Bren Kelly
2 min readDec 18, 2023

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That is fabulous equivocation that shows a near total absence of historical context of white racism in America. I don’t blame you, as not much is taught in history books, and that is by design. To put the real history in would never pass a school board meeting as half the whites would rise up in violent protest with hurt feelings.
For example, how can you teach that from 1834 to 1980 no whites were subjected to the due process of law when they formed an organized armed group and set out to kill one or more black American in the most brutal manner possible? None were processed for murder of innocent black Americans they alleged did a “horrible crime”? These white tied black Americans to stakes, burned them alive, with hundreds or even thousands of whites watching. they burned down whole towns with black Americans in them, dynamited several black Americans business in Oklahoma alone before dropping bombs on black Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And no whites were processed after such brutality. Google the picture of Lloyd Werner in 1933, on the ground burned to a crisp with the white murders standing in front of his charred and still smoking body while thousands watched. Or Raymond Gunn in Missouri, tied to a post on the top of schoolhouse, the small schoolhouse doused in gasoline then lit on fire by whites, with 2,000 whites watching. That is sheer depravity, and his howling screams as he burned were horrific. The whites didn’t care at all about the due process of law and letting the courts decide, and the justice system enact punishment. There is no equivalent of black Americans in a group doing this to a white man during that long period.
And before you cite some drug incident or some white guy shot, think about what I said: the whites organized murderers were not not tried and arrested and know to the community, and didn’t go to jail. In 1979 a group of KKK and Nazis went into a black area in Greensboro NC and shot up a bunch of black Americans congregating legally and peacefully in their party of town to arrange a vote. The give whites were acquitted in 1980 by an all white jury. The next year they were found liable in a civil case. No, there are clearly two side, two sets of laws that produce two sets of outcomes.
By not studying what black Americans experienced is hurtful.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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