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THE VEIL OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD

A veil is lifted. Not because these double standards are pointed out more frequently (they've been pointed out ad infinitum from the beginning);


but because more people are letting the HORRORS sink in. Fewer trolls. Fewer gaslighters. Fewer folk suggesting that we don't know the 'WHOLE STORY.'


And this is a very good thing. The one thing STILL lacking is what's most needed; an apology for all of the deflection, blame-shifting, gaslighting and trolling of our pages.


And finally for all of the years of silence! But I understand. One of the highest tenets of white savagery (and therefore hardest to shake) is 


never having to say, 'I'm sorry.' Again, this is what's most needed. It's not just holding us back or keeping us down; it's keeping us all stagnant.


Many days I come up from prayer and meditation thinking 'Still Oil?!? Coal?!? Electricity from radiation?!? Plastic filled oceans?!? Still bombing people over there?!? A Cuba 


embargo that lasted fifty plus years?!? One in five college women sexually assaulted in our institutes of higher learning?!?


And I could go on and on and on. It's all connected, though. And the enemy is not them over there; it's us. And the battle is always spiritual.


So when you finally see, what are you going to do? And if the first step isn't apologizing (and not that mew mew ‘I’m so sorry!’ general platitude either), then you're wasting everyone's limited (and therefore precious) time.

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