Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Quote of the day -- Right out of the Republican Party pllatform
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
--Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Very likely the cheapest gasoline in the nation now
And you've got it, Joplin, Missouri. Shot yesterday:
On this day...in nearby Oklahoma, 1921
In 1921, Greenwood (in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the U.S. Serving over 8,000 residents, Greenwood’s commercial district was known nationally as the ‘Negro Wall Street’. The community boasted two newspapers, over a dozen churches, and hundreds of African-American-owned businesses. On the evening of May 31, 1921, Greenwood was ravaged by a white mob. By the conclusion of the riot at midday, June 1, virtually every building in a 42-square-block area of the community--homes, schools, churches, and businesses--was burned to the ground and thousands were left homeless. Over 1,200 homes were destroyed. Every church, school, and business in Greenwood was set on fire. Approximately 8,000 African-Americans were left homeless and penniless. (Continue reading here: http://bit.ly/1pGWfv5.)
(People) need to learn the hidden history of the 1921 Tulsa race riot (massacre) and how this links to racial wealth inequality today. Read "Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession" by Linda Christensen of Rethinking Schools and see her classroom lesson: http://bit.ly/1fDOUvG
You can read and see more about that ugly, fateful day, here:
What happened to Black Wall Street on June 1, 1921?
Which brings up this article from this past week from The New Yorker:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Reparations
And it is based on this recent article from The Atlantic
Most Americans likely don't know there were, in fact, some reparations paid for slavery just after the Civil War, as Ta-Nehisi Coates points out. Trouble is, they were paid to slave owners. How's that for irony? And hypocrisy.
Food for thought.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
June 1: International Children's Day
From Wikipedia:
Children's Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally. It was first proclaimed by the World Conference for the Well-being of Children in 1925 and then established universally in 1954 to protect an "appropriate" day.
International Day for Protection of Children, observed in many countries as Children's Day on June 1 since 1950, was established by the Women's International Democratic Federation on its congress in Moscow (22 November 1949). Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Entertainment overnight -- a great love
Watch on full screen. As the Beatles albums once advised: "Play loud"
Friday, May 30, 2014
Quote of the day -- on guns
After 2 horrible shootings here in America, so tragic, still on our minds, thoughts on the 2nd Amendment, from a Supreme Court justice:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Entertainment overnight -- dance
So talented. So creative. Such terrific choreography. Incredible syncopation. So many of their moves don't even look real.
And they only came in 2nd?
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
How America, through our politicians, ACTUALLY treat our Veterans
As just one glaring example, Missouri's own Senator Roy Blunt has been wrapping himself in the American flag and all over the nation's Veterans on his Facebook page this weekend, yet his political party has repeatedly voted down benefits for those same Veterans.
Happy Memorial Day, indeed.
Quote of the day -- the "War on Terror"
And he wrote this a few years before Dubya' and Dick started both their illegal war in Iraq and our insane "war on terror" after 9/11.
Very prescient.
Memorial Day 2014
Happy Memorial Day, America.
You spend more on and for war than any other nation on the planet, far and away. Pretend, for a day or a long weekend you regret creating veterans.
What kind of sick, sad, pathetic, greedy nation does that?
Answer: Us. The good, old US of A. More than any other nation, bar none.
Happy Memorial Day you lazy pukes.
Enjoy your picnic.
Memorial Day and the history
#ThrowbackFact: Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.
Thanks to Abstrakt Goldsmith for this nugget of history that most of us never learned in school and Punk Colours for sharing.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Here's your "class warfare"
Yes, there's "wealth redistribution" going on folks but those with big money have nothing whatever to be concerned about at this point, with more information here:
The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality
Additional information here:
For your Sunday entertainment
Enjoy.
Then, once you've watched, get outside and enjoy that brilliant, comfortable weather.
Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.
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