Interesting. What would be examples of differences in African and European thought as they apply to daily life in America?
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Dear
Mac1958
I gave an example.
The historic district where I live was originally built and developed by Freed Slaves after Emancipation.
Even the land it was built on was sand brought in from other areas to fill in the swamp area where the
Blacks were segregated to live as nonpersona's in that day.
However today instead of valuing the connection of the residents to their history and land,
and supporting their plans to develop and restore the district as a sustainable campus
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The White developers colluded with the City Government to redirect funding and resources
to destroy the history, remove gravesites, tear down houses and historic structures including
churches, and tear up the brick streets the community had petitioned and protested to preserve.
So the White culture of valuing the real estate rentals and taxes based on that
is placed ABOVE as SUPERIOR
to the spiritual history, equality and financial sustainability of the resident community.
I even proposed a system of paying back taxpayers even HALF the amount HANDED to the corporate developers,
and LEND to the local community groups to restore their campus and business development plans.
So instead of only counting the rental values, and totally disregarding any historical value or
the rights of the community at ZERO, I would count these EQUALLY.
So the true value of the land is both added together, and the plans would have to protect both costs.
Right now the historic value is not even counted, so of course the real estate developers get their way
and the city only looks at the tax value on that revenue.
But if a credit system were set up based on preserving the history and community,
then that value could be lent against to develop the same business and educational plans
but with the money going into preservation as the base of the economy instead of leaving this out of the equation.
That is clearly a cultural difference, and here it happens to be black versus white.
But this happened to the Native Americans also who were deprived of land ownership to remain connected to their
history and culture.
It is a form of genocide to remove people from their land and history in order to take over control
and leave them without equal standing to defend themselves because the land ownership is shifted.