Alachua County’s Journey to Truth and Reconciliation
Courtesy of Alachua County
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – As Black History Month comes to a close, Alachua County would like to take a moment to highlight the vast and continued efforts being made around the community on a particular subject. This month’s feature story from PIO Andrew Caplan is titled “Alachua County’s Journey to Truth and Reconciliation.”
From the story:
“Beginning in 2018 and continuing over the past six years, Alachua County and hundreds of community members have embarked on a Truth and Reconciliation project in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama. The project shines a light on the dark side of our county’s history and looks for healing.
“The result of that work has led to the creation of a unique county-wide effort unlike anywhere else in Florida – and arguably the nation – at a time when talking about race relations and slavery has been considered controversial by some.”
More BS from the RACE BAITERS!
Creeping slavery is being done today, instead of the overt variety of yesteryear. By the same Party, too.🤡👹💩🍦🍦🍦D
Unfortunately, truth and reconciliation is is nothing more than a paper tiger.
Since there is always at least a 100 year lag time in the reconciliation world between what happened and the public acknowledgement of what happened, no price can ever be exacted.
A better way would be to focus on today’s truths and work backwards in time.
Let’s lead off with the clear and present dangers that are dirty little secrets that never make the news.
Toxic materials such as asbestos, mold, PFAS, lead-based paint, mercury-containering devices, PCBs, freon-based parts, mold and many others silent killers are being dumped daily at either SE 8th Ave and Waldo Rd or Florence C&D landfill on SE 15th St in Gainesville. Is it happenstance? What effect does prolonged exposure to such toxins have on the mind?
Let’s face the truth about what’s in the now, and reconcile it right now, rather than waste time and resources on 19th century symbolic victories.
FYI, saying the people should move out of the neighborhood where those hazardous sites are located is like saying if everyone were to leave Gainesville there would be no crime.
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Racism is still alive and well…and it is all against whites these days.
I wish these folks would focus on their brothers in Africa who sold them. Tell the truth be honest your own people are to blame for selling you. But after a Civil War you were freed. Now you are in the Greatest Country. Your ancestors suffered for you. Be thankful.
By that reasoning, your brothers bought and resold them, breaking up families and tearing kids from their mothers, raped the women, physically beat all of them, and when the war and Reconstruction was over, continued much of those same practices by force of law through incarceration for BS crimes and making them serve time by working farms and factories for free and under force and threat of lynchings – see Newberry and other Florida history – with women still being raped by their powerful overlords. This outrage continued with anything close to full rights not being won until 60 years ago, i.e., my lifetime and that of many others.
Be thankful, I guess. Your ancestors could have been of the wrong color.
Thanks JM. People moving here need to be aware that inland Florida before the advent of air conditioning was very different, much harder, place than what we experience now.