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I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species manage to survive with many means of self destruction at their disposal? Atomic stockpiles nothing but ticking time bombs, and prior to advent regarding weapons of mass destruction, the histories of civilizations replete with one after another ingenious modus operandi for opposing forces resorting to horrendous feats of killing each other. I especially mention after reading (for the second time) This Hallowed Ground, (which would probably be banned by Republican party of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a subtle plug for aforementioned book) written by Bruce Catton, a prolific author whose specialty constitutes American Civil War era; both antebellum and postbellum, the latter a radically transformed geographic area of thee contiguous United States begat twenty first century disenfranchisement between descendents of Northern European settlers and persons of color African ancestors. Fierce internecine warfare (impossible mission for yours truly to comprehend such bloody hatred between Northerners and Southerners) infused each Yankee and so called Johnny with unimaginable vitriol. Structural racism born linkedin to manumission, which institution of slavery (the bedrock of king cotton industry) divested plantation owners their chattel (persons of color) as purported property. Hierarchical caste system (of the down) of sorts alive and well from sea to shining sea, where gerrymandering disallows representative government, which invariably means ways to sabotage opportunities for people of color and other minorities reduced to an inescapable disadvantage. Blatant inequality (and/or ambiguity promising select subsets of the original thirteen colonies life, liberty and pursuit of happiness) baked into original Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, fomenting violent upheaval tearing society four score and seven years after the founding fathers sought autonomy severely testing nearly fracturing the fragile then still nascent republic experimenting with democracy mainly for the vested gentry, an exclusively male club, even further limited to land owners with sprawling plantations. Some Anti Abolitionists (more prevalent north of the Mason-Dixon line) verging on the extreme as "bleeding heart liberal" longed to foster freedom for the oppressed whose shrill voice expedited impacted (my presumption) chain of events that triggered vis a vis expansion of human beings with noticeably more melanin in their skin concerning the territories that had not yet become states general, and salvo of first shot at Fort Sumter, Charleston South Carolina in particular. Quite a few generations elapsed since the bloodiest carnage until the first World War, (and subsequent global mortal kombat) wrought a death toll exceeding 520,000 American fatalities presaging the Civil Rights Movement, yet even today (June 16th, 2023), a great disparity of privilege more or less guaranteed to Caucasian males unless an individual representative (outside that arbitrary skin color) gifted academically, artistically, athletically, et cetera.
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