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JustAnotherGen

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6. That history
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 04:55 PM
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Is being woven into my county's 250th Anniversary. It started a few years back with recognition of a Black Revolutionary hero in our borough, and a Mayor (might be the last damn Republican in America) whose family had to engage a WASP to buy and build their home here (Jewish). When her father then became a councilman he couldn't bring the rest of the Council across the bridge that pointed out there were enslaved human beings in our Borough, County, and State and weave it into the 200th celebration.

This is her making good on a promise to him - as well as a social justice focused historical committee and even a couple of Republican Commissioners.

I don't know about the rest of the country but Hunterdon County is leaning alllllllll the way in about liberty and justice being for the white males, and no one else.

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