{"id":7051,"date":"2025-05-03T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:41:09","slug":"does-another-thaddeus-stevens-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"Does Another Thaddeus Stevens Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0E. Faye Williams<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

With all of this shameful racist stuff going on more than usual, I took the time to read about a man who long ago set the standard for white people to step up and not just say what somebody else should do or what this nation owes Black people. I know it sounds strange for me to be looking for white people to do the right thing, when they hear and see wrong perpetrated against Black people or anybody who is not white. As Sam Cooke said, \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d but today, I came in contact with a man who was white and did the right thing about racial respect and justice.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t read about Thaddeus Stevens, you\u2019ve missed a man who kept hope alive to his dying day. History just wrote him off like those who\u2019ve tried to erase Black history! Mr. Stevens was sort of mentioned in high school \u2014 which was a long time ago for some of us, and I doubt that younger people have heard more about him than we, of a certain age, did.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you about this man. I\u2019m not surprised that Trump, DeSantis and others will soon try to erase all of us from history books. They want to get rid of all Black history. Mr. Stevens had a disability and that probably gave him some sense of what it\u2019s like to be different from others around him. You don\u2019t often see me writing about white people\u2019s history on racial justice, but I just had to bring Stevens back to history for doing the right thing years ago.<\/p>\n