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An EXPOSITION OF: CURSED BEGINNINGS DO NOT LEAD TO BLESSED ENDS…
…ANYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH, (as far as I know at 8:02 pm PST, Saturday, December 28, 2024)
Among the worst things one can do to oneself; it becomes an impenetrable wall around each and every possibility and smothers all potential; is to know something important about reality with absolute certainty, but to refuse, with the same iron conviction, to acknowledge it. Of all the things that can take place within that mental prison cell, movement cannot. Progress cannot. And any growth that occurs is necessarily unnatural and twisted. Now, this is the case for the individual, but it is even more monstrous when an entire society does it. This is the race situation amongst species Homo sapiens on Planet Earth.
By knowing and acknowledging, I am not talking about knowing that slavery existed and White supremacy, and then confessing the same. That is not the unacknowledged reality about which everyone is secretly certain. All of that is known and talked about ad nauseum. This is not the dread; this is not what we all know but cannot bear to say.
Why is it, after all, that we have had a ‘frank discussion on race prejudice on Planet Earth at least since my grandfather’s generation until now (but for actually much longer), and it never ceases? It is not to solve, but to deflect from that moribund…