In the world of the Woke, things that have happened, should not have happened, OR only happened because someone with power allowed them to happen, or benefited from them happening. Here's how we prove them wrong. 1/
Frederick Douglass, a slave, escaped. How did this benefit someone white and in power? He then educated himself, not in a fancy school, full of cutting-edge tech, black teachers, DEI and SEL programs, but alone. He became an educator, statesman, and writer. 2/
Douglass married a white woman, at a time when that was illegal in many states. What powerful person benefited? They had a long and prosperous marriage. Who was his white benefactor, and how far do you want to go to denigrate his own hard work and achievements? 3/
Moving on, he extolled the virtues of the constitution, while admitting our imperfect attempts to realize it's visionary purpose. No one ostracized him or cast him out for these criticisms.3/
When he died, he was one of the most famous men in America, white or black, at a time when overt racism was still a thing. His legacy and influence live on to this day. He pissed off plenty of people in power, male and female, white and black, and yet he never wavered. 4/
None of these things should have happened according to the Woke, and that's going back over 100 years. It's not that things are perfect, it's that their whole argument is built on a lie: 5/
...that black, or rather *pigmented people* in America, can ONLY succeed if white people say so. He is but one of countless examples proving them wrong. To believe their underlying assumption is to wholesale reject reality, to follow a gaslight mindlessly like a moth. /6
All we have to do if we want to defeat this lie is stop telling any part of it. Stop handing them even bits and pieces of their argument. Just because freedom was not perfect to scale from day one does not mean it was impossible without "burning shit down" and starting over. 7/
Freedom IS, it's just a matter of how much you want yo risk to use it. Douglass risked his life, but ONLY in America could that have worked when he did it. Today? No one need risk *anything* but reputation, and 8/
The irony is, the people most keen to destroy the reputation of any American who simply holds his or her head up and says "I'm already liberated, a was born FREE, are those insisting they and only they have the power to "liberate" others. /9
It's all a lie. Stop telling it. Race is skin deep, culture is not, but free-will trumps culture all day. Start championing cultural values and traditions that demonstrably work to advance human flourishing, and stop pretending ALL do this equally well. /10
Start telling the truth, unapologetically, without hesitation, or remorse. If you are living on American soil, under the COTUS you are free er still than anyplace on earth. Start acting accordingly, no matter what you look like, want to look like, or whom you love. /END
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