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My History Education…

  • November 20, 2024
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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 the Colored Citizens of the World,” which called for black unity and resistance against slavery.  His work highlighted the injustices of slavery and urged individuals to act according to their...

Sojouner Truth

Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2

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 since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned nine years old, she was sold away from her family to a man near Kingston, New York, named John Neely;...

The insane, the stupid, and the lousy

  • February 27, 2021
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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 human life? Or elected officials representatives of the people, or is it only for themselves? These and many other issues reflect a wide range of political attitudes that shape the...

Another Blatant Act of Racism

  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 walked up to demonstrators, where she was caught on camera shouting at them;   Meanwhile, when asked to move her car, Rapkin spits on Eric Patrick Lucas III, 17, who helped...

Let Punishment Fit The Crime!!

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 officers could have handled this differently. The head of the Minneapolis police union doesn’t care that a human life being taken away. Because he says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history”...