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Thank you "the Wiltster"! My Substack is mostly my music and writing about my music and videos of my music, which you will either be into or not, but you're welcome to check it out and see if it's your cuppa tea! I do tread into contentious topics like race and gender now and again, but it's not my main thing, and people who want that continual flaming up will leave. We need beauty in our lives, and for me, that's making music. I always come at from the perspective of an artist, even when I do state my sometimes heterodox views. Part of being an artist, for me, is speaking truth to power. What bugs me about this whole Florida kerfuffle is that the MSM has not spoken truth. How can we ever be "one nation" again if we don't start telling the truth?

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"We need beauty in our lives..." Truer words seldom spoken! The MSM almost never speaks truth. 'Tis too boring, I reckon!

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I bet you're married to a white woman who's ultra-rightwing conservative like Ginny Thomas, the woman who worked for the racist John Birch Society.

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It will be interesting to observe the Conservative response to the “brawl” in Alabama. If history is a guide, there will be some fault found with Black people coming the aid of a Black man. I’m sure Fox and other Conservative outlets will opine.

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I've seen memes on FB: "Not happening in a small town." 😂☺️🤣

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I find this discussion fascinating. The Florida department of education can’t properly name people who benefited from slavery, yet they still have Conservative support. The department is allowing Orager U to lie to elementary school children and Conservatives stand mute. If you disagree with the nonsense, you are accused of creating division. I am actually glad that I signed up for the website. You get to see the emptiness of Conservative policies on race. The Alabama legislature is a prime example of how Conservatives feel about Black voters. The Alabama legislature wants Blacks to be docile and be unable to cast a vote. None of the viable Republican Presidential candidates will say a word about the atrocity.

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6 Mississippi police officers recently pled guilty to torturing two black males at a residence for 2 hours...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/us/mississippi-deputies-torture-black-men-charged/index.html

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A Black man, Patrick Braxton, ran unopposed for mayor in 2020 and after winning, named an all-Black town council. The existing white mayor and majority-white council responded by seeking to oust him and retain their offices.

https://www.wsj.com › articles › ne...

Political and Legal Scandal Rocking a Small Alabama Town: Who's the Mayor?

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