See, that's the problem. They the media focuses on their enslavement, but not the rest of it. Plus, they make sure to leave out that blacks had slaves.
It seems they want to leave that open wound opened, I'm not saying anyone should forget, but they should tell all the of history not pick and choose what to leave out.
Okay, I'm done everybody and sorry. I don't want to turn anyone off of this thread.
Bliss, Thank You.
Don't be sorry. If you want to talk further we can move the discussion to a PM conversation. I believe the civil conversations bring people together and heal a suffering world.
Juneteenth is a popular celebration among American blacks that I've been hearing about since my childhood. It isn't a recent mass media invention. There have been, in recent decades, music releases and stage plays about it, by, for and about American black artists. Juneteenth is very much about closing that old wound through celebration.
I agree the schools don't teach enough of anything. Rather than just teach that blacks were enslaved in America, I think it should be taught that the history of humans is of two constant frictions between those who want to herd and control their fellow humans, and those who want freedom and peace for all people. The world is in an intense struggle between those two forces right now, and kids in schools are being taught things that are beyond bizarre. They say truth is the first casualty of war.
I have a friend I used to swap movies with. We don't do it much anymore, but one we both loved was "Black Girl", the 1966 one (there is another later movie of the same name). The 1966 "Black Girl" was considered to have represented the birth of Senegalese cinema. I don't need to go into the plot, just that it made me curious to look up the history of Senegal, which at one time was a French colony. The French put an end to slavery there, outlawed it,
a slavery of Africans by Africans.
I feel there's so much more to say, including what was expected to happen because of the 2020 BLM demonstrations (staged by wealthy white men who paid the players in money and drugs), and how those demonstrations did not result in the expected bloody civil war or revolution simply because ours is not a racist country. For decades those same creepy social engineers have tried to pit muslims against jews in western Europe, to get them into violent confrontations, which hasn't worked either. There's a Youtube channel called Pax Tube that has a 30 minute video titled "Why the French Revolution was Worse than you Thought". It's a quick look, and shows you exactly what the BLM demonstrations were engineered to cause.
But I'll leave it there unless you want to PM me for further discussion.
Much love,
BD
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