Why Fascists Cancel African-American History

I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me.

Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali

We’re living 
in a dumbed-down 
culture 
because 
the education 
of most people 
in America 
is sad 
and not useful.

There are people 
who 
don’t know 
how 
to spell, 
they 
don’t know 
how 
to think.

They 
don’t even 
teach kids 
how 
to deal 
with money 
in school — 
the one thing 
you think 
they would teach 
in America.

So the fact 
the people turn 
to comic books 
and pornography 
and other 
seemingly lower-
level things?

I’m not sure 
they are lower-
level, 
but the reason 
those things 
are selling 
is because 
of how America 
is dealing 
with its citizens.

It’s a symptom: 
He’s sneezing. 
Why 
is he sneezing?

We live 
next 
to a pepper factory.

Maybe 
it’s the pepper!

Words excerpted from a New York Times interview with Walter Mosley. 2/5/2023.

But pepper is black. If it was me, I’d point to the salt.

Everybody knows salt – especially coarse white salt – can raise your blood pressure.

And it’s everywhere. Like sugar. Also white and also bad for you.

Fascists don’t want you free to eat healthy.

But nobody talks about it.