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can we all hunker down under the Magnolias in the sand of the Plantation driveway under a confederate flag anymore? draw our plans like Lee would have, with a saber a picture of lines scribbled in the sand- our carbine- loaded by our side at the ready our heritage the old war or states rights or slavery when so much time and  lives have passed and people oughta know more about peoples, about history, about struggling which all races do. It wasn't pretty then. Not the least bit. And cotton , high or otherwise, needs no slavery, and bigotry is ancient as sorghum and horse meat. And man is man, proven to depend on a falsity or hate  to defend his ancestry, his teachings, instead of the question. Here, with a stick I scribble, while down hunkering, the least threatening position, to ask of myself, have I done what I could. And the answer of course, the black man and the Mexican, the Redman, the sensible , might answer, is it will take time. Do we have enough?
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 12:38 AM UTC
Do we have enough?
can we all hunker down under the Magnolias in the sand of the Plantation driveway under a confederate flag anymore? draw our plans like Lee would have, with a saber a picture of lines scribbled in the sand- our carbine- loaded by our side at the ready our heritage the old war or states rights or slavery when so much time and  lives have passed and people oughta know more about peoples, about history, about struggling which all races do. It wasn't pretty then. Not the least bit. And cotton , high or otherwise, needs no slavery, and bigotry is ancient as sorghum and horse meat. And man is man, proven to depend on a falsity or hate  to defend his ancestry, his teachings, instead of the question. Here, with a stick I scribble, while down hunkering, the least threatening position, to ask of myself, have I done what I could. And the answer of course, the black man and the Mexican, the Redman, the sensible , might answer, is it will take time. Do we have enough?
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 12:38 AM UTC
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