“It’s a Wonderful Life” is now in understated COLOR! With angels, sometimes it is not even spectacular stuff. Maybe you are supposed to meet someone who can teach you something. It may be for a week or just one conversation.
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Thing is, the right handling of us is these guardian angels’ JOB, and they are not to do “too much” FOR us. In the great 1947 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (with Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore), set seemingly in the Great Depression (because of the bank “run”/panic), Clarence is a junior guardian angel and he has to get it just right, like a coach, but the player, the earthling, has to go out there and make the plays.
More: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_sBw8tcnSZgZ_QlaPNemvzFrmTz2Wp1
Maybe another angel thing… One of my supporters in Texas does groundskeeping and maintains a cemetery which has some gravestones and monuments to Confederate and US veterans and others. It was a warm night with no breeze at all, but, as he approached, walking past the US flags, they hung limp — but at a marker “William C. CUMMINS
b.1834 d.1910,” a Confederate flag began flapping in the breezeless night. 
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And it is not about supporting slavery. Virtually all slave-owners (including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) were willing to be compensated for losing their slaves and send them off to have their own country.
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It was preachy Yankees with NO black experience back then (in the 1860s, when the North was lily-white) TELLING Southerners — with 240 years of their own experience with Blacks — that we and they are exactly the same except for “skin color,” and so the two races should live together, intermarry, and attend the same schools, churches and clubs.
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It was so lily-white in my native Rhode Island that I was floored when at seven I first encountered a black lady.
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Where did we get off telling Dixie what Black folks are like, and then invading them and killing 250,000 white men, and burning their farms and cities like Atlanta down?
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This the egoic mind. Freeing the slaves and then KEEPING them here was one big, insane, northern ego trip.
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