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The Five Things I Learned during Black History Month 2023
A Recap for Fighters Only
Many social warriors, writing and fighting activists looking to get informed and engage in debate who read my work, like you, should not be depressed to learn the depth of how far we have to go. But you should be heartened that the real revelations show true integration, and that those who stand up against supremacy’s false confederate flag are the ones standing up for Freedom and America.
The ideals you see in the struggle are only partly sad, in that we have a “long way to go” before America, that concept becomes America the country. Democracy is not born fully formed but waged into existence by standing up for the beliefs of the rights of equalities over the wrongs of repression of others.
So, a brief recap of what I learned is mixed, filled with promise, a dirtying of issues, but ones that contain the seeds of hope that make some of us want to learn and overcome the repression the supremacists are ramping up as they aim toward the next election.
1- I learned about Angela Davis more through reading and documentaries. She was a genius who attended philosophy course, studied in Germany where she got her doctorate, then while being a professor got caught up in the Civil Rights movement. She was false accused of accessory to murder because…
