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JustAnotherGen

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7. Excellent references
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 09:40 AM
Dec 2021

I guess on the issue of Voting Rights - I'm solely focused on those of us who descend from Jim Crow in the USA. Our experience is very unique - in that we had promises made, and those promises aren't being kept.

Furthermore - I also descend from enslaved people in the deep South. One was a runaway to Mexico - who came home to buy Miss Gracie - and instead bought the land he had been enslaved on. Like -

My dad's family pre-dates a whole lot of folks of European descent who didn't 'build' America - and I'm beginning to really RESENT their descendants being in my way.

They are in my way.

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+1000 alwaysinasnit Dec 2021 #1
100%. LoisB Dec 2021 #2
I agree. brer cat Dec 2021 #3
The states are doing it along partisan lines JustAnotherGen Dec 2021 #4
If I may vent, further. old as dirt Dec 2021 #5
Don't get me wrong. old as dirt Dec 2021 #6
Excellent references JustAnotherGen Dec 2021 #7
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