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How to Remain Positive When the World Around You is so Negative
Finding Joy During Unhappy Times
I write a lot about matters of race and American history, telling the stories the school books have neglected. As you can imagine, the topics aren’t always heartwarming. I have written about the forced breeding of enslaved women so that their children can be sold for profit. Another topic is the true history of the Founding Fathers, the early Presidents, and the first Supreme Court Justices. Most of them were owners of enslaved people and acted in their own interests to maintain that status (I’m looking especially at you, Thomas Jefferson).
To be sure, American history is full of examples where leaders tried to do better. Congress has passed multiple voting rights acts and civil rights acts. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court weakened or found unconstitutional each and every one. You may only be aware of the time in 2013 when they gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but I promise you, throughout American history, they have been busy. It would not have been possible for many of the forty-seven states currently trying to suppress minority votes to do so except for the actions of the Supreme Court.
People comment on the articles I write. Some thanking me for enlightening them to facts they were unaware of. Some called me racist for…
