MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The NYT republished Frederick Douglass’ obituary (from 1895)
I await Trump’s tweet lamenting the loss of the man who was doing great things
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The NYT published Frederick Douglass’ obituary (from 1895)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/obituaries/frederick-douglass-dead-1895.html
I await Trump’s tweet lamenting the loss of the man who was doing great things
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/02/trump-implied-frederick-douglass-was-alive-the-abolitionists-family-offered-a-history-lesson/?utm_term=.519a6566a665
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 12:24pm
Was? you mean it was his *final* obituary? Why didn't anyone tell me?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 1:03pm
Most large media organizations have draft obituaries of famous people on file long before they die. Simply seeing what could very likely be an early draft isn't convincing proof of death. Don't let yourself be swayed by propaganda PP. Keep the faith!
by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 3:42pm
Way to go ocean-kat, that's the Qanon way, you got it down! It's hard work constructing alternate realities, takes stable geniuses.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 4:07pm
But people have been talking about the excellent work he's been doing. What if it's cut off? Too soon, too early - we need people like Fred.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 8:41pm
Huh? He's one of those centrist appeaser sell out types:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 11:15pm
TheTimes' obituary section also does an "Overlooked" Feature for the famous outside of the category of white men who did not get an contemporary obituary in their pages:
Overlooked
Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. Now, we’re adding the stories of other remarkable people. Introducing Overlooked.
There is this subsection for Black History month:
For Black History Month, Remarkable Women and Men We Overlooked Since 1851
The ragtime master Scott Joplin and the blues singer Gladys Bentley are among many black men and women whose deaths The New York Times overlooked — until now.
January 31, 2019
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 2:30pm
Where's the rest of me...?
In the last
24, 21 hours the "latest comments" were 7 from AA ; PP-3; rmr and OK one apiece. until NCD broke the drought . No complaint about the hardy "latest comment(ers)" Be a pretty uninviting blank space otherwise.Maybe I should volunteer to insert childhood memories whenever an hour passes with nary a latest comment.
I'll start.
We had a dog. Brownie. Chased every car ( few during WW2) so my father tied a rope behind his (Brownie's) front legs with a metal bar suspended .Supposed to bang against the rear ones thus providing a "negative reinforcement" as Bill my Harvard Psych dept friend used to call a pain . Until he left for Vanderbilt.
Wonder what they called it in Tennessee.
by Flavius on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 12:07am
Man bites dog: an all time outrage rousing favorite!
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 12:41am
"Fiddle-dee-dee, how a body shoor get around - just two weeks ago I was in Tennessee and now I'm all the way to Mississippi" - Light in August (paraphrased)
Been Netflix binging - all that methadone and Adderall made me lose track of time...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 2:29am
The White House and Trump can do the well-spun Black History month gig when he wants to, just sayin':
I listened to/watche most of it. Though as always, the first half is real heavy on praising stable genius Trump while reading off teleprompter, he gets awful friendly in the second half and seems real happy and to be enjoying the somewhat rowdy crowd and was quite good with those guests who spoke and they in turn seemed very comfortable with him. Extra shocking: he even seemed to be genuinely praising Jared for prison reform.
Mr. and Mrs. Pence, on the other hand: classic uptight stereotype whypipple....
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/22/2019 - 6:57am