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I heard a man is coming to speak at a local college soon, some students had invited him, to hear an outside point-of-view. But then a loud majority got up in arms over the talk, said they opposed supremacy, at the man’s presence they did balk. Said they hated white extremists, and that they didn’t need him hear, that students should be on campus without having to live ‘in fear.’ That this man would marginalize all of the students black and brown, they started holding loud protests, shouted their anger through the town. Now I am no fan of racists, I learned all about Civil Rights, and if this man was all they said then I wanted to join the fight. So I looked up his videos, and found myself rather confused, first off the man was biracial, and a lover of freedom too. He didn’t speak of skin or tints, he spoke only of what’s inside, how when you get to know a man you do not see them with your eyes, you see the person as he is, eecognize the totality, that such defined what all men are, their individuality. That to leave behind past problems, the great mistake that some call 'race,' just take people one at a time, and all of this nonsense will fade. That’s what professors and students had gathered together to fight? This man that they all called ‘racist’ was the only one thinking right! It wasn’t too long after that I saw a woman on a show, a homemaker with eight children, and how she managed it, you know? I didn’t think much at the time, but the internet was ablaze, women were screaming out "traitor," "brainwashed by patriarchal ways!" Her husband came to her defense, how staying at home was her choice, then they all called him a sexist, said he had snuffed a woman’s voice. It really set off quite a row, and I admit, I saw both sides, women worked hard so they could work, I found It quite hard to decide. But that homemaker had a site, a blog about big family life, where she shared all that she had learned of being a mother and wife. She spoke of falling happiness amongst women for six decades, articles of work choices that a lot of working women made. How many still longed for children, or put it off for far too long, eesearch into the importance of how young kids and parents bond, Looks deep into psychology, how evolution built our brains, that even equal under law men and women don’t choose the same... CONCLUDES IN PART II.
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