I am A WOMAN BLACK AFRICAN AND ALSO AMERICAN WITH MY FAMILY ROOTS DEEPLY

[Heather MC]

Embedded, In the Southern Mountains of Virginia Since the 1700's. Well that's as far back as ancestry.com is able to trace my line so far on both my parents sides.

Not that I speak for the entire African American community. Nor can I, however I am a black woman.
And I've been around for quite a few decades not to long a respectable amount, almost 50 years.(48)

I came from a town that was comfortably openly racist even towards kindergarten children in Southern Virginia. They didn't call us the N-word in the eighties, But even as a four-year-old I understood the subtle racism we were living under. There was a clear racial divide in the town between where the black people lived, and rather white people resided. And even at 4 years old that's what it felt like, they allowed us to live in their presence in a very specific area. And so we grew up calling that "the white area" and our side of town was the black side town. And I knew about the stories of how the public pools got closed after they made integration legal. Because the powerful white people of the town didn't want to allow black people in their pools. Because when I was growing up I played in a park, Riverside Park, that held a never forgotten relic of Segregations past in Lynchburg VA. What IS left, was filled with dirt and grass growing over The former "White People Pool". However even today The evidence of segregations past still lives in that park. As a gentle whisper of a reminder to all of us, if they want to, "When we choose to, we can do it again."

And to their credit they didn't lie about it. They closed the pool to keep the black people out of it. When you grow up in a town with casual relics of racism laying around like that. You grow up observing racism your entire life Beginning at the age of 4 years old, for me.

My grandmother was a teacher in the town for 31 years. During segregation she taught at the black high school. That high school has etched in Stone DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL. It's still there even today. However, by the time I came along in 74.. The town had decided Dunbar high school was only worthy to be a high school to black kids. And now that school is a middle school instead. When you're a child learning to read and you're told the building is a middle school but what's etched in stone is high school. You find out why when you ask. And again it's Another subtle reminder that they get to decide whether our buildings are middle schools or high schools. And they get to allow us to always remember during integration we downgraded your school to just a middle school. It didn't deserve being a high school like the other 2 high schools that got to remain in that town.

I say all that to say this. When I look at the 2 parties. Democratic versus Republican party. I make my decision based on their ideologies. Not the people necessarily running for the open positions. Don't get me wrong they have importance. Let's face it progressive democrats are the future.💜

However, just looking at the 2 party ideologies I can't help but notice something. Something, I only recently realized, that I've been noticing since I was 4 years old. I can't help but notice that 1 party is a choice of freedom that we the people as a majority keep making over and over and over since Gore V Bush. And the other party keeps bending back to 1776 when only one minority group was able to speak for everyone.

And that is why I say the Republican party is a pro slavery party. And if we started honestly having that conversation about that party in that way.. We as a country would never be swayed by the Republican bullshit to make us believe that they are anything more than wanna-be slave owners again.

And so when I use the word SLAVERY, when I called the Republican party the pro slavery party. It is only because of what I have seen over the last 50 years. And the information that I have read and consumed. And all the history this country told us was so important for us to learn and so I did I love to learn about history.

And even when you hear them say "this is our 1776ers moment". There's a huge amount of republicans foaming at the mouth To drag this country kicking and screaming back to 1776.

I mean do you honestly think if they take away women's rights successfully. They will just stop there.

MY husband is white. The year he was born this country made biracial marriage legal in My Beautiful State of Virginia. And around the country. And right now the only thing keeping our marriage legal is the thought that maybe Clarence Thomas won't take away that right from us because he also has a white wife.

And to be perfectly honest with you I don't believe that's enough of a reason for a man like Clarence Thomas not to vote to get rid of my marriage.

And if they get a chance to do that. Do you think they will stop there?🤷🏾‍♀️


It is incumbent upon us to stop lying about what the Republican party is and what their ultimate agendas are. Listen to them when they say the 1950s was the best of America. Absolutely, for white men. They had women they could beat, maids they could rape, They had all the jobs. They had all the opportunity to make all the decisions. For the rest of us. They could even murder a young man like Emmett till, and then come on national TV after getting acquitted and tell the world what they did with a smile on their faces.

And that's what the republicans want us to do they want to drag us back to the 1950s with this facade of happiness because the white man was on top of everything.

And my saying that, people will call me the racist. Even though every word I just typed was 100% TRUTH

Do you agree?
That of course is your right to choose.
I Will just say this, I've lived too Damn long to start telling lies now💜

I gratefully ask one thing, If you decide to share what I have written with others please leave my name out of it. This country has a history of killing the messenger. And literally telling my life story puts my life in danger. Respect me enough as an unknown mother black American, WOMAN.

Please choose to help me, protect my family.
Thank you
💜