By Jason Pesch
I grew up in Texas, where they made me take Texas History three separate times like repetition could bleach reality.
School treated the Alamo like it was the sacred birthplace of freedom and conveniently left out the part where a big chunk of those “heroes” were fighting to keep slavery after Mexico banned it.
We didn’t get history, we got a bedtime story sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and narrated by a guy polishing his cowboy boots with denial.
Meanwhile, at home, family members were dropping the n-word like it was punctuation, and one relative complained about “mixed couples in commercials” like love itself was some kind of supply-chain crisis.
And a teacher seriously asked the class, “Wouldn’t you like to have a slave?” as if he was offering extra lunch milk. My Black friends and I locked eyes like, Did this dude just audition for the Confederacy in 1980-something?
That’s the world I was handed, where racism wasn’t a relic, it was a vibe. A daily background hum. Some folks wore it loud like a NASCAR jacket; others tucked it under politeness like a flask in church.
Then I grew up, looked around, and voted for someone with empathy because (wild idea right?) empathy actually makes communities livable. And suddenly half the family ghosted me like I was the one who had said something horrific at Thanksgiving.
And now we’ve got politicians, especially the MAGA-flavored ones, screaming “FREE SPEECH!” so they can say the quiet-part-out-loud again without consequences. They don’t want freedom; they want a time machine back to when cruelty was tradition and nobody called them out for it.
They wanna brag about “telling it like it is” inside their bubble… and then play innocent in public like, Oh gosh, how dare you accuse me of the thing I literally just said?
I know that dance. I grew up watching it. It’s the “let me say awful things and then hide behind patriotism, Jesus, or the First Amendment when someone notices” shuffle.
History didn’t lie to me once. It lied repeatedly, loudly, and with a flag in its hand. The difference now? I don’t buy the Hallmark version. I lived the unedited one.
And I’m not going back.
Please get out there and vote for empathy and compassion. Not fear and division.
Blessed be.
13 comments:
You communist won't have to worry much about slavery or racism. The communist party will erase all that for you! But for now please be reminded that racism exists through ignorance. And there is a lot of ignorance in this country. As for slavery every one of us is a slave to someone or something.
Today blacks are the most racist people in America. Montoya is an antisemite like the rest of the Democratic party. Diversity means having a disproportionate number of blacks on the job, on television, and in every facet of life. Transvestites are real women to Democrats. Democrats are showing their compassion by not providing SNAP benefits by not funding a continuing resolution. They see the poor as leverage. Go virtue signal to someone else.
Get lost, Tad.
"As for slavery every one of us is a slave to someone or something".
Is it a biblical sin to kill your master? Yes.
How do I feel about that?
"Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks".
Anyone else have pics of flipping off the Alamo? Or ith it just a wiberal communitht thing? Ohhh, those wascally democwats or should I say demoWATS? HE HE HE HE.
Have you noticed that there are no Hispanics on movies or television? Too many blacks considering that they are only thirteen percent of the population. You can't even watch a movie about Vikings without seeing some negroe in the cast.
Why, look...there's a Negroe with Yo Mama in her bed. . . . .
Change happens.
Hispanics are everywhere. Movies, CEOS, models, sports, medical field.
Hispanics don't have education. Sadly in our culture education is not valued.
We are slaves to the fallacy of the American Dream. We The People means that our elected officials work for us. We know that is not true. The citizens are not consulted in decisions to start or end wars. Or which nations we should punish with economic sanctions and restrictions. Representatives are beholding to the highest bidders. PACs, corporations and oligarchs provide the finances needed to get their agendas furthered. They will stay in office insuring the survival of the status quo. Many past 90 years in age. Capitalism has its place. But it has infiltrated the Democratic political process like a cancer. The wealthiest are calling all the shots. We witnessed this in 2008 recession. Taxpayer money was used to bailout private businesses engaging in unethical practices. No one was held accountable or
incarcerated. The majority of the burden of paying taxes falls on the middle and lower-class citizens. Yet the largest corporations and wealthiest people use tax loopholes that they paid for, to avoid paying their fair share, if any.
All of you are sick racists….and I’ll bet 1 or 2 of you are Chicanos. The irony of it, a Chicano racist. What have “Re-puke-icans” wrought?
All of you are sick racists….and I’ll bet 1 or 2 of you are Chicanos. The irony of it, a Chicano racist. What have “Re-puke-icans” wrought?
Racist, homophobic, and machista but they'll never recognize it. There were coco vendidos 200 years ago, 80 years ago, and even today they're still here. The facts is we all have implicit bias that makes us discriminative and self sabotaging. . .Just take a look at Republican Counties(Cameron) that are heavier users of food stamps and are disproportionately represented among those who voted for Trump. 956 Fatigue, we hate ourselves.
Oooh, Wear ith that wascally democwat? or should I say demoWATS!
Oh, Jethuth 4give them, 4 they no not what they do.
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