I had written a blog where I was trying to educate people about the race and class situation in this country. I also included personal experienced of my family. I highlighted facts from history.

I keep comments to this post that start with a statement that answers this the following question. all others WILL be deleted. If you do not volunteer to make life better for those less fortunate...I am not interested in what you say.

WHAT DO YOU DO TO MAKE THIS A BETTER WORLD?

The comments that I received did in no way deal with the content of my blog, but said I taught my children to hate because I taught them about slavery, the Tuskegee Experiment, the smallpox blankets, etc. I discussed my blog with a communist, white, Canadian-born, friend who volunteers with me and she said it had to do with guilt. People in this country avoid any discussion of the historical injustices. People tend to feel to talk about the past just stirs up trouble.

Well, that is what they used to tell children who suffered sexual abuse. Don't talk about it, just sweep it under the rug. I suffered sexual abuse and for years did not talk about it for many years. It affected my life for years and still does. My daughters were also molested in later years. They received therapy, but I did not until I was in my forties. I never told my mother until after I was fifty years old. I truly believe that it was the secrecy that cause both my daughters to suffer abuse. Because we did not talk about it. My children did not know that I was molested until after I discovered they had been. Maybe if I had discussed abuse with my children, they could avoided this trauma.

But I do know, people who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. If we do not discuss the short and long term effects of racism, it will raise it's ugly head again. It already has in the hate crimes against gender, and the noose incidents. It is only when people understand that there is institutional abuse when speech is regulated. And we do our children great harm by not owning up to the injustices of this country's past.

In Germany, they study what led up to and during the Nazi regime. It is not swept under a rug, like slavery and reservations. It is discussed in the schools so that history will not be repeated. In this country we can not have intelligent dialog about institutional abuses because people get their feelings hurt.

Well boo hoo! Rewriting history does not make it go away. The Klan is alive and well. Don't you read the Southern Law Poverty Report. I thought I lived in a country where people read, but I guess if they elect a C student for president, they can't...