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The Ugly History of New Year's Is Too Real for White Republicans
Daily Beast
Enslaved Black people dreaded New Year’s in Civil War-era America, when they might be separated from loved ones. Just don’t tell the people yelling about “critical race theory.”
Kali Holloway
Published Dec. 31, 2021 6:10PM ET
On this New Year’s Day, it’s a good bet that Rhode Island state Rep. Patricia Morgan and the one Black person she knows will not be sitting down to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens together.
It’s an even safer bet that she and her fellow Republicans will spend zero mental energy on the history of the New Year as a terrifying moment for enslaved people in America.
Rep. Morgan, as you might recall, tweeted a few days ago that she “had a black friend”—emphasis on the past tense—but this unnamed Black token had recently become “hostile and unpleasant,” which the Rhode Island lawmaker concluded must be because of critical race theory, because she herself hadn’t done “anything to her, except be white.”
CRT, according to Morgan, is the issue that’s really “divid[ing] us because of skin color.”
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Enslaved Black people dreaded New Year’s in Civil War-era America, when they might be separated from loved ones. Just don’t tell the people yelling about “critical race theory.”
Kali Holloway
Published Dec. 31, 2021 6:10PM ET
On this New Year’s Day, it’s a good bet that Rhode Island state Rep. Patricia Morgan and the one Black person she knows will not be sitting down to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens together.
It’s an even safer bet that she and her fellow Republicans will spend zero mental energy on the history of the New Year as a terrifying moment for enslaved people in America.
Rep. Morgan, as you might recall, tweeted a few days ago that she “had a black friend”—emphasis on the past tense—but this unnamed Black token had recently become “hostile and unpleasant,” which the Rhode Island lawmaker concluded must be because of critical race theory, because she herself hadn’t done “anything to her, except be white.”
CRT, according to Morgan, is the issue that’s really “divid[ing] us because of skin color.”
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full great read at link
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if I didn't want to remember such tragedy each new year. I'd always prefer to focus on the future; but if, as many believe, time travel may someday may be possible, that means the past must exist to travel to.
Now, back to looking from an incredibly better present toward what should be an even better future. Each of us doing our tiny parts that also will always exist.
