LAMENT THAT WE DIDN’T REPENT LONG BEFORE

LAMENT THAT WE DIDN’T REPENT LONG BEFORE

Did you know that there was ample time to repent of slavery long before the Civil War?

A war that saw the deaths of more Yankee /Confederate soldiers than World War I and II combined?

Do you know that there’s been ample time for reparations and a total restructuring of the justice system where white cops are no longer patrolling Black spaces to supply our jails with prison/slave labor?

Or that the white liberals on our pages have had plenty of facts and info and video thrown at them but STILL remain silent (or even condescending) on the matter?

What if I told you that the war between the states could have been prevented; not by wagging a finger at the South, but by finally dealing with the racist EVILS of the North?

And today we have the same scenario of scapegoating.

You know what they say about the lessons of history:

Those failing to learn are doomed to repeat them and their consequences.

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