By Anna Von Reitz
Everyone please bear with me. So much has been going on and so many needs are so urgent that my mail and messaging system is in flood stage. Paul recently forwarded a message that broke my heart, but it got lost in the slipstream and I am stuck replying to it in public, or not at all.
It came from a black patriot wanting to join the Texas Republic and wondering how that could work, since prior to 1860, slavery was the rule in Texas and elsewhere in the South. He wanted to know if he would be welcome at the meeting in Kerrville, Texas, April 14. He had written and not gotten an answer back.
Well, if a white woman can come and be welcome to speak, I assume that a black man is welcome, too, as it should be, for we all love this country, and we have all suffered together. And we all have gifts, knowledge, and experience to offer.
If you aren't welcome, you and I will adjourn to the sidewalk and if anyone else wants to hear what I have to say, they'll have to come join us.
While the rules were generally that you had to be white to vote, you only had
to be free, of age, male, and a landowner to elect. There is a difference between "voting" and "electing".
