I don’t know what to say.

Some people wear masks to the store, in their car, and even at the gym.
Good for them.

Some people don’t wear masks.

I’m in the non-mask wearing side.
No one, even my 70+ year-old-mother doesn’t wear a mask she goes out.    This whole family are non-maks when they’re not at work.

We’re not afraid to show our faces.    Should we become ill, we become ill.     It’s all part of God’s plan.

And, so far, we’re not ill.    Mom is healthy.   I’m doing okay.    No one has even sneezed in this house for months.

Still, I’m starting to feel just a bit paranoid about going out sometimes.

With the current climate, I feel like I’m just waiting to someone pick an argument with me about not wearing a mask. I feel these side-way glances at me occasionally and squinty eyes above their masks.

It feels like it’s just a matter of time before some little old lady starts screaming profanities at me from her knitted mask.   I am certainly waiting for it.    Hasn’t happened yet.   Might not happen, but I won’t be surprised if it does.

Which really doesn’t matter to me because I’m not going to wear one anyway.     I’m seriously stubborn and don’t like to subscribe to any type of groupthink.

I’m just not looking forward to the conversation — provided the person will allow me to have a word before she goes storming off to the ice cream aisle.

Bam… new idea.

Jason is going to call soon so I’m going to try to hurry this up a bit.

Monuments are being beheaded and tossed into rivers or whatnot, right?    Because the people from the monument had slaves, non-2020 confirmative values, or whatever.  I understand that.     They are considered bad people — mostly men.

Okay.   I get it.

The only real reason why these people have monuments is that they did something pretty cool.    They’re a little or a lot more than a footnote in history.

History is written by the winners.
—  Hence, how slaves are portrayed in Gone With the Wind.

The monuments don’t project a perception of a fair and heroic man.   Rather, history does.

So, to be fully corrective, why no reteach history?

If George Washington had slaves, let it be taught in high school history that he had slaves.  That he wasn’t some minor got that chopped down a cherry tree.  If he had dentures made from slave teeth, let’s state that he had dentures made from slave teeth.

It’s not that hard.

Despite all of the mindset of 1776 and going forward, society has evolved to where it is today.  Not perfect, but certainly better than where we were.

And society continues to learn and move forward as we go.

Destroying the “winning” history is still destruction.

A better path would be to reinvestigate and reevaluate with an open mind.

We know Thomas Jefferson had children with a black woman.   Did he love her?   She love him?  Was the master/slave relationship the only way they could be together?    Did he treat her as a slave?   How where the children treated?

Just because the slave relationship existed in society doesn’t mean that it existed inside the Jefferson home.

Assuming that every slave was treated poorly is just like Gone With the Wind promoting those slaves were family members.

Neither one is right.
People are people.

Then, if proven that bad things happened — add that to history.   Teach that “heroes” aren’t “heroes.”    They’re people too.

But destroying without educating is just ignorant.

Dunno.
Just thoughts I had in the shower.