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[ananda]

29. Yeah, Confederacy and slavery is part of my ancestry too.

And my Texas side of the family is very racist, some being also
crazed fundies.

But most of them are very fun and lovable also. I hope they
also have the potential for personal evolution.

There is no point in keeping this kind of thing secret. It does
no good in any way to hide it.

However, it's hard to overcome if both your parents are that way,
American exceptionalists and racist the way my family is.

The only way my siblings and I escaped it was that my mother
wasn't raised in the south and always made close friends and
connections with everybody she met just about, which included
everybody bar none, including racist conservatives who she
loved to argue with. But even they weren't as crazy and
mean-spirited then as the conservatives are now.