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Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski

Well, Desantis said to read the bill and you would see the word “gay” isn’t in there. Looks like FL teachers have read it, and have an interesting take.



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Andrew Davenport
@AM_Davenport

For 8 months now, our fabulous crew of archivists have processed the Getting Word Project’s files, oral histories and research related to people enslaved at Monticello and their descendants. This is about half of the files, which are now being digitized. So cool.



https://twitter.com/AM_Davenport/status ... 8444321797
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Anti-CRT anti-woke cons don't have even a fighting chance.

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Andrew Davenport
@AM_Davenport

For 8 months now, our fabulous crew of archivists have processed the Getting Word Project’s files, oral histories and research related to people enslaved at Monticello and their descendants. This is about half of the files, which are now being digitized. So cool.



https://twitter.com/AM_Davenport/status ... 8444321797
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Anti-CRT anti-woke cons don't have even a fighting chance.

I retweeted...

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Vanguard - wiki

Vanguard was a gay rights youth organization active from 1965 to 1967 in San Francisco, California. The organization was dissolved due to internal clashes in late 1966 and early 1967.[not verified in body] Vanguard magazine, originally and later loosely affiliated with the organization, continued the organization's spirit and was published through 1978 by Keith St. Clare.[1]

History Edit
In the fall of 1965, Adrian Ravarour and Billy Garrison founded Vanguard, an LGBT gay liberation youth organization in the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco, California. Joel Williams[who?] asked Ravarour as an educated adult and former priest to help the Tenderloin LGBT youth who had suffered discrimination. Seeing their conditions, Ravarour began organizing and asked the LGBT youth if they were willing to demonstrate for equal rights to end discrimination. Garrison thought this approach was dangerous, so they developed two proposals: Garrison proposed peaceful co-existence, and Ravarour proposed demonstrations for LGBT rights.[citation needed] Since Ravarour was a staff member of Intersection for the Arts, he asked its director Reverend Laird Sutton for the use of the venue. Sutton recalled that Ravarour asked about "using Intersection as a meeting place for a proposed new organization of LGBT youth of the Tenderloin ... I knew that the proposal which Adrian and Billy had while having great merit was not directly in keeping with the purpose of Intersection ... therefore I said no ... but urged them to take it to Glide."[2] In Beyond the Possible, Janice Mirikitani confirmed that Sutton had sent the youth who started Vanguard at Glide Memorial Church.[3]

Phyllis Lyon knew Ravarour from Intersection and provided Glide's community meeting room for the first meeting.[citation needed] Rev. Cecil Williams welcomed Ravarour and Garrison and offered the use of Glide as a venue for as long as needed.[citation needed] On the third meeting, Ravarour and Garrison presented their proposals to the LGBT youth, who chose Ravarour's plan. Ravarour named the group Vanguard and led their meetings throughout the fall of 1965 into spring 1966.[citation needed] To unify the group, Ravarour taught philosophical and historical principles of their rights to equality and the examples of Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

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NC DNCR
@ncculture

On Feb 20, 1885, freedmen in Edgecombe Co. incorporated Princeville, the state’s 1st town founded by African Americans. Newly freed people at the close of the Civil War settled the swampy land earlier, originally calling it Freedom Hill. Orren James Groceries in Princeville



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An Untold Triumph - The Story of the 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments U. S. Army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-kSnAXu7s

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'Buried' Latino history: Colorado sculpture honors family's fight for school equity - NBC News

The story of Latino parents who successfully fought school segregation and discrimination went unexamined for a century. A new sculpture honors the Maestas decision of 1914.

All Francisco Maestas wanted was for his children to get a quality education. When his local school district in Alamosa, Colorado, insisted he send his kids to the so-called Mexican School, Maestas fought the district in court and won.

The Maestas case was decided in 1914. Experts say it was one of the country’s first successful school desegregation cases — and the earliest known one so far involving Mexican Americans.

For over a hundred years, this story of Latino parents fighting for their children’s education was lost to history — until recently.

A three-dimensional sculpture depicting the Maestas children will be installed Thursday in the State Capitol in Denver in honor of the 108th anniversary of the decision in the case. The statue then will tour other parts of the state.

“This case lay dormant for a century, and it took some strong efforts by academics to bring it to light,” said Ron Maestas, a retired educator and descendant of the Maestas family. “To me, Francisco Maestas gives us a lesson in courage, a simple man standing up against inequity. He stood up for his kids, because he wanted safety and education for them.”

Fighting back

In 1913, Francisco Maestas tried to enroll his son Miguel, 11, at the school closest to their home in Alamosa, a small town in southern Colorado. But school officials insisted that Miguel attend the segregated “Mexican school,” which required a longer walk across railroad tracks. Maestas submitted a petition, with 180 signatures, challenging the decision. He was turned down again, so he and other Mexican American parents pulled their children out of school in protest, a boycott that would last for months. The parents banded together, raised money for a lawyer and took their case to court.

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NC DNCR
@ncculture

On Feb 20, 1885, freedmen in Edgecombe Co. incorporated Princeville, the state’s 1st town founded by African Americans. Newly freed people at the close of the Civil War settled the swampy land earlier, originally calling it Freedom Hill. Orren James Groceries in Princeville



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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubbtown,_Georgia

Chubbtown in Georgia very similar. Currently two NFL players are descendants of Chubbtown

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubbtown,_Georgia

Chubbtown in Georgia very similar. Currently two NFL players are descendants of Chubbtown

There have been several dozen of these cities across the country.

These were the places, among others, that conservative white males ran and burned down whenever somebody tried to vote or supposedly looked crosseyed at some white woman.

All-black towns across America: Life was hard but full of promise - WP

Life was hard due to the ravages of white conservatism, your repressive laws, your vicious public policies, and your lethal vigilantism.

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Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski

Well, Desantis said to read the bill and you would see the word “gay” isn’t in there. ...

Glennfs dutifully repeats this same braindead, deceptive language.

Nothing in the law mentioned gays or gay rights

Worth noting: conservative disenfranchisement laws like grandfather clauses, literacy tests, poll taxes, and registration restrictions rarely referenced the words "negro" or "colored," either.

The intent and effect were something quite different, though.

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One of the reasons conservative whites are getting the government to suppress the teaching of any of their race history is because of stories like this.

It's extremely threatening to them that some of the world's most oppressed people still fought for ourselves and secured equal rights, even under their totalitarian governments.

After all these white kids joining the George Floyd protests last year, the last thing they want is for the younger ones to learn that action makes a difference.

April 27, 1860: Harriet Tubman Helped Rescue Charles Nalle - Zinn Education Project

On April 27, 1860 in Troy, New York, Harriet Tubman helped rescue Charles Nalle, a fugitive from slavery.

Charles Nalle had managed to escape Virginia and travel north on the Underground Railroad. (In brutal retribution, his brothers were “sold down river,” never to be heard from again.)

The best course for someone who had escaped from slavery was to flee to Canada, because under the draconian Fugitive Slave Law, even free states were not safe for them.

But Charles, hoping to connect with [his wife] Kitty and their children, stopped in Albany, and later in Troy. There he was betrayed and grabbed in the street by a Federal Marshal.

More in link. When conservative whites complain that they're sick of hearing about slavery, they're not sick of it. These kinds of stories reveal the depths of their violence and moral depravity.

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Louie "You Cast Aspersions On My Asparagus" Gomert Accuses House Democrats of "Lynching Justice Thomas".

https://www.rawstory.com/louie-gohmert- ... ce-thomas/.

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert accused Democrats of a "lynching" on Wednesday during a hearing on court reform.

The House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing titled, "Building Confidence in the Supreme Court Through Ethics and Recusal Reforms." The hearing occurred after Justice Clarence Thomas refused to recuse himself from cases on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — even though text messages have revealed his wife Ginny Thomas was a QAnon cultist pushing Mark Meadows to overturn the election results.

For Gohmert, the problem was not the clear appearance of impropriety. Instead, the former Texas appeals court judge was outraged over criticism of Thomas.

Referring to the 1991 confirmation hearings for Thomas, when he was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, Gohmert invoked his Black friends.

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Council of Federated Organizations (1962-1965) - Blackpast

The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was an umbrella organization that united several groups involved in the civil rights campaign in Mississippi between 1963 and 1965. Serving as the organization behind the civil rights movement, COFO was involved in voter registration and public accommodations desegregation campaigns throughout the state. Founded in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, COFO included the statewide organizations of three national civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led by Bob Moses, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) under Tom Gaither, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) headed by Aaron Henry, as well as smaller local and regional groups.

Under COFO, the activities of these groups were coordinated in order to provide effective leadership and establish uniformly recognized objectives including improved education and health care as well as voting rights. Aaron Henry of the NAACP soon emerged as the chief strategist of COFO. He focused COFO’s efforts on increasing voter registration among blacks in the state since over 95% of those of voting age were not allowed to cast ballots at that time.

After some modest successes in 1962, COFO received support and funding from the Southern Regional Council’s Voter Education Project which enabled it to mount a state-wide voter registration drive in 1963. The high point of that campaign came in autumn of that year when COFO organized the Freedom Vote, a mock election held for African Americans to exhibit their ability to vote when given the opportunity. By the end of the mock election, 83,000 citizens of Mississippi, most of whom were black, participated and thus undermined the argument of white segregationists that local African Americans were uninterested in the ballot. The Freedom Vote focused national attention on Mississippi’s ninety year effort to keep blacks from the polls.

The success of the mock election paved the way for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964, an effort that brought hundreds of white and black volunteers from across the nation to the state to register black voters. Three of those volunteers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, were killed near Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964.

COFO launched the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to help black voters who were barred from both major parties in the state to establish a third-party political party that would include all voters regardless of race. The MFDP gained national attention when at the 1964 National Democratic Party Convention in Atlantic City it unsuccessfully attempted to replace the Mississippi Democratic Party’s all-white delegation. MFDP leader Fannie Lou Hamer used her opportunity before the nationally televised DNC Rules Committee Hearing to vividly describe how she and other activists were assaulted for trying to register to vote.

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April 30, 1963: Bristol Bus Boycott - Zinn Eduction Project

On April 30, 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott began. Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a group of West Indians in Bristol, England, organized a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company for its refusal to employ Black drivers for its buses.

The boycott lasted for four months until the company reversed its discriminatory hiring practice.

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Council of Federated Organizations (1962-1965) - Blackpast

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Council of Federated Organizations (1962-1965) - Blackpast

This is the main reason I hang around here. To learn things we wouldn't otherwise know.

Great post and thank you for the history lesson.

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April 30, 1963: Bristol Bus Boycott - Zinn Eduction Project

Right now the Troll is very happy with himself.

Take a look at the GOP Snowflake Thread, the Troll actually got to work the "N" word into a sentence. He so very proud of himself.

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April 30, 1963: Bristol Bus Boycott - Zinn Eduction Project

Good one, thanks.

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This is the main reason I hang around here. To learn things we wouldn't otherwise know.

Great post and thank you for the history lesson.

This was the white conservative reaction to COFO. Beatings, pistol whippings, bombing buildings, imprisonment, murder.

11 New Bombings Continue Long Legacy of Violence In Southwestern Mississippi - Harvard Crimson, 1964

The history of the McComb COFO project really begins in July, 1961, when Robert Moses entered that area as a SNCC field secretary. Moses, a Negro from Harlem, had studied philosophy at Harvard Graduate School and taught mathematics at Horace Mann before he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

The reaction to the new voter registration drive was swift. On Aug. 29 Moses was beaten in Amite County. On Sept. 5, Travis Britt was beaten senseless in back of the courthouse in Liberty, Miss.

Another project worker, John Hardy, was clubbed with a pistol by the registrar of Walthall County and then arrested for breach of the peace.

Local Negroes began sit-ins in McComb. The first attempt sent both participants to jail for 30 days. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Travis and five other high school students tried a second time, and Miss Travis was sentenced to one year in a state school for delinquents.

And finally there was murder. E.H. Hurst, a white man who had been threatening Negroes who attempted to register to vote, shot Herbert Lee on Sept. 25 near Liberty. A coroner's jury rapidly exonerated Hurst of the Killing, maintaining that he had acted in self-defense.

Lewis Allen witnessed Lee's death and attempted to go to the FBI with his story. And on Jan. 31. 1964, he was shotgunned to death near his home.

This wasn't even over actually casting a ballot.

Conservative whites are so petty, they murdered people just for trying to register. Then they exonerated the criminals for their crimes.

So, you can't possibly be dim enough to really believe "nigger" and "redneck" are somehow equal in status. viewtopic.php?t=97&start=375#p23381

Purely rhetorical questions: what Black registrar ever pistol-whipped a so-called redneck for trying to register to vote? When did African Americans ever beat a white activist for trying to exercise their rights to the franchise?

Anyway. You guys today are carrying on the legacy of suppressing the Black, Native, and Latino vote. That's part of the appeal of WNs and other social perverts like DeSantis and Abbot.

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This was the white conservative reaction to COFO. Beatings, pistol whippings, bombing buildings, imprisonment, murder.

11 New Bombings Continue Long Legacy of Violence In Southwestern Mississippi - Harvard Crimson, 1964



This wasn't even over actually casting a ballot.

Conservative whites are so petty, they murdered people just for trying to register. Then they exonerated the criminals for their crimes.

So, you can't possibly be dim enough to really believe "nigger" and "redneck" are somehow equal in status. viewtopic.php?t=97&start=375#p23381

Purely rhetorical questions: what Black registrar ever pistol-whipped a so-called redneck for trying to register to vote? When did African Americans ever beat a white activist for trying to exercise their rights to the franchise?

Anyway. You guys today are carrying on the legacy of suppressing the Black, Native, and Latino vote. That's part of the appeal of WNs and other social perverts like DeSantis and Abbot.

Not equal but in general if a person calls someone a redneck as a slur that person has the same intentions as the other.

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Not equal ...

Now you're just lying.

Your exact words were:

No difference between redneck and nigger.
Both are used to make the person or group ot is directed at appear ignorant.

That's not how they're both used, at all.

If you knew any actual people of African descent -- I mean, besides me -- you'd have an insight into this.

... but in general if a person calls someone a redneck as a slur that person has the same intentions as the other.

"Intent" when backed up by state power is very different than some person namecalling on the internet or some other interpersonal interaction.

They're not the same, and do not have the same effect or even "intent," and you should not equate the two.

Since you've never actually been labeled a nigger, you're just guessing. And I can guarantee you've never been labeled such by a white conservative such as yourself, intending to inflict social and physical violence.

This is simply another one of your self-victimization strategies to position conservative whites at the top of the discrimination heap.

After all, you guys are superior in everything, including now being the most discriminated-against group in this country.

Right?

:problem:

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Your exact words were:



That's not how they're both used, at all.

If you knew any actual people of African descent -- I mean, besides me -- you'd have an insight into this.



"Intent" when backed up by state power is very different than some person namecalling on the internet or some other interpersonal interaction.

They're not the same, and do not have the same effect or even "intent," and you should not equate the two.

Since you've never actually been labeled a nigger, you're just guessing. And I can guarantee you've never been labeled such by a white conservative such as yourself, intending to inflict social and physical violence.

This is simply another one of your self-victimization strategies to position conservative whites at the top of the discrimination heap.

After all, you guys are superior in everything, including now being the most discriminated-against group in this country. :problem:

Once again you are a good teacher. I was considering when one individual uses a slur towards another.
Your explanation about the government doing so is spot on.
I had a friend years ago tell me after he was called that. When I person does that they are calling his mother, father, kids etc that slur.
Which to him is why it is so hurtful.

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Once again you are a good teacher.

One day, I'm "a racist."

The next, I'm a good teacher.

Okay.

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One day, I'm "a racist."

The next, I'm a good teacher.

Okay.

I still consider your views on white people racist. But there are times like today when you get away from that and explain things in a manner that is easy to understand.
As Mark Thompson used to say make it plain

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I still consider your views on white people racist.

You’re a Confederate State apologist, a defender of Jan. 6th insurrectionists, and vote for the country’s leading antigay and anti-trans legislators. So there's no reason to ever care about your distorted perceptions about alleged racism.