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@StillIRise1963 I'm no expert on FL ...but this is what I observed while I was there: 1) people are just resigned to what comes and take a sort of...we'll get by approach; 2) even in the Black community there seems to be a rejection of anything too confrontational. I met so many "go along to get along" people it was mind boggling. Even my own relatives there have become that way and they are NOT from FL. 3) when I first got there in '93 people still lowered their eyes when whites passed by....

@fulanigirl @StillIRise1963 As a longtime, off and on (currently on) Floridian, this is all too true.

Most of my family has lived here more than 50 years now, and all of my family considers me to be an antagonistic loudmouth because I can't stay silent and keep pushing them to think and act differently.

It's a waste of time, but I keep trying.

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@ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Keep trying. You never know which young person will hear your words and feel them resonate.

@fulanigirl
Its the perputual condition and tempermant of the south, "be happy with what you got, toughen up and deal with it"

i think it's partly because living in the south conditions you to a way of life that's difficult to escape from (just not prepared for life in different places/cultures), and party "misery loves company (people need community so they don't want you to leave, dont wanna be alone, dont wanna feel like they failed where others succeeded)

@ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963

@BigAngBlack @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 I just don't know....all my family lines fled from the south: the free ones left in the 1840's and the enslaved ones left as soon as they could get the hell out. I don't pretend to understand, but you can find some of the same type of responses in hard hit urban areas that have been devoid of resources for generations. Maybe its just, they are too damn tired and worn down to hope or don't see the benefits of the fight...I don't know.

@fulanigirl
theyre in a bubble and taught to be afraid of change, to normalize their pain. Its easy to make the world look like a chaotic disaster and make people feel safe in the slow-paced south. Really similar to how the GQP manipulates their voters, obvious crossover with the conservative bases in the south

theres a lot of angles to it. I mean, i grew up in it, not sure why, but i broke out, still cant understand why really

@ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963

@BigAngBlack @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 We are a complicated people who have been traumatized for over four centuries. Mental health treatment must be a part of reparations.

@fulanigirl @BigAngBlack @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 and in my experience, healing ptsd first requires that persons feel (and in fact are) safe- safe in their housing, safe in their food supply, safe in their economic and legal status. And their loved ones- especially kids- need to be secure too. This is the challenge in a taker economy of slash and grab capitalism built on a foundation of racial terrorism. 😓

@KatLS @BigAngBlack @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Exactly right and this is why the issue of community safety is so complicated. All of those things must be in play for trauma to be addressed.