“If I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didn’t allow you to have any money, I didn’t allow you to have anything on the board, I didn’t allow for you to have anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you, that was Tulsa. That was Rosewood. Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground.”
Kimberly Jones
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To put it in a similar context when we look at both historical and current landmark elections of blacks and contrast that with the current rounds of nationwide gerrymandering and election ‘safeguarding’ the take it all back at the end of this round is waiting in the wings.
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An excellent analogy, John. I can’t imagine the fury we’re about to see explode.
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They always get furious when they are caught red handed. Then the blame it on the liberal left wing communists because it is such a good trope.
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This is an effective analogy. The taking away also happened in the city where I live. In 1898, the only successful coup in the US happened in Wilmington NC. Not only were prosperous black owned businesses destroyed, many African American people were murdered. The scars are deep and have only been acknowledged by the general population in the past 10 years or so. We have so much work to do. So much healing…..
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Thank you for sharing this, JoAnna. Someone recently mentioned Wilmington to me but I haven’t gone to read about it yet. Acknowledging it happened is at least a start.
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This was and remains so sad.
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The injustice of it all is enraging.
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horrible and sad and true
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And absolutely infuriating.
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So tragic.
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It is. I don’t understand how some people don’t grasp this.
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Because they are self-absorbed?
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Or refuse to consider any experience other than their own as valid. Whoops, I guess that would be the definition of self-absorbed. 🤷🏻♀️
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It is! And this is common in all privilege communities all over the world! But some places it’s more than others. What Trump did was that he took away the sense of shame in being racist.
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Such a sad reality.
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It is.
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