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Kennedy 🫎 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 My grandmother was black. She was a light skinned woman. She passed for “white” in an effort to combat #racism 

Would you be okay with someone like her portraying Cleopatra? 

It’s 2024 & multiple people have mixed blood lines. There is value in accepting that. Your idealized version of humans from the past is flawed. They most certainly were righteous & never killed anyone over something as trivial as their place of birth or religion. That’s sarcasm.
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Karnage | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's not up to me to "be ok with". If there was mixing of bloodlines outside of the traditional incestuous behavior, then yeah she could be mixed. But we don't have any evidence of that.
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Kennedy 🫎 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Fair enough. I can clearly see the evidence you’re providing of continually wanting to believe in ancient history. Cool.

What are you doing to make the world a better place now? Others have chosen to systematically divide others via ideologies. “Woke” is the same as any other -ism. (Below) Let’s work together to build bridges. 

That is the only way change will ever happen. Otherwise the world will continue to be divided further into the us versus them that #humanity has done forever. 

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Portion of one of my poems 

Then the - isms
Keep the pawns fighting amongst theirselves 
Religion, class, race and sex
Divided caste chattel is US society
We’ve bought into “freedom” ideology 
“Let them eat fast food.”
We ignore or berate those unlike us. 
This keeps us constantly wrestling