re: #24 Blind Frog Belly White

True history is complex and rarely offers absolute heroes or absolute villains.

The Founding Fathers risked everything to establish a new, independent America - mostly for the advantage of wealthy white landowners like themselves, because they didn’t trust anyone but their own sort of people to run the government responsibly.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves - but only after 3 years, and only in the states in rebellion, and only after he’d given up on them coming back into the union of their own accord.

FDR saved the country with the New Deal - which he was able to pass because it intentionally, but not overtly, excluded black people.

Which is was such an astoundingly big deal that we elected a black President twelve years ago…but history is rarely linear & straightforward…you make progress and then you take some steps back.

We need to get back into Progress Mode.