John Brown always gets flattened out into an icon. He understood how easily he could become iconic and used that to its fullest, but we keep stripping him of his humanity, and it is his humanity that made him great. Without that, the rest never would have been.
Tag: Slavery
Branch of the United States League of Gileadites. Adopted Jan. 15, 1851
“Whereas slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens upon another portion—the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination—in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth…
“We shouldn’t have started something we didn’t want to finish”
Dak has a strong, Eastern Massachusetts accent. Sort of like Boston+. I only mention that because it adds a bit of flavor to some of her funnier remarks. We’ve been talking a little, here and there, about some of my obsessions, and she asks questions about Massachusetts’ place in American slavery. This morning we were…
More proof that WE ARE ALL SCREWED: Fox News makes sense
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
The South – Grant – and what about the cotton strategy?
What about the South choosing to starve the global cotton market instead of flooding it? Because that was incredibly stupid.
“How does a black person not get shot in America?”
“How does a black person not get shot in America?”
MOOC Mania
I have become a certified MOOC freak. There are several different platforms for MOOCS – Massive Open Online Courses – such as edX and Coursera, and happily many others are available on YouTube. (Many are available through those platforms as well as on YouTube.) I prefer the edX platform if I use one. I…
Black History, Hidden Figures, & learning through laughter: SNL Weekend Update
“Like, did y’all know a black man invented the traffic light? Maybe I would’ve respected those signals a little more if I knew they were coming from a brother.”
Exact Words 