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From Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905)

"Since the dawn of history the Negro has owned the Continent of Africa—rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet.
Yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light.
His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled.
A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrow-head worth preserving beyond the moment of its use.
He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour.
In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud.
With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail!
He lives as his fathers lived—stole his food, worked his wife, sold his children, ate his brother, content to drink, sing, dance, and sport as the ape!"

@coded_artist @Wormwood the fact that they had possibly the most resource rich continent on earth and couldn't invent a wheel should tell a lot.
this has been weighing on me very heavily and it's actually affected my irl life and relationships because of stress and everything involved with trying to balance this.

a lot of users have contributed much, much more than they should have to and I feel bad. but we are still so far away from the goal. I have the option to convert them back to monthly bills, we lose the nearly 30% discount for the yearly commit on transit and bite the bullet and go back to not knowing month-to-month if everything is covered, or I move a bunch of my own crypto into XMR and sell some to cover the rest of the bills.

so I guess I'm going to move crypto and hope for the best. thanks for everybody who contibuted what they could, half of them are due today and the other half in a couple days with a couple due at the end of the month, so I will start taking care of those tomorrow.

thanks for being here friends,
thick and thin we will figure it out together
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