So Very Few Americans Know Our Own National History

This man, Matthew Cooke, says it so well and so right.  Go here and watch this video.  And know it's true. Know he has his facts andour American history straight and correct. It's a very brief but very helpful to the point of important video, I feel strongly.

Trump-Republicans are the Modern Confederates: Let us not repeat 150-year old mistakes

I've said time and again, so very few Americans know our full, true national history and what that has meant for----and done to--- African-Americans and Blacks in our nation, even right up to today. 

We have to learn.

And then we have to react. We have to correct.

Fortunately, some, a few, are now seeing the insurrection and attack on our nation's Capitol last month for the treason it was.

McConnell: Trump Tricked Me Into Backing His Coup

They're also seeing Ms. Greene for what and who she is.

McConnell calls Rep. Greene's 'loony lies' a 'cancer' on GOP

No situation any better proves the old adage that if you don't know your own history, you are bound to repeat it any better than now, especially with that insurrection and treason of the traitors last month with the attack on our nation's Capitol.

The Star Already Has White People Flipping Out

Oh, yeah. Our local Kansas City Star no doubt has people, white people flipping out today, what with this opinion article they just put out.

After decades of failure to close the wealth gap, Black Americans need reparations

A bit from the article:

One of the most telling and enduring vestiges of slavery and the period thereafter of horrific oppression of Black people is the wealth gap that currently exists between Black and white Americans. According to a study done in 2016, Black families have an average net worth of $11,000, compared to a white family’s average net worth of $141,900. This wealth gap exists at every income level.

First, are they right.  They are so correct. Given all we've done to African-Americans from the beginning of the nation to today?

• Slavery
• Reconstruction
• Jim Crow laws
• Lynchings
• Burning people out of their homes
• Legalized segregation
• Widespread incarceration and since the end of the Civil War

Oh, yeah.

But secondly?

White people will be flipping out.

They already are.

Just seeing responses to this article on the paper's Facebook page showed that. I'd never seen this response before today.

GTFOOHWTBS

The very recent decision to rename the JC Nichols fountain due to his racism and the legalized segregation of that era proves it by itself.

So should it happen? 

Yes.  Heck yes. Absolutely.

Will it happen anytime soon?

Not only will it not happen anytime soon, I think it will be some time until it does take place.

If it ever dose.

There's a blog written here in town and I can only imagine what the knuckle-dragging, racist commenters are going to be writing over there on this.