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@Pioneer1 On anything I post you don't need to say your sorry for the way in which you adore an individual or group I am showcasing. I ask no one to think like me or to think like another outside themselves.

Divorces destroy wealth and should be done with much more thought than entering into marriage Mr. or Mrs. good enough, or OK, is no longer acceptable, though it is far and away the most likely outcome. No one is perfect or can be all things to someone. If two white woman want to share one Black man, great if it works for them. Our society is not designed or set up for these types of familial configurations — we haven’t even come to terms with “mixed race” relationships let alone polygamous ones — so they will have more difficulty that a traditional relationship, which is already challenging.

You have to give teachers something to work with so they can do their jobs. Parents should always be their children's first teachers. When I attended school black history, neither its true nor sanitized versions were taught. What I learned about it was brought to my attention by my father. Today black parents, themselves, should know enough about black history to pass some of it on to their kids and give the teachers a head start by making these kids receptive to their authentic heritage. This has to be a collaborative effort. The diversity found in the black community trickles down in all areas and individuals have their own goals and priorities As usual, the home environment of black kids influences their the trajectory. Not to mention. that there isn't that much about black history that has to be tweaked. Black kids could be told in one sitting that their people were brought to this country against their will and held in bondage for 400 years by southern white plantation owners, and that they were abused and not treated as equals because they were considered inferior by both their masters and the Constitution. And that all attempts to break the chains of their bondage were thwarted by the cruel slave masters until the South lost the war to keep their slaves who were finally emancipated by a President - with ulterior motives.. And that all of this is what reinforced the racism which exists to this day, in spite of how blacks have proven themselves to be equal by deed and accomplishment, - something kids can presently see for themselves. It should also be explained that the reason "America, the beautiful", the "Leader of the Free World" doesn't want all of this revealed or emphasized is because this democratic republic doesn't want its stellar image to be tarnished by its disgraceful past. Period. Conservative whites fear that teaching these unvarnished truths will result in their kids being subjected to retaliation from black classmates. They also want to absolve themselves from the sins of their forefathers, choosing to ignore how the past paved the way for the present white skin privilege that continues to benefit them. Of course, all of this has become politicized. And the beat goes on...

A couple of hundred years ago there was a race for America.

Since Reagan they've been hard at work rolling back EVERYTHING positive that has been done. They'd go right back to the Emancipation Proclamation if they could. I get your frustration about apathetic black folks. I have the same frustration about apathetic ALL folks! We have to always remember that when talking to any ordinary person we're competing with thousands of hours of media brainwash and distraction. The system targets this at blacks, latinos, whites... everyone. I repeatedly bring up the example of my own people, Appalachians in West Virginia. They consistently vote for their oppressors. They are reamed thoroughly by the system of coal companies and corrupt politicians at every turn and they just keep coming back for more. Now they've got them all salivating for Trump and white-right nonsense which does not help them in the least. And how does this happen? Look at the ads on this site. The most prominent one is about "the Marxist roots of CRT". The GOP discovered "CRT", or their imaginary strawman version of it, and it works well for them. They've got millions of whites in an uproar that their children are being taught to hate themselves. To black folks they don't mention CRT, they talk about "the Democratic plantation". Say the word "plantation" and black people notice. The rest is bullcrap, but they've got their attention and off we go. Notice every time they find ONE black person voting for Trump they go on about a movement of black people toward the Republicans. They've been going on about this for a long time. If it were true, by now 94.5% of blacks would be Republicans. Just as useful for them: make people think it's all nonsense, not worth their time. Don't bother voting, black folks. That battle was won back in the 60s remember? You're "free" now, go back to sleep. Just one of endless variations of the same tune they're singing to nearly everyone. An old version of it to whites in the South was, "You've got it good! You're better off than the blacks! Shut up!" It was easy for me to do this, because I taught mostly where there were no white students. In S-Central L.A., my first principal was Afrocentric. She heard my rap and left me alone. So they learned African and Mexican history. I learned not to tell anyone anything, except the few teachers whom I could trust, who could be black, white or Mexican. I quickly learned one cannot expect to trust someone just because they're black or Mexican. But when I did get around white students, even where the white teachers were all progressives, feminists, etc., I ran into problems whenever I started teaching other than the basic curriculum. I was teaching about the Iroquois Plan of Peace and there were progressive white teachers hiding around the doorjamb spying on me and reporting to the principal. I found that beyond acknowledging their existence and establishing that they should not be maltreated, any content involving Native culture was problematic. We can only look at the Iroquois through white eyes, not present them on their own terms. Yes you are entirely correct about the need for stealth. Stealth-bomb them with the truth!

This syndrome is not only afflicting Africa. I am from West Virginia. WV has been ravaged by timber and coal companies for generations, reducing the people to poverty and severely abusing them. YET West Virginians elect COAL company owners and execs to office all the time! The current Gov Justice is a billionaire coal mine owner. How many times have they been suckered? How many times have these coal politicians screwed them? Doesn't matter... they'll still vote for them. And currently they think their problems were caused by Democrats! The same Democrats who used to support the coalminers union! The Democrats who at least pretend to have their interests in mind. They can't see past their coalmining job. Likewise in Africa, if someone is receiving a paycheck from China, they're not going to complain about China. This is an unfortunate shortsightedness which is common among humans.