Plog Number 142
Spring Forward
Hello Ploggers, how are you. Hope you are having a Super Sunday! This is the shortest Sunday of the year as we go into Daylight Savings time. I love the extra daylight 🌞 at the end of the day. If it were up to me, we would stay that way all year long. Today we spent time with family and that is always time well spent. No matter how your relationships with your siblings were as children, you will appreciate them more when you are adults. My brother and sisters are the world to me and I really want my daughter to know and love them too. The most annoying little brother or know it all big sister will mellow with age. I promise you this. You will discuss things you did as kids like they are precious, 😊 which they are.
My brother and I were talking today about Ancient Kemet and Black history. History is a huge topic everywhere these days. A part of that is due to the reprehensible Ron DeSantis. The total opposite effect of his book 📚 bans and teaching anything that remotely has to do with Black History is that many of us are 🎤 discussing it more than ever. I LOVE ❤️🔥THAT! Black history month is over, but the talk goes on. I truly believe that De Santis is only making such a stand because he wants to run for President and this whitewashing of history plays well with the MAGA, Republican voters. He is using Florida as a stepping stool to the Presidency. Never mind that there are Floridians who are also marginalized. Not sure how that is supposed to work. I can barely tolerate a trip to Miami or offer a dime of support to a state that spouts such hate through its elected Govornor. So talking about history is a big deal these days. I am hoping that the Millenials will not stand for the blindfold 🙈 that many want to put on education.
Lets talk about President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He signed the Civil Rights Act into law and advanced the cause in 1964. The law helped eliminate voting discrimination against African Americans. But Johnson was pretty smart about some other things too. He had evidently seen enough of the world that he learned a thing or two about people and race. He said something to the effect of “If you can convince the poorest white man that he is better than a black man, you can pick his pockets all day!” Now that is a powerful statement. It is as if present day politicians have taken that sentiment to heart. Tie together what De Santis is currently doing in Florida in order to win over future voters. Telling undereducated, white people that their ancestors were benevolent and that they did NOT do horrible things to our black ancestors puffs them up. It unites them in a way so that they can vote against their own best 💸 interests on election day. It also absolves them from any feelings of guilt or regret about their heritage. It is an interesting theory. By white 🎨 washing history, it is possible to control the present and the future. History really matters. If it didn't, why are so many trying to change it? RECLAIM!
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