It has been a banner evening over at Yokel headquarters as we turned the pages of today’s Reconsideration Committee report! What a treat we have for you, dear readers, as sanity once more wins out in our nice county!
For a long time now we’ve tried to tell Cindy and al. that they don’t understand what the word pornography means. (Here’s the link in which we tried to educate) What we came to see, as we perused this report, is not only were we unable to dissuade her of this erroneous definition, but she and her two minions took their misunderstanding to a whole new level. These books are apparently illegal because of their very poor understanding of the meaning of that word.
We have a real vocabulary problem here folks!
Before we get to some examples of the evaluation of these books, we need to share some more of the written and verbal testimony from both Cindy and current board member (!) Nancy Allen!
Let’s start with why Cindy doesn’t believe that she actually has to read the books:
How’d you like that logic! Let’s keep going….
Does she not know that everyone can read this? Love the characterization of middle schoolers as hormonal, irrational beasts based on one anecdote that we are 100% positive her granddaughter did not want her to make part of the public record!
She continues on her journey…..
UMMMMMMMMM.. This shouldn’t have become political? From the women who strives to make everything political?!
It sure as hell is!
Now, we aren’t just going to focus on Cindy’s misconstructions, as we also have evidence of current board member (!) Nancy Allen’s problems with definitions:
Child pornography!!!!! Remember that when you get to the evaluation section of our post.
Now, let’s talk about that Miller Test because that is the standard the hard working people who spent hours actually reading and discussing these books used to evaluate these books:
Now, scroll back up and see if Cindy’s interpretation matches. If you don’t want to, we’ll save you the time and say it absolutely doesn’t.
Now let’s look at a couple of examples from committee applying The Miller Test to the books Cindy found so offensive.
We read this one over and over and over again. And we laughed and laughed and laughed! The word “mate” really got to us.
Hide your kids!!!
Here’s another one we enjoyed:
“We did not see the above things in the book”!!!! What a colossal waste of everyone’s time this was!
So, the committee gave two recommendations:
And…
The one book they removed had a similar YA version, so the committee felt as though that book would suffice. But it looks like your Lady Yokels need to start reading Ellen Hopkins’ books!
Overall, a resounding victory for intellectual freedom and sanity. So how is our friend Cindy doing on her day of resounding defeat? NOT SO GOOD…..
Well, we know someone isn’t eating from that tree!
Also, FCPS is going to start allowing parents to prohibit their child from checking out books they don’t want them to read. Therefore, if this is really about protecting their children from themes they don’t believe they are ready for and not about marginalizing groups of people and opinions they find offensive, then this case is officially closed.
We are so sorry to have to break this to you, but Dan Cox is actually running for Congress. We say “actually” because if you remember back to July he reported his own “false filing” that was done by an employee of his.
The most amusing part of this low rent announcement is the dog trotting back and forth and the sounds of a cat growling in the background. Seems like the Cox pets even know this run is bullshit.
If you can’t stomach the video we can paraphrase:
We need to close the border because all the criminals crossing over and killing everyone in District 6 with the Fentanyl. We are the only ones with “reason” and “kindness” and we need to be the ones with “valor” and must have “faith over fear”. So go to his website, except don’t go to www.coxforcongress.com ,because it’s so much better.
Let’s remind y’all what kind of “reason” and “kindness” Dan practices in case we have some memory lapses.
First of all Dan Cox is a product (and a former teacher) of Wellspring (formerly Walkersville) Christian School that his father started in the 1980s. You can read the whole Washington Post article here, but we are going to focus on a couple of passages:
In a videotaped lecture posted online for a course entitled “Biblical Foundations for Family Life,” Gary Cox tells students that “the protection of the wife from satanic destruction is by being tucked under the headship of her husband as God ordained it.” Referring to Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he adds: “There’s a picture here of someone ruling and someone being ruled … a picture of voluntary submission. It’s important that the wife, again, desire to be under submission. It’s pretty much impossible to rule over somebody that doesn’t want to be ruled.”
Read that a couple of times if you need to. Dan was brought up to believe that women must submit to their husbands. S-U-B-M-I-T! How’s that reasoning for you ladies?! Shall we have a guessing game as to what kind of laws Dan would vote for that we would have to submit to?
Let’s continue on our journey:
Cox’s connection to the world of religious home schooling remains as much personal as political. Among the private security guards — wearing bulletproof vests and holstered pistols — who turned journalists away from a recent rally at a farm in Carroll Countywas a graduate of Walkersville Christian Family Schools.
It was Josiah, the candidate’s son, who at his 2015 graduation ceremony had listened with his classmates as Dan Cox urged them to take seriously the words from Romans 14:8: “Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”
Whew! Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. That’s just downright chilling.
If this isn’t enough, don’t forget about his copy and pasted law suits during Covid, his absolute trouncing during the last gubernatorial election, and the fact that though he and his children have never seen the inside of a public school as a student, he thinks that he not only knows that goes on there, but he should legislate about it.
We’ll leave you with a gallery of dumb dumbs from his Facebook page for you ponder:
And the piece d’ restitance:
Lock all those filthy teachers up! Hopefully there will be a strong enough Republican candidate to knock him out of the primary come May, but we aren’t holding our breath.
If you’ve got some extra time, go ahead and look at our past posts about him:
Yesterday evening, as you have probably seen, there was a Board of Education meeting in which Policy 443 was featured in public debate, both inside the meeting and out on the sidewalk. This is basically a policy that allows students to be addressed by the pronouns they prefer and use the facilities they find appropriate for their gender. If you have been following our Facebook posts this will be redundant information, but to no one’s surprise more than ours, we again agree with Cindy Rose about something. These concerned parents couldn’t be bothered to notice when this policy was adopted, so now they think their inattention constitutes some kind of emergency (and perhaps it does, but that kind of deadbeat parenting is a home thing, not a school thing). Most of the deadbeats seem to be affiliated with Moms for Liberty and the coalition with Tom Neumark–whatever it is that thinks he is doing. Think of him as the general in charge of handmaids.
If you attended this and felt like there were a lot of assholes represented at this event, that’s because theyurntfrumheere. There was a large and noisy group of mercenaries in this culture war who look shockingly like the creeps who follow Bob Roberts in the brilliant 1992 film that we are afraid to rewatch because satire of that era probably pales in comparison to our current reality. They are very weird–the Crusaders from Pennsylvania, we mean. Not unimportantly they do use the term Crusade, like the Medieval thinkers that they are. They have been doing “important” “work” for years like protesting the Da Vinci Code film. That seems like time well spent. Basically they are the Catholic analogue of the Westboro Baptist Church. And here they are finding fellowship with the Moms for Liberty and Tom Neumark. Gross.
You simply must take a look at the photograph in the Frederick News Post for a good look at these crazy people. The one next to the bagpiper looks exactly like Jack Black here…oh, yeah, there were bagpipes. And drums. And then a group broke away to chant the rosary and encircle the building. And people think séances are weird. I mean, we are also people who think that, but we also think séances seem like fun, and this…doesn’t.
Anyway, the whole big deal is stupid. Yes, a lot of people are hearing a lot about transgender people for the first time in their lives. Look, gender really is a social construct and those constructs have changed over time and now women wear pants and get short haircuts and are in the military and go to college, and men change diapers. Man, that Barbie movie really did have it right. Seems like men could do a little more…Perhaps the social construct is changing a lot right now in ways some people find difficult and confusing. But you know what? Acting like an asshole isn’t actually going to stop that, and unless you can turn off the internet and the rest of society for an entire generation, you aren’t going to affect it by being mean to people who feel like they would be happier with these changes in their life. Just be nice, FFS. (P.S. We know we are preaching to the choir.)
Today was supposed to be a day of new beginnings. A time when students and teachers get to know one another and start building those relationships that will flourish throughout the year. However, one teacher at Linganore High is going to be rethinking their career choices because of one very dumb complaint.
A alert reader let us know some nonsense was afoot on the Moms of Liberty Frederick page, and sent us some very disturbing screenshots. Let’s start with what one parent posted on the group:
Hmmm. Let’s break this down… why would a kid prefer to be called another name? Maybe a Christopher likes Chris, or a Jennifer, Jenny? And yes, there’s a small portion of kids who are exploring their gender identity and may not want to tell Mom and Dad just yet. If you are so worried, why not try having a conversation with your kid?!
Anyone who has been to a doctor’s appointment, or actually signed up for school, knows that this is what is asked. But apparently it caused such an uproar amongst these ladies they decided to publish the teachers name and demand retribution! And just who do you think pushed this person over the edge? You know who…
OH PLEASSSEEE! She doesn’t hate to say it, she takes great joy in it! And now, on the 2nd day of the school year, educators and administrators need to take precious time to deal with the nonsense.
There’s more, because of course there is….
Isn’t this a delightful exchange? So, we are going to “play by their rules” and make sure that everyone sees what is happening to our teachers and our schools. These people turned what should of been a nice day into a nightmare. Seriously, we don’t know who is going to want to be an educator with people like this out there. But, don’t forget that is the whole point of the Moms For Liberty, to diminish trust in the educational system so they can demolish it. If you are in the Linganore feeder, maybe send your kids in with some doughnuts and coffee tomorrow…sounds like they are going to need it.
Right over the border in Carroll County the Moms of Liberty (snicker, barf), got 39 books removed from CCPS while a Reconsideration Committee decides their fate. You can peruse the whole list here, but of course your friendly Lady Yokels are going to give you some examples.
Yes that Wicked!
Our hearts just hurt watching this. We are going to assume that many of our followers are readers, and we therefore we want you to remember back to your high school days and to that book that changed you. Think about all of the books that have changed you in some way, and then imagine a bunch of non-readers (yeah we are going to go ahead and make that assumption with a whole lotta confidence) tried to take those books away. What part of you wouldn’t exist because you hadn’t read that book?
Moms of Liberty formed as a protest group to all of the Covid-19 restrictions they believed were unnecessary. These so-called “joyful warriors” (yes that’s the same language our very own local book banner, Cindy Rose, likes to use) needed to find another cause to keep that cash flowing when all the restrictions lifted. So, they decided to go after diversity (which they ignorantly call CRT) in the curriculum( or more accurately American History) and LGBTQ+ folks. They’ve pushed themselves into the national spotlight in such a way that Republican Presidential candidates believe they have to court these folks. They even presented Ron DeSantis with his very own liberty sword! How Nice!
When books are written about the collapse of American Civilization, that will be on the cover.
This group of bored Covid deniers have recently been labeled an extremist group by the Southern Law Poverty Center because:
“What we’ve been watching really closely around this particular group… [are] times when they show up with other groups that have explicitly advocated or committed intimidations and violence,” Hiller said. “There are cases at school boards in North Carolina, for example, where Moms for Liberty showed up together with Proud Boys and were part of intimidating the school board.” Carroll Rivas echoed this observation.
“Their organizing is quite concerning for how it harms communities, but also because of the associations with other hard right groups that they’ve really had since their inception,” she said.
Some members of Moms for Liberty chapters have also been accused — and in at least one case, convicted — of harassment.
And, hmmm, weren’t they popping up around here last election…..
Two of those ladies still pop up at school board meetings to promote anti-inclusionary measures.
We need to keep our school board sane as we’ve already heard about some of the folks gearing up for a run next time and IT IS NOT GOOD. Our school system is currently reviewing books because of Cindy Rose et al. and we all need to stand up to make sure this nonsense goes no further. These conservative groups are trying to destroy American education. First, they do things like tell people the schools are making white kids feel bad about themselves, or allowing them to find out that gay people actually exist. Then they sow so much doubt and get people all riled up (remember when folks around here spread the rumor that kindergarteners were being taught about anal sex because we sure as hell do) and then they take over the school board. Afterwards, the curriculum is dumbed down to the point that the kids in that district have a tough time making in the world outside of the county they grew up in.(And if you don’t think this has happened do some reading on the old coal towns. Coal executives sat on those school boards and do you think academics were emphasized by people who needed the local population to go into the mines? Not at all.)Throw on top of that the feeling amongst many elite Republican donors that public schools should all be privatized so they can make a pretty dime on them! It’s all a recipe for disaster!
We sure hope this guy is right:
Carroll County will regress to the point where high educated and professional demographics will stop migrating and property values will dramatically drop. The GOP is always working against their own interests!
But, we still don’t want to see things get this far in Frederick County.
There are a couple of groups besides the Moms of Liberty working towards hurting kids and dumbing down our school curriculums. Make sure you stay alert to these threats. We know it’s exhausting, but we can’t let them win.
If you even have a memory of our pre-Covid world, you may remember a contingent of folks who said that Clinton and Trump were the same. We scoffed at that characterization at the time, and NOW we want to make sure that idiotic notion is removed from everyone’s thought process…FOREVER!
A little over a year ago we wrote a post lamenting the dismantling of Roe V. Wade. In the year since that decision, we’ve seen states restrict a woman’s right to control her own body in a variety of Handmaid Tale ways. The hopefully unintended consequences of these laws have been OB/GYNs leaving those states, rape and incest victims being further traumatized, and a variety of other outcomes as outlined in this NIH study.
This week presented us with even more evidence as to how both candidates were not the same! A few days back we saw the court attack affirmative action programs because apparently discrimination is a thing of the past!
Today they took the right to discriminate even further. A web designer, who had never even been asked to create a website for a gay wedding, sued the state of Colorado because she feared that one day she may be asked to do so! Yes you read that right! We also just saw this woman on MSNBC and she said this was a victory for everyone! Because everyone should have the right to make other people’s lives as difficult as possible because they believe you are destined for hell!
(Be sure to read the quote she chose to have displayed behind her. Cognitive dissonance is a real problem in this country!)
Public accommodation laws have been in place since the 1960s. If you chose to open a business that serves the public then you serve the public! So, now let’s think about what’s going to happen as a result of this ruling. We already have a former gubernatorial candidate declaring that taking your kids to a pride festival is child abuse (scroll down to the post he made from a screenshot from Everything Frederick, be sure to read the comments as well). Not to mention we’ve had to deal with Cindy Rose and her new Transparency in Education alliance who wants to equate gay rights with grooming children for sexual abuse. Frederick County Government also did a nice post about the Pride festival and the winning of a lego set and some of our local numbskulls are now using it as an opportunity to show their homophobic nature. This case will embolden these types of people. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing signs that refuse service to LGBTQ+ people. Don’t be surprised when we start to see more violence as well. What a dark day.
Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. Specifically, the Court holds that the First Amendment exempts a websitedesign company from a state law that prohibits the company from denying wedding websites to same-sex couples if the company chooses to sell those websites to the public. The Court also holds that the company has a right to post a notice that says, “‘no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.’”
And….
Now the Court faces a similar test. A business open to the public seeks to deny gay and lesbian customers the full and equal enjoyment of its services based on the owner’s religious belief that same-sex marriages are “false.” The business argues, and a majority of the Court agrees, that because the business offers services that are customized and expressive, the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment shields the business from a generally applicable law that prohibits discrimination in the sale of publicly available goods and services. That is wrong. Profoundly wrong. As I will explain, the law in question targets conduct, not speech, for regulation, and the act of discrimination has never constituted protected expression under the First Amendment. Our Constitution contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group. I dissent.
And if you don’t think Republicans won’t try to expand restrictions to other groups, we don’t have any words for you, except maybe “Bless Your Heart”. We can’t even get into the loan forgiveness decision because there is just so much we can deal with in a day. But we will say one thing. When one of your Lady Yokels was having her first baby Yokel in the early 2000s, one of her co workers lamented the fact that 6 weeks maternity leave (!) was paid for while they only got 2. And not lamented in a way that progress was made, she thought it was unfair. Therefore, if we go by that logic, and by extension the logic of some of these student loan forgiveness dissenters, nothing should ever change ever because of “fairness”. It’s really amazing that human civilization has evolved as far as it has.
It’s supposed to be a time of relaxation. The kids are out for summer, the weather is nicer, and everyone should be slowing their roll. But alas, tis not the case round these parts!
We all know about the High Sheriff’s indictment, but you may not know that Jenkins is feigning victimhood! According to the Frederick News Post, Jenkins regrets signing the letters, claims he was “duped” into signing them AND because he didn’t receive anything in return, it shouldn’t matter anyway. Is that how the law works….no it is not! According to aforementioned article the government responded to Jenkins’ claim in this fashion:
Finally, the response said Jenkins’ assertion that he didn’t receive anything from Krop in return for the letters didn’t mean that Jenkins was absolved of the crimes or of fraud. Jenkins’ motion argued that there was no evidence Jenkins benefited from the alleged conspiracy, and that there was no fraud.
“The fact that Jenkins did not receive anything of monetary value in return does not speak to [the letters’] falsity,” the response said.
Seems to us that if you are the High Sheriff, there’s certain points of law you should be acquainted with! Dan Cox’s claims, in his poor attempt to throw out the charges against his client, were hilariously refuted by the government as well. We present the following for your viewing pleasure:
“The Government will not address the various inaccurate factual assertions that Krop made in these 44 pages, the erroneous legal arguments he advances in them or the political statements he makes which have nothing to do with either the law or facts in this case,” the response said.
The first point the government pushed back on was Krop’s allegation that he and Jenkins were misrepresented to the grand jury and in the indictment since they were addressed in the past tense. For example, the indictment says Krop was a Frederick County resident, not that he is a Frederick County resident.
The government said this use of past tense was standard practice, and included a citation to the definition of “past tense” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Cox did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.
The government then criticized Krop’s references to an ATF agent who is a former Ukrainian resident, calling them unacceptable “personal attacks.”
It also accused him of going on a “fishing expedition” in the grand jury process, despite having no evidence that any wrongdoing occurred.
Several of Krop’s motions asked for certain evidence to be turned over. The government said that everything he was asking for had already been turned over to him, and that he signed a document, like Jenkins, that he would get additional information a week before trial.
Finally, the government pushed back on Krop’s claim that the search and seizure at The Machine Gun Nest was unlawful. It argued that there was probable cause, which stemmed from lawful investigation, and a lawful warrant.
Side note: Read this great editorial of this whole situation by Matt Edens.
To make things even more crazy, today the Frederick News Post reported that Jenkins’ leave of absence isn’t really an absence as he’s still collecting his full salary AND attending meetings.
In a phone interview on Thursday, Jenkins said he attended sheriff’s office budget meetings and has gone back to the office on occasion to do work.
He said the letter about his administrative leave speaks for itself.
“I am still the head of the agency,” he said. “That’s not going to change.”
Jenkins wrote in the letter that Col. David Benjamin would take on day-to-day operations of the sheriff’s office and “perform the duties of the Sheriff.”
Not sure if the High Sheriff understands what a leave of absence is!
In other happenings, we recently shared an article on our Facebook account about who interacts with local government the most. As you may guess it’s the 55 and up crowd. Don’t think for a moment that we are in anyway disparaging the older crowd as we Lady Yokels are practically there ourselves, but they can’t be the only ones giving their feedback.
And those other wheels have opinions too!
Here’s two examples of what we are dealing with around here. First of all, we have this FCPS reconsideration committee that’s examining books that Cindy Rose et al. decided that no kid should be allowed to read. (If you haven’t read it yet, look at our legislative suggestions on how to curb the problem of a handful of people being allowed to potentially ban books.) Her research consisted of going to ratedbooks.com and printing out the most salacious bits. While her opinion may matter, being a local citizen and all, she needs pushback. (Thankfully we’ve all pushed her back from sitting on the school board itself four times now!) Another example of the older crowd attempting to influence the school board is the former Citigroup executive who has taken up the mantle of banning transkids from sports, not allowing these same kids to identify as their gender of choice in school, and has complained on our posts about the imagined teaching of CRT in the public school system. He’s been joined by the likes of Tom Neumark, who likes to write about how horrible FCPS is in the editorial section of the FNP. The formerly mentioned executive claims on his website that he got into this game, despite having no children in FCPS and with no background in education, because of failing scores on tests. However, the only things he’s been vocal about are the same things that national Republican party has used as scare mongering techniques in order to get more votes. If you haven’t seen it, and these folks should take a look as well if they weren’t so allergic to actual journalism, there’s a great article explaining how the American Principles Project needed to find a new social issue to rile up their side and transgender kids is what they landed on. All of this book banning, anti-history, and discriminating against gay and trans people is all part of the Republican strategy to win back votes. We cannot allow it to happen in our neck of the woods. So make sure you check the Board of Education’s agenda, and the county council’s agenda in order to give your feedback. It’s when the majority doesn’t pay attention that these folks and their outdated and harmful ideas sneak in.
There’s sparks of hope that the Trump way of governing is losing its sheen around here. A group that pretends to be non partisan tried to organize a pro-Trump rally on the overpass on Route 15 on Monocacy Blvd. last week. Guess how many people showed up?
Maybe we can all get back to some sense of normalcy soon!
And don’t forget to attend Frederick Pride tomorrow! All the best people will be there.
We will begin this post by addressing the very bad defense of the High Sheriff. His innocence apparently hinges on his ignorance:
At worst, Sheriff Jenkins was duped by Krop into providing these demonstration letters, without ever knowing or having reason to know that Krop’s motive was to gain financially from TMGN’s special permission to possess and to import, even to obtain, these weapons. In all the discovery produced to date, there is no material that shows or establishes any financial incentive or fraudulent intent on the part of Sheriff Jenkins.
And, technically, that means Jenkins is too naive or dumb (or both!) to serve the county, and therefore should resign his position….forthwith! Also, ignorance is never a great legal strategy, so good luck with that!
Jenkins’ lawyer also thinks it would be “profoundly unfair” if he had to be tried in the same trial as Robert Krop. After reading through the defense that Dan Cox has concocted, we may have to say this is one of the few times we are in agreement with the High Sheriff. Today, the Baltimore Banner reported on Cox’s strategy and we’ve seen some doozies from Dan, but this one really takes the cake!
Krop’s attorney, meanwhile, filed a scathing, 107-page motion making a wide variety of allegations, including calling the prosecution politically motivated and questioning the Ukrainian background of the lead ATF agent on the case.
“If [the agent] has not denounced his Ukrainian citizenship the warrant must be immediately quashed and the indictment dismissed,” wrote Krop’s attorney, former Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox.
We are old enough to remember when Republicans used to be anti-Russia. And ANYONE who showed any pro-Russian inclination was labeled an anti-American communist! Oh how the winds of Trump have changed these folks! And to let it permeate your legalese and thereby jeopardize the freedom of your client is top shelf MAGA!
Also, if Dan thinks that he can question people’s ethnicities we are going to throw that strategy right back in his face! According to Wikipedia:
The surnameCox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. There are also two native Scottish & Irish surnames which were anglicized into Cox.
Therefore we demand that Cox publicly denounce King Charles II immediately. For how do we know Dan’s not a Tory trying to bring America under monarchical control? Next thing we know he’ll be making us drink warm beer and eat beans and mash!
Yes, Dan it sounds just as stupid when you do it.
ICYMI, The Washington Post ran a great article about some former members of Dan Cox’s father’s homeschool racket. Make sure you read it, but here’s our favorite quote:
“People who think the public schools are indoctrinating don’t know what indoctrination is. We were indoctrinated,” Aaron says. “It’s not even comparable.”
The aforementioned article enlightens us to the fact that in Dan Cox’s world women are only suitable to be mothers and sparing the rod is a big no-no when it comes to disciplining your children.
Thank you Maryland for not saddling us with this guy!
If you haven’t heard something really horrible happened around here earlier this week:
Not sure who is reacting with the shocked face, because anyone who knows even a quarter of the history of this country should not be shocked. Even sadness is not appropriate, it should only be anger. Anger and some kind resolution to help repair our sick culture is all that is needed right now.
Let’s first focus on the subject of that aforementioned meeting. It also should not come as a shock that black mothers face more difficulties during pregnancy, more still births, and more birth complications than white women. If this subject is somehow new to you, there’s a documentary called Aftershock that can help you get up to speed. The reasons for this are rooted in racism, and the subject that some people don’t even want to teach their kids about, slavery.
The whole debate about CRT and teaching kids accurate history emboldens ignorant folk, like the ones that thought it was A-OK to come into a public health meeting and spew their vitriol all over everyone else. When we allow people to ban courses on African American history, when we refuse to acknowledge the actual history of our country, and when we sit back and feign surprise this incident occurred; we allow these bad actors a stage. And we are all to blame for it.
There is no debate to be had about whether or not to teach the truth about slavery or the struggle for equal rights in this country. For hundreds of years we have allowed people to put forth a mythology and hero worship version of American history that has not served any of us well. We need to frame ourselves around what Thomas Jefferson first wrote, and later what Elizabeth Cady Stanton fixed for him 72 years later:
We hold these truths to be self – evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That’s it, that’s our common denominator as Americans. We strive to fulfill the promise of this nation that has not yet been realized. All of us, which means we don’t hide history, we don’t discriminate and say terrible things about people different from us, AND we find self-worth outside the race you happened to have been born into (that’s for you white people).
The health department is going to reschedule that meeting and we will be sure to post the new date on our social media. We need to show up en masse, and we need to demand that our county not become a hellscape like the one DeSantis is trying to create.
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