You know, the last couple months a lot of racism talk has been happening, and it occurs to me a lot of non-Black people don't really grasp how bad racism is, and always has been for us. Ok listen, I'll assume you know what Jim Crow was, but please google because I doubt you
Truly know how deep and dark it was, or when it actually needed, etc. but here: when those laws "ended" yes quotations are needed, do you realize nothing was done to rectify the situation? The places people were forced to live, the literal ghettos created, the money stolen, none
Of that was fixed, resolved or even looked at being fixed in any way. Take a step back. Ending a law doesn't fix the problems caused by the unfairness of that law. If you and I are the same age, and I grew up poorer due to these laws, and you didn't, I'm forever at a disadvantage
No matter how hard I work. If I surpass you in life, that doesn't mean we're equal. I hate to say this but that means I'm amazing!!! Achieving despite my own country being against me!! Which I did btw, literally working my way up to the upper echelons of civil service, but that's
Not the point. The point is; If we were to make marijuana federally legal right now, what comes next? Grandfathering in people who are in jail and releasing them correct? Why? If you know the answer, then ask why Black people weren't given restitution for their suffering and
Oppression which was legally mandated. Why weren't things fixed? The answer is racism. A country built on the pillars of white supremacy cannot ever be equal for all, without knocking down those pillars. This is fact. We can change wording, but the fact is founding documents
Still say certain people aren't... people. This is why so many countries put aside old constitutions and recreate them in the image of the old with corrections. Place it in a glass box to be looked at, but create a document where everyone is seen as equal!! Not one where
"Well page 15, sub paragraph 6 changes the text of page 1 and says you're a real human being now". That sounds ridiculous. And I'm sure you'd think so too if it were you. Anyway. Back to the darkness. #smoke
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