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cbabe

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3. First we need to own our history. I believe so much vicious behavior is

Reply to BWdem4life (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:38 AM

Sep 16

our true heritage. Nothing will change until we ‘truth and reconciliation’.

Brought to the new world from the old. Doctrine of Discovery. Destruction of the land as a ‘right’. From genocide of natives to slavery.

And Calvinism. The puritans have a lot to answer for.

Trying to bury our past makes people crazy. And leads to more violence and self-hatred.

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