Gonna drive by a reservation on your way to tell folks how racist the Confederate flag is?

[jtuck004]

144. Generally speaking people talk about what they care about. And in post after post after post

after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post* I read about how bad those people were with the bad flag, but nothing about the genocide and theft we stand on to make these claims while our precious is flapping in the breeze.

I suddenly remembered such topics have, in many cases, been cleverly expurgated from our national conversation. So I thought to bring it up.

And I thought, since it is Summer, folks might be travelling through, and people like to draw with chalk. Might learn something. They could go through Centralia and look up how they murdered IWW workers, or Tacoma and view the site where the police fired on docking boats of Wobblies who were trying to speak to workers about how to help themselves, or Spokane where they made the 1st Amendment illegal and Wobblies filled their jails.

But this is killing horses which only indirectly starved people, so it's a little more family friendly.

"Most of us are outraged by both" < Perhaps what you say is true, but I would really like for it to translate into something else. The barriers seem a bit high these days.

Still, stories are fun.


*well, not just here, of course.