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White Mediation Highjacks Madison’s and Mason’s Virginia

Bren Kelly
9 min readSep 14, 2024

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Continued Democracy Destruction of Voting Rights of Coloreds — Part Deux

Negro Prime 1786 Freed as Promised in NJ
No, it’s not a transformer movie. Negro Prime in 1786 was Freed as Promised in New Jersey, honoring his service in the War and starting a legislative trend that never made it South. [Published after passing 1786.]

Silence, ignorance, and the ability to speak back against such “white mediation” wasn’t always the case. De-mediation was constant, or rather straightforward ideas. A rose was a rose. American Virginia started off challenging British Virginia an extraordinarily strong claim, one of the strongest cases that led to the founding of America. Today, because the dominant narrative machinery in our brain adheres so firmly to the principle of Unity, we can’t “see” it. That is, we can’t perceive, conceive, or imagine that one of the key areas the American Revolution sprang from was from slave owning elites in Virginia. Yet here we are taking a look at that foundation anyway, despite your brain.

Your brain “retrojects” the idea of Unity into the past, and Virginia is a land of slavery. Jefferson owned slaves in Virginia and so did Washington; therefore, no good came out of Virginia and these men were somehow “bad” because they owned slaves. Retrojection is taking the values you’ve been trained to memorize that are embedded within the history you’ve studied and experienced, which contains value structures in them.

Take slavery. Slavery you think is bad, immoral, and nasty white men with plantations engaged in it. That “moral value”…

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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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