Just Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence

[hoping4betterdays]

47. Ignorance is Bliss but Ignorance is also Taught.

Ignorance is bliss for a reason, it's to keep you unaware so you won't have to feel or hurt. And the best way to insure that bliss is to keep silent. They don't want to hear about your suffering that they may have caused because that would require them to change and do something. Remaining ignorant to a cause keeps them safe. Even if it means letting you suffer in silence.

I heard the saying that "no child is born racist, they're taught racism", I believe that. I believe that teaching ignorance in our schools is a first step slash tool for securing white supremacy. Generation after generation is taught from one sided American history books from pre-k on to 12th grade. That's 13 years of lies & brainwashing that's ultimately hard to be undone. Our American history schoolbooks are fairytales depicting the pilgrims & confederate soldiers as "heroes & revolutionaries". They push fake patriotism to keep everyone in line. The books purposely left out all the reality & horror facts, they left out the murders, racism, violence. They teach that slaves were just happy maids & picking cotton on the plantations, some slavemasters were nice some not...that's it. My predominately white 100+ classmates were never taught about the slavemasters/their great great grandparents whipping, beating, lynching, raping or breeding their slaves. They're taught that slavery is ancient history & have no clue that a lot of the former slaves lived well until the 1940s like my late slave great great grandparents did. They're purposely not taught about Jim Crow laws or that the confederate statues were erected to put former slaves & their children in fear. Our white classmates/friends are taught to be ignorant to us on purpose & so were their parents & grandparents and so on. The ignorance taught is recycled generation to generation so CHANGE won't come. Hate likes to keep good people in the dark so they can't see what's happening so they CHANGE things. People pushing hateful agendas no the phrase "When you know better. You do better" is true. So they silence you.

Racism is a tactic of divide & conquer. With ignorance being so prevalent still til this day it's easy to sway those who don't know better yet. Black people can't stop racism because they never started it. A black person could be a saint & still might not get thru to a racist. That's why it's up to the majority to step up, i.e. the good ones who know better. They're the only voices with weight that someone ignorant or racist will hear. But as black people we've got to stop allowing our white friends to be ignorant to our black history & issues. We've got to start educating them, we've got to stop brushing off their ignorance because it's only really hurting us. And 45 knew it, used it & won. Ignorance was 45's bliss.