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Nine years ago, I began to slowly awaken to my racial prejudices and white privilege. It was a rude awakening. During the past three years, I’ve blogged about that journey from racial ignorance. Recently, someone asked me what have been the biggest surprises along the way. What do I know now that I didn’t know before? What follows is a short list of some of my bigger epiphanies and the posts where I shared these revelations.
I didn’t know that for a short period after the Civil War black people made significant progress in political and economic terms. I didn’t know we had black US Senators and Representatives, that many southern states had black legislatures, that black literacy rates skyrocketed and blacks make significant economic gains. I didn’t know about the reign of terror necessary for whites to end this moment of possibility, murdering thousands of black men, women and…
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Excellent piece. Did you know about Greenwood and the Tulsa race riots where the black wealth of America was destroyed in a weekend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
Thank white inferiority complex. The same reason the colonizers destroyed indigenous culture. They were better at life than white Europeans
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No, I didn’t & the more I hear or read, the more I’m finding I haven’t heard or read, & the more disgusted I become.
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I say Tex to reparations. YES!! You know, we send 38 billion a year to prop up Israel? Easily we could pay black Americans and right this wrong in a day.
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Where the hell did Tex come from? It was a yes. Hah
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There ya go!
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Very honest. Great quality in you
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