I want to hear Diane talk about the everyday theft of taxes Black people been paying into the system. I want to hear all the anguish and outrage over taxes Black people paid while enduring the domestic terrorism that went on after her great grandfather purposely fought in the Civil War to “free the slaves.” (I’m sure theirs a memoir with him in his John Brown suit.)

And sacrifice??? I want Diane to count every single Black body that died from the Middle Passage up until the end of slavery and then talk to me about sacrifice. I also want Diane to count every single Black soldier who fought in every war prior to 1970 before their was even a semblance of freedom/equality in this country then talk to me about sacrifice…

I want Diane to calculate the cost of all the labor that was exploited, calculate the social costs to all the Africans who were orphan when captured, all the families that were split up… All land Blacks had stolen from them, not just lost, after Emancipation.

Oh and speaking about land… I want to hear Diane talk about the Homestead Acts that the U.S. government gave to Whites 160 acres a pop while 40 acres and a mule was something Abe Lincoln would guarantee “freed slaves” even as he moved to compensate slaveholders for their loss.

Also, I want Diane to talk about all the textile workers, etc. the slave patrollers and all white men on deck militias for slave control that were present and a part of America’s slavocracy.

More than anything, though… I want a complete list of everything Diane refused to pay federal taxes for under the pretense that it was “theft.”