"News" about a century late. And without KML's noticing it, I for one would not have seen it.
Robbery against an ancestor's class remains a robbery against their descendants, compounded by such practices as flouting equal application of laws and punishments, redlining, and otherwise denying state and federal benefits to, for ex…
"News" about a century late. And without KML's noticing it, I for one would not have seen it.
Robbery against an ancestor's class remains a robbery against their descendants, compounded by such practices as flouting equal application of laws and punishments, redlining, and otherwise denying state and federal benefits to, for example, African American farmers.
Their descendant's lives remain impoverished and diminished by generations of unrequited and compounded debt, and properties expropriated.
The expiration of a racist tax exemption merely ends the compounded damage, it does not undo the damages those dollars caused in raising monuments to carry on memories of two oppressors' organizations.
Faulkner was right. The past is never in the past-- must less, dead. As shown by this non-action of the governor of one past-Confederate state, there's still a bucketful of karma to be unwound.
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"News" about a century late. And without KML's noticing it, I for one would not have seen it.
Robbery against an ancestor's class remains a robbery against their descendants, compounded by such practices as flouting equal application of laws and punishments, redlining, and otherwise denying state and federal benefits to, for example, African American farmers.
Their descendant's lives remain impoverished and diminished by generations of unrequited and compounded debt, and properties expropriated.
The expiration of a racist tax exemption merely ends the compounded damage, it does not undo the damages those dollars caused in raising monuments to carry on memories of two oppressors' organizations.
Faulkner was right. The past is never in the past-- must less, dead. As shown by this non-action of the governor of one past-Confederate state, there's still a bucketful of karma to be unwound.