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JustAnotherGen

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6. I commend you

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 09:44 AM

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But all of my great nieces and nephews with the exception of one are half latino/latina. The one who is not? Her grandparents are from Ivory Coast.

My 16 year old niece in Rochester is going to school with a passport. To be clear - we are Americans. We predate the French Indian war in my mother's family. We descend from enslaved Americans.

Black folks? We've been here before. 1877-1965. None of this is new to us.

What is new to us? Now that it impacts the 'rest of world' they give a damn. They always traded and engaged with America . . . and overlooked just what an evil bunch of miscreants we were and remain.

We have ALWAYS been this country . . . just now? It's the White Supremacy is hitting everyone at home and abroad in the face. So yes - they can kindly fuck off.

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