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I have decided to drop the photos from this Blog. It is an extra step and I don't want to make this harder than it needs to be. I had an interesting and disturbing exchange on FB comments recently. Here is what I wrote in reference to a post by Public Enemy on their Facebook page about empowerment for Black people: - Stick together, that is how oppressed people groups have survived and thrived (a fact) - Don't depend on a government program (another fact). For these two facts, I was, in as many words, called a racist. First by a White Liberal White woman and then by some Black dude. He kept pushing his take. He kept posting and I kept replying, "Sorry, what I posted was not racist in any way." I eventually Blocked him which is my typical response to dingbats. It felt healthy for me to refuse to let him define me and what I meant. Just because you have experienced discrimination (this is what I wrote) doesn't give you the authority to negate my voice. I am v...