Tag: #facts
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My History Education…
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David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an influential American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Born to a free mother and an enslaved father, he was free himself due to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem. In 1829, while residing in Boston, he published “An Appeal to…
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Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2
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Sojourner Truth They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language…
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The insane, the stupid, and the lousy
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The insane, the stupid, and the lousy weather destroy, spoiled,by the so-called Conservative mindset. Is aid to the poor a movement towards equality, or is it an inequitable burden for the middle and upper classes? Does permission for abortion defend American women’s freedom, or does it promote the end of…
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Another Blatant Act of Racism
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Another Blatant act of Racism— Stephanie Rapkin, of Shorewood, in Milwaukee, an attorney showed up at a peaceful protest on N. Oakland Ave, parked her car across the road, blocking the march, over the past weekend. Ditching the car in the middle of the street, she got out and…
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Let Punishment Fit The Crime!!
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The Punishment: George Floyd died last week after a white cop refused to remove his knee from his neck keeping his airway blocked for nearly 9 minutes. This shocking incident was recorded by bystanders. Allegedly he tried to pass a phony $20 bill before he died. No matter, those police…