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Progressive dem, fan of comics, Trek and science fiction, history buff, Deadhead, rock, blues, bluegrass. Give me a shout out if any of that sounds good.
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On November 10th, the carefully orchestrated plan unfolded. Armed white mobs stormed through the streets, attacking Black businesses and homes. They forced city officials to resign at gunpoint and installed their own leaders. The violence escalated into a massacre, with an estimated 60 to 300 African Americans losing their lives.
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In the years following the Civil War, African Americans in Wilmington had made significant strides in political and economic life. This progress, however, threatened white supremacists who sought to maintain their control. Through a campaign of intimidation, propaganda, and violence, they stoked racial tensions and incited fear among white citizens.
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Racial Injustice
The Wilmington Coup and Massacre
November 10, 1898, marked a dark day in American history when a white supremacist mob seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing the legitimately elected biracial government. This event, known as the Wilmington Coup and Massacre, stands as a stark reminder of the racial injustice and violence that plagued the post-Reconstruction South.
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Damn, I love the wall of entropy (WOE...more like WHOA)! Try yours out: https://counter.social/entropy/woeisme.php
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Cliff notes version:
1. Be curious.
2. Avoid the temptation to apply labels and categorise people.
3. Adopt slow moral, philosophical and political thinking.
4. Learn the three languages of politics.
5. Focus on how we know what we claim to know.
6. Cultivate both/and thinking.
7. Take a longer-term view.
8. Be open to pluralistic conceptions of the common good.
9. Embrace โclumsyโ solutions.
10. Take a single step.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/leadership-for-the-common-good/202403/what-can-ordinary-people-do-to-address-social
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Paul Offit states the obvious because it apparently needs to be stated. Again.
(MAGA are stupid, lazy, and trying to wish away the deadly past. Which isn't past. But milk too 'spensive something something...)
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Will Bunch:
Republicans just made their biggest mistake of 2024. They told the truth...
...about their plans to gut Obamacare, wreck public health under RFK Jr., trash the economy, and take the government back to the 1950s
Voters must believe them. Gift link:
https://t.co/dBGwaqlO4F
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#Trump should be disqualified for saying #LizCheney should have rifles shooting at her" which is what #KamalaHarris has said.
It doesn't have any meaning when Trump tries to walk it back.
ok got my covid update, took some advil, drank some beer. We'll see how this plays out
#politics The next President could nominate replacements for septuagenarian Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Which candidate do you want making that call? https://www.jezebel.com/2-reasons-to-vote-for-kamala-harris
#politics "Why would the worldโs richest man be โfuckedโ if Trump loses?
Because under a Harris administration, Musk may be held accountable for his many abuses of power โ for busting unions and mistreating workers, for using SpaceX and Starlink to monopolize Americaโs satellite and space infrastructure, and for using his social media platform to knowingly spread dangerous lies." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-musk-thinks-hell-be-fcked-if
#politics We have too often, and too conveniently, mischaracterized our nationโs biggest political problem as polarization. But the principal danger we face is not division itself but the emergence of a new American form of fascism, wrapped in the flag and justified by a white Christian theology of dominion. https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/one-week-from-the-election-the-survey
#politics AND THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US, THE PATRIOTS AT NORMANDY AND SELMA, SENECA FALLS AND STONEWALL, ON FARMLAND AND FACTORY FLOORS, THEY DID NOT STRUGGLE, SACRIFICE, AND LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES ONLY TO SEE US CEDE OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS. THEY DID NOT DO THAT, ONLY TO SEE US TO SUBMIT TO THE WILL OF ANOTHER PETTY TYRANT.
- Kamala Harris
GlennS
Progressive dem, fan of comics, Trek and science fiction, history buff, Deadhead, rock, blues, bluegrass. Give me a shout out if any of that sounds good.
Joined Apr 2022