I don't think anything could really prepare you for what slaves endured, especially the women.
Now, Jim Crow, the Lord knows...
Sitting in the back of the bus? I'd rather walk, thank you. Drinking from 'colored only' water fountains? I don't drink from any fountains,
Sir. Entering the diner through the back door? Or, arresting me for integrating a lunch counter? Quite frankly
Ma'am, you can have the diner and the counter. I have better food in my own kitchen. (You can't get good Louisiana cuisine just anywhere anyway! ) Being bitten by dogs and blown away by a fire hose for protesting for civil rights? I would more likely have been blown away by a police bullet, because I would have been armed and firing at the dogs and the man holding the hose just as soon as they began to act up.
GodlyAspiringDr, like you, I really don't think I could have lived accepting slavery, and I probably would have gotten myself killed resisting JC too.
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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
These things our ancestors endured are so fragile that we can lose them so quickly that the next thing we know, we have failed to learn from our history to succeed in our futures... We'll be slaves again if we don't shape up our actions... And don't even begin to ask me how to do that because I just don't know outside of pure reparations...
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What do you mean by "pure reparations"? Monetary relief? Or... something else?
