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(DIR) Post #A5uwdZSLmGAGGQsEim by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:05:42Z
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THREADFrom Carol Swain1/2WHAT I CAN TEACH YOUABOUT RACISMLet me tell you how my story ends: I become a tenured, award-winning professor of political science at an Ivy League university, and then at one of the leading universities in the South.Now let me tell you how my story begins: I grow up in rural Virginia, literally dirt poor. I drop out of school in the eighth grade and have three children by the time I'm 20.
(DIR) Post #A5uwh67gmOlORltKQC by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:06:20Z
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2/3I consider myself to be a reasonably modest person, but even I have to admit that's quite a journey. How did I do it?I worked hard. Not crazy, 24/7 hard—just hard. I made good decisions. Not brilliant, three-dimensional-chess decisions—just good ones. I met people along the way who helped me and sincerely wanted to see me succeed—not because they had something to gain, but because they were decent people. Almost all of these individuals, by the way, were white.
(DIR) Post #A5uwkiI3Kc9NgmSlfs by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:06:59Z
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3/4But mostly, I think I was blessed in one crucial way: I was born in America, a true land of opportunity for anyone of any color or background. In this country, where you start your life does not determine where you end up.That works in both directions, by the way. You can start out with every advantage and waste them all. Or you can start out with nothing and become a success.
(DIR) Post #A5uwt9KGhHgDr6WQEq by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:08:30Z
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4/5It all depends on you. Your attitude is far more important than your race, gender, or social class in determining what you will accomplish in life.When I hear young blacks—or anyone, for that matter—talk about systemic racism, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I want to laugh because it's such nonsense. I want to cry because I know it's pushing untold numbers of young blacks into a dead end of self-pity and despair. Instead of seizing the amazing opportunities America offers them,
(DIR) Post #A5ux1r5jrSuruPsRYu by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:10:05Z
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5/6they seize an excuse to explain why they're not succeeding.I was born into a world where systemic racism was real—no-fooling, outright-bigotry, back-of-the-bus real. But here's what you need to know: Yes, that racism shaped the black experience—but even then, it did not define it. Change was in the air. Call it systemic reform.The modern Civil Rights Movement was in its infancy, and the leaders who fought for equal rights for blacks were men and women of all races.
(DIR) Post #A5ux6KzIeMwrmx0E7c by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:10:54Z
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6/7They believed in America and were determined to see it live up to its highest ideals—ideals manifest in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.Did I know, growing up, that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves? I don't think I ever thought about it. If I did, I'd like to think that I would have had enough common sense to know that we can't judge men who lived 250 years ago by the moral standards of our own day.
(DIR) Post #A5uxClIXk2pH7t4DNA by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:12:04Z
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7/8But I know that Jefferson wrote the words in the Declaration of Independence that made slavery ultimately impossible: that all men are created equal. And I know that Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams and the rest of the Founders risked everything to make my world, my America, possible. How could I not be grateful for that and for the sacrifices so many others have made to preserve it?
(DIR) Post #A5uxFjqxZPgZVuaIYy by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:12:36Z
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8/9The truth is I cannot remember a time when I did not love America and feel pride in the belief that I live in the greatest country in the world. I knew if I diligently pursued my ambitions, I could leave the poverty of my early years, with all its abuse and depression, behind me.I was fortunate in another way. I was spared the life-sapping, negative messages about America that are crippling a generation of young people. These ideas are poison:
(DIR) Post #A5uxJg5bVQNczzJRGS by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:13:19Z
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9/10☆ White privilege. ☆ Whiteness as a form of property. ☆ Unconscious racism. ☆ Reparations. ☆ Microaggressions. ☆ Police have it out for blacks. ☆ That the United States was created to protect and promote slavery. These are the ideas young people are told they must accept. And then they're told to reject the ideas that can save them—the antidote: the success principles that enabled me and millions of other Americans to escape lives of poverty.
(DIR) Post #A5uxNZAZAyY0hAUIxU by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:14:01Z
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10/11These principles aren't complicated: work hard, learn from your mistakes, take personal responsibility for your actions. When I made the decisions to get my high school equivalency, attend a community college, and then earn four additional college and university degrees, I believed that my education would open doors. And it did.
(DIR) Post #A5uxRDww0rWU2cr7j6 by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:14:39Z
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11/12It was only when exposed to academic theories of oppression in graduate school that I was informed that because I was black, poor, and female, I could never do what I had already accomplished.Thank God, it was too late for these toxic messages to stop me. Don't let them stop you.—Carol Swain /END
(DIR) Post #A5uxwOnXjDZ6fGKPxI by MMA@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:20:18Z
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@Cdubois @MMA Thank you for posting this. It's a perfect compliment to the Prager video discussion posted earlier, where Swain shares about the black church and the influence of Black Liberation (Marxism). Theology.
(DIR) Post #A5uy8Dq2Io5y9G8G6i by BlkLdyPatriot@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:22:27Z
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@Cdubois —Dr. Swain is a beautiful human being, inside and out.Her story is indeed a remarkable one, one that many people can learn from.Earlier today I posted an interview she did with Will Witt, one of the brilliant young Conservative minds from PragerU. It runs nearly an hour, but is quite illuminating.
(DIR) Post #A5uyAOdH8n6QCmCTSa by oystergirl@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:22:50Z
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@Cdubois Absolutely beautiful and so so true. I even think about the pushing of the idea that women are never treated equally at work or in their compensation is a lie that keeps on lying because no one knows what anyone else makes, they just assume. I made 3 times the amount of money my husband did when I was working in advertising before I retired and his salary increased more slowly. It's all a damned lie.
(DIR) Post #A5uyKP2CV7QwLcd8O8 by Boudicca@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:24:39Z
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@Cdubois TY for posting. This woman is beautiful as well as intelligent, hard working, motivated etc. I have read of her previously and I admire her tremendously. What a role model she is! She would be such an interesting person to meet.
(DIR) Post #A5uyXS3aZiEnUCVAMy by Linnie@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:27:00Z
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@Cdubois Oh man is this a must read!
(DIR) Post #A5uyXWqelDrcLXUPPE by Lucia@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:27:01Z
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@Cdubois Big fan of Ms Swain here.
(DIR) Post #A5v0ekrLGYgHjiNq2C by Ozzytrumpster@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-04T23:50:44Z
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@Cdubois Brilliant. There is no fate except what you make for healthy, intelligent people of any colour or race.The disabled, who genuinely can’t care for themselves, are a gift to us.They enable us to be humane. To learn and show compassion.Without them where would we be. And I don’t mean put the in a Petrie dish and keep them comfortable. Enable them to reach their full potential, no matter how limited, to live their best lives, no matter how short enables us to glimpse the devine.
(DIR) Post #A5v5LCu9meyGhGCMYi by Bigbranchgirl@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T00:43:14Z
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@Cdubois Bravo- Carol Swain👏👏👏👏
(DIR) Post #A5v5v9yU9hrm2AMnGi by Annasmom22@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T00:49:42Z
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@Cdubois I love Carol Swain! Awesome voice that all people should hear❤️
(DIR) Post #A5vEPwqdoDBbvutD1c by Mongo3804@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:24:56Z
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@Cdubois Thank you for posting this. It should be required reading in all schools.
(DIR) Post #A5vF8CcKXaAxa9IWgK by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:32:56Z
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@Mongo3804 Great idea, Mike!!
(DIR) Post #A5vFcPHA2b97WsnZDs by macoman4u1@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:38:23Z
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@Cdubois Thank you. I grew up in hard core in-your-face bigotry and intolerance. In the South. We don’t see racism today like it was seen back then. Racism today has a much more “elegant, elitist” way of expressing bigotry and intolerance. Racism back when I was growing up wasn’t a clown show.
(DIR) Post #A5vGCLkcciYD1RiYT2 by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:44:53Z
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@macoman4u1 Exactly right.
(DIR) Post #A5vH7NtPKibkAf1V56 by Dawnz@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:55:11Z
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@Cdubois Ive seen her on TV..What an amazing woman
(DIR) Post #A5vHVLF2qDHCtnZFTc by Cdubois@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T02:59:31Z
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@Dawnz She really is. And she's a Nashvillian!
(DIR) Post #A5vJCHAjwlaIgTag1g by DTPrez@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T03:18:29Z
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@Cdubois Swain's an important voice in this mixed up race-obsessed society we find ourselves living in. I had no idea she had such a rough start.
(DIR) Post #A5vc7vd404WZq8Tlcu by Red_wine_goddess@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T06:50:36Z
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@Cdubois Thank you for sharing! 👍🏾
(DIR) Post #A5vloxyo2FX7AbFJ3Y by Momma_Voke@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T08:39:13Z
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@oystergirl Very true. I made more than my husband before I quit to stay at home with my girls when they were born. I was a SAHM for 10 years as he rose through the ranks. @Cdubois
(DIR) Post #A5vmawZ8azh4gV7Ja4 by Momma_Voke@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T08:47:54Z
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@Cdubois I love this thread and Dr. Swain. She is a treasure.
(DIR) Post #A5vzJBX7VVNBIT2Gvo by RedRocker@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T11:10:21Z
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@Cdubois How will the democRats and race pimps keep power if messages like this get out? What a great story & exceptional person.
(DIR) Post #A5vzyFZdOCAlhXnEK8 by SuszQ1@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T11:17:47Z
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@Cdubois fantastic!
(DIR) Post #A5wVIEyWQCR6DQRik4 by oystergirl@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T17:08:45Z
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@Momma_Voke Yes, Same here. I wouldn't have done it any other way! @Cdubois
(DIR) Post #A5wVtFwlltgPwaHE8W by KodiakIsland@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T17:15:25Z
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@Cdubois Great thread.
(DIR) Post #A5wXZCIto4ISlIBtHU by inverness01@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T17:34:13Z
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Yep - I made far more gm than my name counterparts based o. Performance. It is one big effen lie..... @oystergirl @Cdubois
(DIR) Post #A5wc1n78wJWqqta9Kq by Momma_Voke@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-05T18:24:12Z
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@oystergirlSame. I wouldn’t have changed a thing! @Cdubois
(DIR) Post #A5xA1YLnEAbvVMUajw by KathrynK@social.quodverum.com
2021-04-06T00:45:08Z
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@Cdubois Thanks for sharing. Love this lady!