6. I agree. Great post, Heather.

[Heather MC]

14. 💜

[Sewa]

7. Thank you for relating your personal life

Experience. 💀🤙

[Heather MC]

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[Heather MC]

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[KS Toronado]

8. Fascist Party label works for me

because all Fascist groups are pro-slavery. Nice truths BTW.

[Heather MC]

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[Heather MC]

51. The problem with the fascist label, is not everyone understands

Just like people have never picked up on the fact that every time the Republican says we are Republic
Their definition is the minority rules of majority. It's just a cute way of saying they're pro slavery without using the word.

We shouldn't shy away from calling them exactly exactly what, they are. Republican ideology ideology is pro slavery


People done associate fascist with slavery. I mean they're horrible don't get me wrong
But fascism and slavery are not necessarily early hand-in-hand.

Calling them what they are the pro slavery party, every party, keeps it clear, And extremely accurate

[Tetrachloride]

9. In the 2 part TV series Separate But Equal

Mr Patterson , aide and driver to Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren relates an anecdote of the value of high ground from his combat experience in Italy of World War 2.

The series is a condensed / consolidated version of the various legal cases.

We don’t win by letting crap happen.

Stories, law, media front and center, election “safety “ is our elephant to control.

ty for your story

[Heather MC]

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[Heather MC]

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[slightlv]

10. I live in Kansas

In our little town, we had a street named "Division St." so there could be no mistakes. There was an a K-3 elementary school right on that street. There was a 4-6 Elementary school 3 blocks west. I lived one block to the south of Division street. My whole childhood I went to these schools, and then to the Junior/Senior high school (one single school) with everyone I went to elementary school with. These were my playmates while I was growing up. We met after school on the playgrounds; we rode bikes together as we grew up. Yes, people looked askance at us as we got older and I had to be "schooled" in what the soft racism of the day meant. This was the late 50's and early 60's. But this was my childhood and I wouldn't have traded it for anything anyone else had. I mean, sure... there were a lot of richer folk the further south of town; the further west of town you went. But damn... we had FUN. We had to make it ourselves, none of us had any money. But what we did didn't take money. We had our imaginations!

Met a few of these old school mates of mine at one of the past reunions a few years past. Some of them, like me, had gone into the military. A few, unlike me, had made a career of it. All of them were good democrats and all of them hoped for the same things I did... a nice, quiet place to settle into with family and retire in a live and let live environment. We started that as kids way back when; we carried that through our entire lives; we voted that with every vote we cast; and we're still fighting for it today.

[Tetrachloride]

15. There's a Division Street in my original hometown

i will ask a friend if there’s a reason.

[Heather MC]

18. Pretty much every decision from a certain point in this country the reason was to maintain the divid

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[Heather MC]

19. 💜

Wow this is beautiful you have touched my heart tonight thank you💜

[NBachers]

16. Thank you, Heather MC. I went along with you in every word you wrote. I agree with The Slavery Party

I always thought our work would lead us onward and upward. We can't allow the republicans to ruin this great nation of ours more than they already have.

[Heather MC]

17. 💜

[multigraincracker]

21. Nothing like beautiful grand kids with pretty

curly hair and a beautiful tan complexion to make a racist think.

Great post.

[DUgosh]

22. Thank you for this post

What a great post! Thanks!

[Heather MC]

28. 💜

How Kind, Thank You.

[vlyons]

23. I understand that you see racism through the lens of racism

However, I see it through the lens of economics. There were a lot of poor hard-scrabble white folks in 1776 and throughout our history that were despised and kept down in dreadful low-paying jobs. Incapable of doing more that a few years of school, if that. Working 12, 18 hr days to buy a crust of bread. Working in coal mines and other physically dangerous jobs. Living in squallor.

And yes, racism is certainly a component. But it is the patrician oligarchs, who are keeping us down. The racist bit is their rationale to easily identify whose labor they steal. Slavery has been around forever. Ancient peoples used slaves to steal their labor. Who do you think built all those Roman aquaducts and villas? Why were the serfs of Europe tied to the land of the nobles. To steal their labor.

[Heather MC]

24. Are you trying to justify American slavery to me because that's the only way white men...

Since the Roman Era could conceive of getting they wet dreams built into monuments?

And if you read my words and you heard me referring to " )all white men" then that is the Flagrant disregard for the words I actually. As I specifically pointed out it's the ones who refer to themselves TODAY, as the 1776ers. If that doesn't apply to you dear, then don't try to wear those shoes. Understand?

[vlyons]

31. Don't treat me like an enemy just because I see things differently

asking me if I'm trying to justify slavery is insulting.

[Heather MC]

32. YOU WROTE ...

" Ancient peoples used slaves to steal their labor. Who do you think built all those Roman aquaducts and villas?"

Pardon me if I misinterpreted, but it certainly sounded to me as if you're implying slavery must exist, For white men to get big buildings built🤔

[vlyons]

43. No what I was saying was that ancient people in power used slaves from all over the world for free

The Vikings were big slave traders. Took people they captured down the Danube to the Black Sea and sold them into the markets of the Silk road. Romans enslaved people from Gaul, Briton, Spain, Germany, north and west Africa.

Why do people want to capture and enslave other people in the first place? To steal their labor. That is THEIR RATIONALE. Make them do the hard and dangerous work in the fields, quarry stone, iron, tin, build roads and bridges, construct their villas and temples. Domestic servants to tend to their every need. Cook their food, wash their clothes, babysit their kids, clean the house.

Russian serfs were bought and sold also, even tho they were the same "race" as their masters.

"Race" is not biological; it's cultural. When the Irish came here fleeing the potato famine, Americans saw them as an inferior race, but they were just as white as the resident whites. The poor whites were afraid that the immigrant Irish would steal their jobs.

I'm 75. I grew up in the south. I went to segregated schools until I got to college. And even there, blacks and Hispanics were few and far between. The state university was not segregated by law, but economically college was unaffordable for most blacks and Hispanics. And that was back when a semester tuition was $125.

Well the oligarchs are still hell-bent on stealing our labor. Perhaps you've heard the expression "wage slave?" They fight like hell to break unions and refuse to raise wages to a living wage.

It's not only just about race, altho race is a handy way for racists to identify whom to exploit and to make themselves feel superior. I only say that I see the economic element inherent in racism.

[Heather MC]

44. 💜

I appreciate what you're saying however I don't understand why you feel the need to say (not just black people)

Obviously my comments are specifically about America. Yes this country has mistreated everyone however, who has always been in control? Wealthy white men. And we have always been under their thumb. They have given themselves the authority to believe because they have wealth they deserve power over us.

And your incessant desire to play the whataboutism game and point out slavery throughout the entire world, completely diminishes my point whether that was your intention or not. Your words come off as I'm going to cancel out everything you just said by saying ""it's happened to others"🤷🏾‍♀️

Other countries past history have no bearing on our future and what I mean by that is this.

The bloodline of those 1776ers still runs deep throughout this country. And we still feel the sting of the decisions they force the all of us to live with.

That includes the Japanese people who lost their property because of World War II and the government throwing families into internment camps. And when they came out of those camps and they went back to their white neighbors to purchase their lands back. They're white neighbors raised the price on the price of their land to the point that they couldn't even afford to buy it back.

Yes that includes all the laborers that came from foreign countries looking for a new start no matter the color of their skin. And still had to fight through mistreatment and lies in order to survive here.

I'm even today in this country for some unknown reason the prison population is 95% black even though both black-and-white people commit crimes and roughly the same statistical. So no slavery never ended in this country it got moved to the prison system.

Do you see do you see that America still punishes Africans for being here. Even though we are thriving rich rich culturally inclusive inclusive community. There is a swath of wealthy white people that would still rather see us in chains come then in the White House As the 1st female president of the United States. Or imagine and all black Supreme Court.

Those are the features that they fear what happens to them. When those of us that toil to build this country finally remove them from power and take our rightful places owners of this country that we that we gave our blood and lives for. And the 1st people to draw blood for this country we're the black women that were raped on the ships On the way to being captives.

Of course every race has slaves but don't dare to presume that they are in any way what this country does to Africans frequence even today

And perhaps you need that apologetic idea to make yourself feel better because you are and they had the opportunity in 1776.

But if I can speak to you as a man of today in 2022 then surely you can understand you don't need to drag up unnecessary comparisons. In an attempt to make American slavery a little bit more palatable for your taste buds.

[vlyons]

45. I never said I was cancelling out your opinion or life experience

The cancelling bit and "whataboutism" label is coming from your mind, not mine. I've been fighting racism since my early teens in the 1960s. So show some respect and stop implying that I don't understand your feelings or that my seeing it in economic terms is invalid and unimportant. Looking at racism from an economic perspective is hardly unneccesary and unimportant. Nothing you have written has convinced me that stealing labor is and always has been /at the root of racism. At this point, I've expressed my view, and you can like it or lump it. I don't care.

[Heather MC]

46. The fact that you don't even understand the words you are speaking speaks volumes.

May I ask why you felt the need to give a history of slavery around the world? When I was specifically talking about America? And the Africans that they held in captivity and continue to subjugate all the way up to 2022 with their 13th amendment law that makes slavery legal in prison systems. Which means our people are still in captivity.

I'm not sure how that compares to potato famine Irish people, Or what The Vikings did🤷🏾‍♀️🤔

How does any of that relate to American Slavery? Except to justify why it happened in America because it happened before.

[vlyons]

47. "you don't even understand the words you are speaking"

yet another insult.

[Heather MC]

50. I'm not insulting you, I'm simply not lying to you.

And as I said, your WORDS that you speak.
I did not attack your character in any way.

Do you understand?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. Don't do this.

There were a lot of poor hard-scrabble white folks in 1776 and throughout our history that were despised and kept down in dreadful low-paying jobs. Incapable of doing more that a few years of school, if that. Working 12, 18 hr days to buy a crust of bread. Working in coal mines and other physically dangerous jobs. Living in squallor.

Life was certainly difficult for a lot of people. But chattel slavery -- the actual buying and selling of people, enslaved for life, and bearing their children into slavery -- is different. Yes, slavery has existed all over the world. But only one nation has built itself -- constitutionally, economically, socially and culturally -- on the chattel enslavement of Black people, and it's still reckoning with the legacy today.

The institutions invented to keep Black people in line are certainly used against poor people of all races. But that makes the issue a both/and with race and class, not an elimination of race as an axis of oppression. It's an opportunity to broaden solidarity, not narrow it.

[Heather MC]

35. 💜

Well said!

[yardwork]

36. You're erasing the truth about Black slavery in the U.S.

You don't have a complete knowledge of the facts. I recommend reading How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram Kendi.

Yes, people have oppressed one another forever. The way that Black slaves were treated, and the legacy of that belief system, is something else.

[Blasphemer]

38. Would also recommend the work of Cedric Robinson

And his theory of "racial capitalism." His view of the relationship between racism and classism challenges the established view (i.e. racism was used to divide in service to capitalist aims) and instead explores the deep roots of Western European exploitation and explains that it has always been built on racism.

[Hekate]

26. Thank you for this

All the best, Heather

[Heather MC]

27. 💜

[Heather MC]

56. 💜

🤝🏾

[yardwork]

33. I agree with you about the Republican Party.

I'm a white woman a little older than you, and I'll I've had to do is look and listen to see the truth. You speak the truth. The evidence is there for everyone to see, if they're willing to do so.

[Heather MC]

40. 💜

THANK YOU MY Beautiful Sister.
Truth is a beautiful thing isn't it clarifies the mind doesn't it.

This is why I barely watch any news outlets because I already know which kind of ideology I would always choose. Just like 98% of ALL VOTING BLACK WOMAN, who in 2020 voted with one voice THE LARGEST MAJORITY WITHIN THE TOTAL MAJORITY


81 million strong we said in one voice, " GET THE FK OUT TRUMP" 🤣🤣🤣

The republicans cannot possibly overcome a seven million vote deficit unless they trick us into not participating

[yardwork]

41. Black women will save our democracy.

I always vote with Black women - you get it!

[malaise]

37. What pains me is the racism and disrespect meted out to us by

the recent arrivals - folks like DeathSentence in Florida and others who arrived after WW2 and even more recently. And not just from ReTHUGs either.

Too many people do not know US history.

[nolabear]

39. Been thinking about this all night.

I read it after the ability to say what I want left me. I don’t think even now I will try to match your eloquence. But as a total outlier to both my family and culture of birth (Mississippi White 1960s Liberal was pretty slim pickins) I have had to live with some damn sober thoughts about people and places I love.

We are likely bound by culture, you and I. And the reason why is that your people created so much of that culture. I do not say this lightly—life in the American South, the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in my case, was damn near unsurvivable without the wisdom and labor of your ancestors or someone like them, brought here as chattel but depended on for everything. And the benefits of your strength and creativity in the face of unbelievable cruelty and suffering have, yes, made this country.

I live in the cool, somewhat delusional PNW now. We have an easy time of it and vote well. At least in the urban and urban adjacent areas we do. There’s a shocking dearth of Black folks here. I imagine it’s because it was made liveable so late the diaspora didn’t have much effect, and racism kept so many out of the industries that created it. It’s nice, but I miss my conflicted love of the South. At least the struggle there is out loud. And damn is the food and the music and the painful outgrowth of what my people did to your people a balm.

I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what was wrought upon you and those you love. Frankly, I think those phenomenal survival skills might just save us again, if we’ve got the guts and the brains to stand with you and learn. Hey, a girl can dream. ❤️

[Heather MC]

42. 💜

This is beautiful thank you for your truth.
You cannot apologize for something you are just as much a victim of as we are.

Every person that chooses their own path come for us and birth whether we like them or not, Every single one of those people have nothing to apologize for.

As I said my husband is white. He was raised under the idea that black people couldn't be trusted because his stepfather was allegedly mugged by a black man in 1939. You can imagine how happy they were to hear That their only son was bringing home a black woman for Christmas.
My husband chose me over his family and for the 1st time since he was an adult 33 years old. He didn't return home for Christmas as was his tradition.

Once his family realized that they risk losing their only son. They acquiesced.
And I am happy to say after 21 years of marriage. When my husband's mother passed away I felt like I too lost a mother I still do. And when his stepfather passed away to days before meeting our 2nd child.
I cried like a baby too.

As long as we are willing to always individually tear down the bullshit walls. Our country will always thrive.

And those that cannot handle that will die on a rotten Vine. Or Change🤷🏾‍♀️

[LymphocyteLover]

49. Great points!

[LymphocyteLover]

48. Amen! Agree to all you wrote.

[Heather MC]

52. 💜

THANK YOU.

[summer_in_TX]

53. The spread of overt white supremacy in the years since TFG was

elected, makes me realize the truth in your deduction. Slavery, or the ability to control others to a point similar to slavery, appears to be the goal of the threats of violence.

Stealing labor, but also putting those they designate as least like them and therefore most inferior, in their place.

Racism is beyond just stealing labor. Indentured servitude coerced labor but for a limited period of time. Company towns and stores tricked people into working for much longer than they'd intended to work off debt they accumulated. Migrant laborers still sometimes get tricked into a work camp. Undocumented laborers were even easier to coerce and misuse. Taking advantage of people who are poor and in need to steal labor has happened for a long time. But poor white people were not slaves, even if they were barely compensated for their labor and had little time off. They couldn't legally be whipped for refusing to do a particular job. They had a degree of choice.

But slavery is a whole different level. When an indentured servant ran away, were there laws requiring other states to return him/her? Could the indentured servant's children be sold? No. That was reserved for chattel slavery. Few black people were free. Their owners had the right to beat them. Chattel slavery was vastly more widespread and it was specific to blacks, even those with as little as "one drop" of African-American blood were classified as black, subject to slavery or later Jim Crow. As slaves, their children could be ripped from their families and sold away. No recourse.

I suspect many of the conservatives would settle for 1950s. For the white supremacists, that's likely a strategic place to be right now. But I think it's likel

[Heather MC]

54. Everything you said after the but, is my point. The Republican party has been pro slavery 1776

So therefore everything you said after the but in your statement, that's where they would like to drag us all back to. Only this time it won't just be Africans that they put in chains.

It will be the poor, the disabled, or anyone they deem not like them. And not worthy of respect

Gays would be slaughtered, Lesbians would just be raped until They pretended to like Dick.
And let's not even talk about what they would do to Our beloved 2 spirits society that we call transgender.
I prefer the native term "2 spirits" it's much more beautiful and accurate.

People keep wanting to categorize my statement, Because it's difficult for people to wrap their heads around the idea that the Republican party is now and always has been a PRO SLAVERY PARTY. Even Lincoln's motivation for The emancipation proclamation, wasn't because he gave a rat's ass about what happened to the Africans in the country.

In fact he wanted to ship them all back to Africa because he didn't believe blacks and whites could live on the same continent together in peace. And since the white man stole this land, they certainly weren't thinking of leaving America to the Africans who were forced to bleed sweat and die to build it. Africans are the true 1st owners of this country, because we were the 1st To be forced to give our lives common women their bodies, to build this nation. The founding captors, gave nothing. How can they pretend to own something they neither paid for nor bled for?

And Also, Abraham Lincoln had no choice, because people like Harriet Tubman was burning down the South and kicking their asses. And because white men have a habit of underestimating black women Harriet Tubman was able to run the shit. They only reason they never caught Harriet Tubman even when she was standing right in front of them, It's because they would never consider a black woman that much of a threat And so they never noticed her. And that's why she deserves to be celebrated from now until the end of time. She's more important than any founding captors they force us to love, in school.

All I ask is this, you see my statement for what it is TRUTH. The Republican party is the pro slavery party.

Democrats broke away from their pro slave response in 1965 when they granted black women the right to vote

And that is why today black women, and black men are the largest voting block in any country around the world. 98% black women, 92% black men. We always vote with one voice. And so the lie they tell us is that we are a minority, and we are not unified.

And because we don't understand the power of voting we believe that bullshit.

But let's face it, if it wasn't for us the Democratic Party would have died off a long time ago.

And at least Joe Biden has enough sense to recognize that. Which is why his vice president is KAMALA Harris.

And judge Katanji Brown sits on the Supreme Court today. Because if it wasn't for Obama choosing Biden as his running mate. Biden would not be president today.

👌🏾🤝🏾💜

[summer_in_TX]

57. I actually was agreeing with you.

Just making sure an earlier commenter really understood that there is no comparison between the slavery endured by black people and that of poor whites and so forth.

Must not have been as clear as I intended.

Not that I don't know some Rs not at all like that. But they are not the ones in power. Just some of those who thought the publicized policies (especially economic) were to their liking. Those in power or who want to be in power generally do fit the desire to go back to at least the 1950s.

[Heather MC]

58. A friend of mine always used to say everything after the " but" is the truth

I was agreeing with you as well my apologies if it came off as otherwise💜

[summer_in_TX]

59. Ah, thank you!

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[Heather MC]

60. 💜

[Heather MC]

61. 💜