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The Revelation of Underlying Human Rights Depravity
Governor Newsome is what I now call a fake liberal. A white man, much like Adam Schiff, who defends (or at least projects) the idea that their state is glorious and different than Texas. This illusion is critical to whites in the state, the granola crunchers who believe that they not they aren’t white racists. Oh, my goodness, heavens to Betsy No. But when I began focusing not on the surface reality of a polished white governor versus a grouchy nasty white Texan governor in my state (or Florida), the unity in human rights deprivation is mind-numbingly similar. So how come white liberals like to maintain this illusion of Texas being “worse”? And when will blacks stop believing that those liberals are with them?
Well, the short answer to the second question is maybe soon — I really hope so. After I went through a period pre- and post-election this year that all whites suck, I’ve come out of that funk a little bit and determined that some don’t, a good five percent. Ignorance though blankets the “goodness” of another 40 percent, which is preventing these horrible human rights depravities. NIMBY — no, they are in your backyard, California. Just like they are in Texas.
It’s what you fight for that matters, not where you come from. That’s one reason I’ve dispersed my funk. No illusions for me; I’m not voting for white…