I decided to dig into the history of The Lone Ranger to see if there was any possibility that The Lone Ranger was not the Clayton Moore I saw in the movies, on television and in books but rather someone whose ethnicity was the same as mine. Do you believe that the original Lone Ranger that we often watched on television, back in the day, was a Black man? So, if we had told the story rather than someone that did not look like you or me, we would have possibly celebrated this masked man, this cowboy, as a brother. So, I am going to share with you an account of this masked cowboy that has been passed on to me in emails over the past several years. Our failure to appreciate our past impacts us today and jeopardizes our future. Too often, we lack the facts that enable us to tell the stories that are relevant to our community. In the past, I have often said that if we fail to record our history and provide our perspectives, we will find relevant facts distorted, if not omitted, when the story is told.
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