Wow, OK, so that is all so positive, and yet so deeply true. The gratitude is not being expressed. And when we start by focusing on the great things done, it sort of dissolves the negative that are bantered about. One item I’ve been think of lately, thanks to CHOSSAlike your self, is that the struggle for civil rights is the struggle for democracy over the autocrat instincts of man embedded within him from the first few thousand years of history, all autocratic. The instincts of slave-owners as much akin to aristocratic lords in England, that is decorated by politeness but autocratic underneath. The struggle of CHOSSA is actually the core struggle for democracy. We should be grateful to them for that struggle, which makes our country more democracy oriented, more diverse and accepting. I agree with the other points, just focused on this.
I should think once we are done being grateful, maybe we should give them a tip, like tipping a waiter at a restaurant or something. Maybe instead of calling it a tip we could call it something else, like, for instance, like backpay, or like Reparations. Reparations could represent the missed opportunity of giving pay for labor. It’s a bad euphemism in a way for a horrible time period, but it focuses on the building of America they actually did we should all be grateful for.
Thanks so much again for bringing this insight I didn’t have before.