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The mind boggles, the senses

jollyroger — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:03:27 +0000

In reply to And of course, Trump takes

The mind boggles, the senses reel...

Nothing has meaning. It's all

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:42:00 +0000

In reply to The Fourth of July is BBQ day

Nothing has meaning. It's all a grab bag of shit. Just remember that. Life sucks. And then some.

Forever in Dixie

The Civil War of 1861 to 1865 freed African Americans from their Southern masters, but didn't liberate them from the cotton fields. Fearing the Northern states would be flooded with refugee slaves, a policy of containment was instituted by Union Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas. He arranged for freed slaves to remain in the South and work the fields of abandoned Southern plantations controlled by white Northern owners. Once assigned to a plantation, the former slaves were not permitted to leave without a pass. They worked 10-hour days and were paid $10 a month. When this contract labor arrangement concluded at the war's end, it was estimated that at least two-thirds of these former slaves were defrauded of their wages.

With friends like those...

The Fourth of July is BBQ day

rmrd0000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:40:45 +0000

In reply to It is a happy day! Thanks,

The Fourth of July is BBQ day for us, no real meaning. Somewhat akin to Frederick Douglass' take on it.

It is a happy day! Thanks,

jollyroger — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:53:09 +0000

In reply to Happy Juneteenth, jolly.

It is a happy day! Thanks, and Happy Juneteenth to you. (Now, someone please tell my spellcheck bot that "Juneteenth" is not a typo...)

And of course, Trump takes

rmrd0000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:39:24 +0000

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And of course, Trump takes credit.

https://www.theroot.com/christopher-trumplumbus-i-discovered-juneteenth-1844081448

As if on cue

rmrd0000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:22:10 +0000

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As if on cue

For people who want so badly for black people to just forget about slavery, conservative white people sure seem bound and determined to hold on to the very monuments that immediately remind black folk of what our ancestors endured. Many of us were beside ourselves with joy after we learned that the 130-year-old statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee would be removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, but it appears we started celebrating too early, because on Thursday, Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo indefinitely extended an injunction preventing Gov. Ralph Northam from proceeding with plans to remove the statue.

On June 4, Northam announced that monuments commemorating Lee and four other Confederate leaders will be removed and placed into storage. On June 8, Cavedo granted a temporary injunction barring the state of Virginia from removing the Lee statue after “a descendant of the couple who signed the deed giving land for the monument to the state” filed a lawsuit, the Washington Post reports. Ten days later, the descendant failed to prove his case, but Cavedo extended the injunction anyway.

https://www.theroot.com/richmond-judge-won-t-let-virginia-be-great-extends-inj-1844085118

Happy Juneteenth, jolly.

rmrd0000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:13:09 +0000

In reply to Lifting the stain from my soul...

Happy Juneteenth, jolly.

Having a Zoom celebration with relatives from across the country.