It is Time to Break History

Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
Curated Newsletters
6 min readOct 27, 2020

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In the US we stand at the perfect movement to break our connection with our brutal history. If we do not break this history, it will break us.

What history?

Our Founders spoke of liberty and justice for all but held black people as slaves and exterminated Native American Peoples. All women were slaves too. What? Slaves inherit their condition by birth. They do not have their own names, but the names of their masters. They are traded for political and economic gain. They cannot rule themselves. This was the condition of all women on Earth until very recently.

So, elite whitemen ruled the People in the USA. They did whatever they wanted to the rest of us. That means all people who were not white and all women. It especially means the black people who were kidnapped from their homes and broken to the slave life and Native Peoples who experienced genocide and the loss of their ancestral homeland.

Today a minority party of whitemen rule over a diverse nation and seek to return us to exclusive rule by whitemen. Their rule has been achieved by cheating, attempting to overthrow the 2020 election, and the slave-owner sympathetic rules of governance set forth in our Constitution.

Let’s just admit that our Constitution cements minority elite whiteman rule.

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Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
Curated Newsletters

We all matter! Code: ALL. A Warren Democrat. A scientist. A poet. A mother. LOVES Bader Ginsburg. Loves McCartney. Is old.Is white.Is LGBTQ.She/her/me.Is woman.