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White People Are Hopeless.
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You may think I have given up on White people by the content of this article’s title. Before I answer that question in my on way, I wanted to provide Whites the ability to redeem themselves. I cannot say this will be an easy task, but I am sure you will consider it with an open heart, fertile mind, and an accepting embrace of the truth of your sorry judgement, lack of positive engagement, and for your personal worsening of our skin color predicament.
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First, I must say. Wow, Whitey! You are commended for taking all that on so willingly. It is almost like White antiracist hopefulness is ascendant… While fabricating this wholly inaccurate mirage is repulsive, it gives me the same ignorance of bliss feeling that our racist commissions and omissions have for hundreds of years. Shoot! We even let our supposed christian preachers make up shit about slavery, and many of us swallowed that stupid shit hook all the way down to our flatulence-fulminating, gullible gullets.
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It is staggering how much we do not know about our history because who wants to know the truth? The truth hurts. While the truth also can be healthy, healing, and happy, if it is always about the happy, you know it is not the truth. American Exceptionalism is built on partial truths, nice happy crap half truths that is, not on TRUTH as a through line. Ironically, you can never be very exceptional if you deny truth, in its full form.
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Ever heard the concept of failure is your best teacher, or something to that effect? Great inventors, entrepreneurs, business moguls, and their paid puppets and pandering pundits have spouted this nonsense for years. I call the failure concept nonsense not because it has little truth in it, but that it is absent from most of their talk about our nation. Conservative Republicans talk in a swagger about business, but fear our failure as a government of the people. Not getting into our failures as a nation shows that fear. But how can we go to the next level without understanding our failures? We cannot.
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Therefore, Americans hardly ever go to the next level in our social project, due to not truthfully reevaluating the failures in our uniting policies. We sputter. We triangulate. We…
