#harriet lynch

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Winterfest 1926

Winterfest celebrations were held at Andrew's home this year. With everyone present, it was deemed necessary a full family photograph should be taken. Myrtle and Vinnie brought their beaus, Billy and Don Bjergsen with as well.

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Sorted caps, Killing Eve S 1-4, assorted cast.

Anjana Vasan - Pam

Camille Cottin - Helene

Darren Boyd - Frank Haleton

Eugenia Dodina - Tatiana

Fiona Shaw - Carolyn Martens

Gemma Whelan - Geraldine

Harriet Walker - Dasha

Henry Lloyd-Hughes - Aaron Peel

Kim Bodnia - Konstantin

Nina Sosanya - Jess

Owen McDonnell - Niko Polastri

Robert Gilbert - Yusuf

Sean Delaney - kenny Stowton

Suan Lynch - Anna

Turlough Convery - Bear

Yuli Ladoninsky - Irina

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Spelman Seminary, companionship, Sophia B. Packard, and Harriet E. Giles

Harriet Elizabeth "Hattie" Giles and Sophia Brett Packard in a photograph sometime before 1891. Image from Spelman College Archives and NYPL.

In 1881, Sophia Brett Packard founded Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary with her longtime companion, Harriet E. Giles. The school would later be renamed Spelman Seminary in 1884 in honor of John D. Rockefeller's wife, Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman, who was an active abolitionist and school teacher, since the latter had paid the balance to keep the school open, which opened its doors in 1888. Sophia would continue onward on the school's board of trustees, then as president until her death in June 1891, when there were 464 students and faculty of 34. There's more to this story than the four paragraphs on Sophia's Wikipedia page.

Sophia, my fifth cousin five times removed, was born in New Salem, Massachusetts in January 1824 to Winslow Packard (1790-1852) and Rachel Freeman (1788-1844). She had five siblings: Joseph Fairbanks (1812-1883), Jane (b. 1815), Mary (1815-1838), Hubbard Vaughn (1817-1861), and Rachel Maria (b. 1818). She would graduate from the Charleston Female Seminary in Massachusetts, work at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield, be secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. By the early 1880s she was committed to helping improve education for Black people, specifically Black women, in the South. She would later be described as a "woman of rare executive ability" and having an earnest, strong character. [1]

There is more to be said. You may have noticed earlier that I described Harriet E. Giles as her life-long companion. This is first evidenced by the fact that Sophia died from sickness while on a summer vacation with Harriet, and would be buried in Athol, Massachusetts. Harriet, who lived until 1909, and born in New Salem, Massachusetts like Sophia, would become the president of Spelman Seminary when Sophia died. One writer would call Harriet and Sophia a lesbian power couple, noting that they met each other in the mid-1850s when Harriet was a student at New Salem Academy and Sophia was the preceptor. Both would be buried next to one each other in Silver Lake Cemetery. They would also be described as "close friends and supportive coworkers" by Harry G. Lefever in his article on the early origins of Spelman College. He also noted note the New England-progressive outlook they brought to the school, noting their emphasis on liberal and industrial courses, but employed assumptions about gender roles, which became part of the curriculum while being self-sacrificing and putting others before themselves. At the same time, they never fundamentally challenged social injustices or inequities, either by staying silent about redistribution of land for formerly enslaved peoples, not actively lobbying to end lynching within the South, or having Black people in leadership positions. [2]

Further evidence shows Harriet and Sophia living together in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, within the Mather household, in this below census extract:

Sophia and Harriet are highlighted by a yellow box. Source is 1860 United States Federal Census for Sophia B Packard, Connecticut, Hartford, Suffield, Year: 1860; Census Place: Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: M653_79; Page: 667; Family History Library Film: 803079

The same is the case in 1865, when they are living in the same household in Worcester, Massachusetts, along with many other teachers and students. She would still be living in Worcester, Massachusetts until at least 1867. At first I couldn't find her in the 1870 census, and her 1890 passport application does not mention Harriet. However, digging into it more, I found them together in Suffolk, Massachusetts, and it turns out that Harriet submitted a passport application at the same time as Sophia. Additionally, when Harriet died in November 1909 of pneumonia, an obituary in The Sumpter Enterprise at the time described Sophia as Harriet's "friend and co-worker". The Atlanta Constitution would use similar language in their obituary. They were both called "devoted Christian woman" in another article about Spellman, which isn't surprising considering Sophia had worked in a church and what became Spellman was originally in the basement of a church before moving to a new location. [3]

Otherwise, a 1853 student lists for New Salem Academy note that Harriet's father, Samuel, is the secretary of the academy, Harriet as a teacher of music. Sophia is not listed there. However, she is listed as a preceptress in 1855 and Samuel is still secretary of the school, and Harriet is a student in the school's classical department. I also found them together in the 1880 census, boarding on 275 Shawmut Avenue (which is seemingly just an apartment building) in Boston within the Ryder household, along with many other boarders. [8] Harriet would also write a moving eulogy to Sophia, and mentions "loving companionship" which is undoubtedly a way to allude to the romantic relationship they had together, whether it can be called a domestic partnership, romantic friendship, or something else:

It is not necessary to euloigize one so widely known. Her work speaks for her; and the monuments she has erected, will endure from generation to generation, in the lives made better by her influence. How large her bundle of sheaves! How thickly studded her crown with stars for those she has won to Christ! We mourn not for her, but for the work, and the workers who will so greatly miss her loving companionship and wise counsels. Surely "They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."

Both also opened the Rollstone School in March 1859 together, which ended after both accepted teaching positions at the Connecticut Literary Institution. They both, would also, teach at the Oread Institute in Worchester from 1864 to 1867, with Sophia as co-principal and Harriet as teacher of ornamentals and music. They also both co-founded the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1877.

"Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles with Spelman Seminary Students" in 1886, via  National Alumnae Association of Spelman College

Spelman Seminary would later become Spelman College when its name changed in 1924. Otherwise, one article in The Springfield Daily Republican on November 25, 1939, possibly accessed using one of the libraries here, notes that an oil painting of Harriet was gifted to the Swift River Valley Historical Society. It is likely still in their collections, even though it is strange since the society wasn't incorporated until 1962.

While we don't know everything about Sophia, Harriet, and their relationship, which some have described as an iconic same-sex couple among many others, we can say that their legacy certainly lives on to this day.

Notes

[1] The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 2 (James T. White & Company. 1921), 270-271; "Spelman - Packard" clipping in The Boston Weekly Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 Jun 1891, Page 3.

[2] The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 2 (James T. White & Company. 1921), 271; "Spelman - Packard" clipping in The Boston Weekly Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 Jun 1891, Page 3; "Oread Institute," Lost Womyn's Space, Apr. 27, 2011; Riese Bernard, "16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together," Autostraddle, Mar. 31, 2017; Harry G. Lefever, "The Early Origins of Spelman College," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education No. 47 (Spring, 2005), pp. 60-63.

[3] Massachusetts, U.S., State Census, 1865 for Sophia B Packard, Worcester, Worcester Ward 7, image 4; U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for Sophia B Packard, Massachusetts, Worcester, 1867, Worcester, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1867, Image 173; U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925 for Sophia B Packard, Passport Applications, 1795-1905, 1888-1890, Roll 344 - 01 Mar 1890-31 Mar 1890, Image 368; 1870 United States Federal Census for Hattie Giles, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston Ward 08, Year: 1870; Census Place: Boston Ward 8, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_645; Page: 39A; U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925 for Harrich Elizabeth Giles, Passport Applications, 1795-1905, 1888-1890, Roll 349 - 09 May 1890-16 May 1890, Image 43; "Harriett Giles obituary - clip 1" in The Sumter Enterprise, Epes, Alabama, 02 Dec 1909, Page 3; "Harriett Giles obituary - clip 2" in The Sumter Enterprise, Epes, Alabama, 02 Dec 1909, Page 3; "Miss Harriett Giles Dead; Was President of Spellman" in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, 14 Nov 1909,  Page 8; "Death notice for Harriett Giles" in The Clayton Record, Clayton, Alabama, 26 Nov 1909, Page 1; "Spellman Seminary" in The Rochester Daily Register-Gazette, Feb. 16, 1898, via Ancestry.

[4] U.S., High School Student Lists, 1821-1923 for Harriette E Giles, New Hampshire, New Salem Academy, 1853, pages 2, 3 (exact source is Catalogue of Trustees, Instructors and Students of New Salem Academy, Massachusetts, for the year ending November 10, 1853 (Greenfield, MA: Charles A. Mirick, 1853), 2-3); U.S., High School Student Lists, 1821-1923, New Hampshire, New Salem Academy 1855, page 3-4, 6 (exact source is Catalogue of Trustees, Instructors and Students of New Salem Academy, New Salem, Mass., for the year ending November 15, 1855 (Greenfield, MA: Charles A. Mirick, 1853), 3-4, 6); 1880 United States Federal Census for Hattie S. Giles, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, 715, Year: 1880; Census Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 558; Page: 62A; Enumeration District: 715.

Note: This was originally posted on May 8, 2023 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Jason Isaacs on Becoming Cary Grant For ARCHIE Miniseries

In celebration of ARCHIE which is now streaming on BritBox, I recently had the opportunity to interview the star of this new miniseries, Jason Isaacs (“The Patriot,” “Harry Potter” franchise) who played the role of the late great Hollywood legend Cary Grant in this story about his tumultuous life, his upbringing, his romance and his career. This was actually my 3rd time ever interviewing Jason,…

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Bridgerton Season 1 (Complete) | Hollywood Series Download

Wealth, lust, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family. VIDEO INFORMATION Filename: Bridgerton Filesize: 110 MB Duration: Imdb: Genre: Regency romance, Historical Romance, Alternate history Director: Jadesola Osiberu Stars: Adjoa Andoh, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jonathan Bailey, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Harriet Cains,…

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i feel like perhaps shondaland is setting up for theloise. even if theo wasn’t in this season… traces of him were still around? they made subtle references. the book in the drawer. things eloise said that mirror her conversations with theo. how broken she looked when colin said she’d never been in love. the reference to emma (idk if you’re familiar with the story but emma and harriet literally have a fight bc emma ruins harriet’s relationship with a farmer of lower class).

he wasn’t there but in essence, eloise’s story was still deeply tied with his.

it feels like they’re testing the waters and taking time to write out her story. or they’re teasing bc they know it’ll increase the hype. maybe i’m being optimistic but i do feel like there’s still a chance? besides. calam lynch has such “period drama male lead” potential :’)

idk it just seems to make sense. theo and eloise just click. also, the amount of times eloise has said she wants to leave society… it’d make sense for her to marry a rebel and become an outspoken political woman outside the ton.

i don’t think bringing theo in as some long lost heir to a lord would do their story service. it HAS to be eloise breaking out of the society mould and joining likeminded people in a pursuit to revolutionise society and rights for women and the marginalised. their last conversation was theo accusing her of only “dipping her toes in his waters” and not fully committing to the “radicalism” she claims to enjoy. so her story moving forward has to be her committing to her beliefs and actually fighting for something bigger than the superficial and discriminatory ton. she needs to embrace her rebellion in its entirety and make her society understand and embrace it too.

anon, i wish i had your optimism! at this point i’ve resolved to accept this show for what it is. if theo shows up again, wonderful! if not- well, i wasn’t expecting anything anyway.

on the hints: there was this brilliant analysis of emma as it relates to bridgerton posted in the jane austen subreddit. to be honest, after theo’s absence in s3 i don’t think it has any deeper meaning, but the analysis itself was a great read. ditto with the books and the “uncommonly lucky” moment- they may not mean anything, but i like thinking they do :)

yes, yes, yes to your final paragraph as well. as much as i love the idea of a persuasionesque story for theo and eloise, i think it’s better left in the realm of the fanfic i’ll talk about but never get around to actually writing. i want eloise to be brave, to be bold, to grab life and not let go- and part of that is forging her own path away from the ton. with eloise returning to her old (ie political) self in s4, we could see her back at assemblies in bloomsbury or out searching for subversive reading materials. either one would be the perfect setting for another encounter with theo… but like i said, i’m keeping my expectations low!

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For National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) while also acknowledging Harriet the Spy’s place in the LGBTQ world, I came up with the idea of Harriet coming out as queer to Ole Golly! (Harriet’s VA Beanie Feldstein identifies herself as queer and Ole Golly’s VA Jane Lynch is a lesbian!)

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Twin Peaks S1 Ep1 Pilot

I have never watched Twin Peaks or, in fact, anything by David Lynch before.

I knew enough to know it was a bit odd, that it was about the murder of Laura Palmer and that there was "Damn Fine Coffee"

When the pilot started my first thoughts in order were:

"What the fuck is up with the sawmill in the title sequence?"

"I remember being places that looked like this and also I remember all women having that perm. My mother had that perm in 1990."

"How am I going to judge the acting in this? In any other show the acting would be terrible but it fits the vibes wtf?"

The vibes were immediately different and what would have been hack acting was perfectly in keeping with the tone and camera work and music of the scene.

Everything felt just slightly uncanny and weird and I thought "Oh okay this is what people meant."

Then Agent Dale Cooper showed up.

What the absolute fuck is with this guy?

I love him, but also what the fuck is up with him?

And everyone else got like 20% weirder or more around him.

And what the FUCK was up with that one doctor?

It's also weird seeing this after watching a lets play of Alan Wake 2 because I got unreasonably excited about the Norwegians.

Also as a younger sibling Harriet is a true younger sibling.

"Yes I will cover for you!" *immediately spills all at the lightest pressure*

Saying that I liked it! I like the weirdness and uncanny nature of it all and I am suitably intrigued

Ratings:

Story: 6/10 - dragged a bit because the pilot is really long and the show is not fast paced, at least not in the pilot.

Acting: 7/10 - In any other show the acting on display would have been lower but here it fits and I can't explain why

WTF: 7/10 - I had surreal pencilled in for this category but WTF felt more accurate. It would have been a six but then Agent Cooper arrived. Just on him it would have been higher but I need room for the weirdness to go up

Enjoyment: 6.5/10 - I enjoyed it but it did also drag a bit

Effects: 5/10 - weren't really many effects other then Dead Laura makeup so I'm giving it a score that basically means its fine

Charm: 8/10 - I don't know what's happening, everything is weird and painfully 1990s but I do find a charm in this kind of weirdness

Cringe: 0/0 - no cringe

Aged Like Milk: 0/0 - nothing really stood out. Yes there is domestic violence hinted at and shown and general misogyny from some of the men but you're not supposed to be on board with that. At least in this episode

Overall Ranking:

B Tier

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Lucius Henry Holsey was born on July 3, 1842, near Columbus, Georgia. His mother Louisa was enslaved. His father James Holsey owned the plantation. Lucius was born enslaved.

He was sold to his cousin T. L. Wynn and then to Richard Malcolm Johnston, an academic. According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, Holsey chose to be sold to Johnston. According to American National Biography, Holsey taught himself to read and write and was not educated; according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, some of Holsey's relatives taught him to read. He remained enslaved by the Johnston family until slavery was abolished.

Holsey converted to Methodism after attending plantation missionary revivals led by Henry McNeal Turner. He was given a preaching license as a Methodist minister in February 1868 and held various positions as a minister until he was appointed a bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) in March 1873. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was a division of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, created for African people in 1870 during the Reconstruction era.

As a bishop, Holsey founded churches, wrote and revised religious texts including the church's Book of Discipline, and participated in church governance. He also edited a church newspaper, The Gospel Trumpet. He raised funds in support of educational institutions including Paine College; Lane College; Holsey Industrial Institute in Cordele, Georgia; and the Helen B. Cobb Institute for Girls in Barnesville, Georgia.

Initially an advocate for racial cooperation, Holsey endorsed Black separatism around the turn of the 20th century after Sam Hose was lynched in 1899.

In 1898, Holsey published Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays with Franklin Printing & Publishing Company in Atlanta, Georgia. It went through three editions.

Holsey married Harriett Turner on November 8, 1862, or 1863. Harriett was 15 at the time. Her name is also given as Harriett A. Pearce or Harriet A. Turner. Harriett and Lucius met in Hancock County, Georgia, while classes at the University of Georgia, where Johnston taught, were canceled due to the Civil War. Lucius died on August 3, 1920, at his home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta

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Emmett till family i’m so sorry that this goofy broad fixed her face to use compare your relatives tragedy to some nonsense. your entire family deserves better than this

Yall niggas disgust me with this level of dickriding, Emmitt Till was a child! That was tortured and murdered! By Racists who got away with it! Tory is a violent abuser who finally got what he deserved for SHOOTING a woman! He is nothing like Emmitt Till, stfu!

Gurl, I know you did not come on Blue Ivy’s innanet on the eve of Jesus’s Birthday, and compared the late Emmitt Till to this short burned piece of Canadian Bacon named Tory… Have Several pls!

First of all dude is Canadian….. and is not a Black American…… second of all, the disrespect is crazy. Y’all really be on the internet disgracing your or OUR ancestors for some engagement and entertainment. Luckily for me, I could never be a 🦝 nor the type of woman who would throw away my goodness, my integrity my dignity to slut myself out for some punk who ain’t gonna do right by me anyway

Why are we comparing an innocent little boy who was lynched for no reason to an embarrassing man who shot a woman, lied about it , dehumanized her for no reason other than he had a toxic masculinity and violent tendencies because he can’t handle the fact that his music was not that good for anyone to stan him and his only successful song was in a feature with jack harlow and is now facing years in prison?

Some of Y’all will say anything to disrespect Black American history and our ancestors. The audacity of you claiming a CANADIAN gremlin who was rightfully and proven convicted for his crimes against meg thee stallion is equal to Emmett Till shows your lack of knowledge and good sense. Maybe in hindsight George w. Bush no child left behind policy wasn’t the best idea because some children were left behind education wise. Children were deliberately LEFT BEHIND. WHATTT

you need to be hung drawn and quartered for this and afterwards your bones need to be scattered across the street for mongrel dogs to gnaw and crack like Omg y’all going to hell????

The quotes are calling you a pea brained fool, as they should but quite honestly, reading this shocked me because of the sheer disrespect. You misspelled his name and compared a innocent boy whose life was stolen by racists to a man suffering the consequences for his actions. This is why Harriet Tubman had a gun because some of you have ancestors who should have been capped by her

tory lanez ain’t do nothing special for y’all to be defending him like this. Even artists like Chris Brown to Eric Clapton have more high quality music content than that Keebler elf and they’re problematic too. (*Not A defense of the actions of both Brown and Clapton or other hence the “and they’re problematic too “ just so you know) sweetheart He's never going to fuck you. Deal with it

I can’t stand you niggas. i wouldn't even piss or spat on you if you were on fire May the vengeance of the ancestors find you in your sleep.

we will never be free and at this point it’s deserved. We’re surrounded by our worst enemies in the black community and the shackles on our feet will never be released.

a teenage boy who was a victim of violent racism being compared to an ABUSER , harriet shouldn't have gone back for some of y'all ancestors just stay in school!!!!!

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Brindleton Bay Bugle

Fall 1943

Harriet Lynch

Mrs. Harriet Lynch, the widow of Walter Lynch, passed away at her home yesterday, with her family by her side.

Mrs. Lynch was born in Brindleton Bay in 1872. She married Walter Lynch in 1890 and together they had five children. Their marriage lasted 52 years, ended by Mr. Lynch's passing last year. Mrs. Lynch was a loving mother as well as a skilled musician.

Mrs. Lynch is survived by her five children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at Newcrest Church with burial to follow at Willow Hill Cemetery.

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NOT ONLY IN FEBRUARY (POEM)

We don't need the government to tell U.S. that only in February

The birth month of, Frederick Douglas, one of greatest abolitionists, in memory

That it will reluctantly and hesitantly teach U.S. a watered-down version of our glorious Black History.

The only history books about Black folks in which the joke of a Governor, Ron Desantis, would approve of, is a history that's "anti-woke".

Like the Rage Against The Machine song-Bulls On Parade:

"They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove em"

Not just because the books make their "snowflake" children feel guilty, about the harsh realities of slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, red lining , and for-white-profit and black-agony penitentiaries, where like cattle, inmates are kept behind barb wire fences and are kept in check by armed sentries

The books are removed to control the minds of the youth and future policy makers for another century.

Forgot about black history lessons that will inspire the adolescences

No true stories of how Harriet Tubman , like a black woman Moses, spread justice through treacherous enemy lines, like it was the red sea and freed her fellow woman and man from white brutality, chains , whips , and rapes of Antebellum southern slavery, Or how she became a union spy who risked her life behind crimson soaked bloody earth to bring clandestine information to the union to help save northern army lives.

I'm sorry, but in American public pre-schools to universities, in deeply and devilishly red states run by makers of political policies like "anti-woke" lady Arkansas Governor, Sarah Huckabee, in class your babies, young men and ladies will never learn about great men like Pan-Africanist and black freedom fighter, Marcus Mosiah Garvey .

No information on Egypt's 25th Dynasty, that's when in 744 BC Nubian King, Piye, conquered Egypt, and reunited the two African lands of splendid gold jewelry and granite stone pyramids into one Nile Valley Monarchy .

No revolutionary history from the year 1804, that's when a bunch of poorly treated and trained, self-freed maroons, brought black doom and apocalyptic misery upon the Napoleon's Imperial navy and Army in Haiti

This defeat forced the Empire of France to sell its remaining remaining 15 states in "louisiana purchase" territories for for a meager 15 million dollar fee

Creating much of the land in the country of the land of the free that you currently see from sea to shining sea.

At an "anti-woke" elementary, high school, or university, they might let you hear about MLK's "I Have A Dream", but you never hear that that the dream was also anti-Vietnam war or that the dream included reparations for the descendants of the blacks who suffered the world’s worst froms of brutality, lynchings, Jim Crow and slavery.

No student research paper inquiries on how in 1999, in a court in Tennessee, the King family won civilly against Jowers, and several U.S. government agencies, for their part in the Dr.King assassination conspiracy.

If we leave it to the Alt-Right, Matt Walsh and the Ben Shapiro types to rewrite black history, it will read and only in February:

Blacks were put in Antebellum slavery due to their mental inferiority, and kept in modern slavery (mass incarceration) due to their criminality.

No mention of systematic white supremacy, mis-education, and over-policing and poverty.

#Poetry #BlackHistory

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Weak Black Male Willingly Allowed Alex Stein To Feed Him A Banana During Racial Humiliation -  Phillip Scott Podcast

Ok I have to put a commentary to this post. this was very disturbing!

WHAT THE HELL IS REALLY GOING ON HERE!!!!!

After running across this post I begin to have very deep thoughts about the state of our black people, no not the B1′s but the black people who are still sleep and in a WS euphoria of lies and propaganda. The ones who have not freed their minds so their behinds can follow.

The ones with their head in the sand, will not pick up a book to learn the real history of black people in America and abroad as well as the ancient history of our ancestors; are still not realizing that they are allowed to read now.

I also gave thought to the fact that we as a people have to own our own shit also and stand up to the fool lala we are a part of. There are three adages, 

1 There is two sides to a coin

2 When you know better, you do better.

3 See something - say something (speak on the bad behavior as well also)

In the future we at BP will be doing more post of the other side of the coin - that will emphasize to do better, move better, be better. Stop the madness and fool lala and be B1 first and foremost. 

Also, I came to the sad but truth, that some are still on the plantation of old mentally, the names like coon, racoon, uncle tom, sell out and so on to just name a few - are so rightly deserved for behavior of some black people.

All are doing tumble flips and spinning in their graves, shaking saying we did not fight and die for this behavior - MLK, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Medgar Evers, Frederick Douglas, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Fred Hampton,Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, The Mississippi 3 freedom fighters,Emmett Till, all the black people lynched then and now, all the black people who loss their life due to WS.........This is not by any means an ordered comprehensive list, it is just the names that some come to mind while writing this post, there is a myriad of more names you can add.

We have been marching and wearing paraphernalia that say BLACK LIVES MATTER. but then for some who do not act like their live matter, let alone black lives as a collective. However, until we learn from within our own life matter with respect and dignity, the saying black lives matter will only be a slogan on a tee and not on our hearts and minds.

Phil Scott had a lot to say in his above podcast that step on some toes (as the old folk would say) but he told it like a ti is - take time to listen it a good podcast. *BP*

BLACK PARAPHERNALIA DISCLAIMER - PLEASE READ

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News

How this country star’s hit song unexpectedly catalyzed the Montgomery riverfront brawl

By Anna Beahm | abeahm@reckonmedia.com

Jason Aldean’s chart-topping, controversial country song, “Try That in a Small Town,” became the soundtrack to the racially-charged confrontation that went viral this week. (GettyImages) (Getty)

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Country star Jason Aldean’s latest song “Try that in a Small Town” was already criticized for promoting a “pro-lynching mentality,” but now it’s part of social media videos of a fight between a black worker and white boaters in Montgomery, Ala.

The song starts with a list of criminal behaviors including carjacking and harassing police officers as behaviors that would not be tolerated “in a small town,” as the chorus goes. The song also asks “if you’re lookin for a fight, try that in a small town.”

While catchy and clearly a hit, the tune has been criticized by political activists like Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, and country greats like Sheryl Crow, who said “even people in small towns are sick of violence.”

Violence is exactly what happened on Sunday when officials said a Black dock worker and white boaters got into a dispute that turned into a brawl between Black and white boaters at the dock in Montgomery, Ala. The worker had apparently asked the boater to move the boat to make room for the Harriet II Riverboat that usually docks in that location, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.

The song joined the Montgomery River Brawl when TikTok users put the song over videos of the fight. Some users said they were reclaiming the song for the Black community invested in Montgomery.

The Montgomery Police Dept. said the man was attacked “for simply doing his job.” Police have also issued arrest warrants for several people involved in the fight.

Dillon Nettles, a policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, posted on X Monday morning about the fight.

“The significance of the riverfront where this fight took place shouldn’t be lost. This is where our ancestors were transported and marched in shackles up Commerce [Street] to be sold. Montgomery was once one of the most prominent slave trading markets in the country,” Nettles posted.

The story was trending on X Tuesday morningalong with the hashtags #Alabamaboatbrawl and #montgomerybrawl. TikTok users were also posting videos of the fight with an audio clip from Aldean’s song.

“Probably not how they anticipated this song being used,” TikTok user @dazzlingblu said in a comment.

Other users commented on the use of the song with the clips saying “the flip of the century for that song,” and “uno reverse.”

The song was originally a ballad for “small-town” folks who opposed “big city” ideas (and threatened them with violence). In the comments under one TikTok video, users were reclaiming the song, making it the 180-degree turn no one expected for the song.

TikTok user @abbysworldsastage posted a video about the incident between a white woman and a chair-weilding black man, saying that she thought people who were upset about a man hitting a woman with a chair were deflecting from the real issue at the root of the fight: racial violence.

“When I watched that vid, [sic] I saw a community coming together to protect each other, and an impressive use of available tools. I’m not about to say just swinging on women or anyone is okay, but I certainly don’t think that was the problem with the whole situation, and the focus on it feels like deflection to me,” she said in the video caption.

The fight happened over the weekend after former President Donald Trump visited Montgomery on Friday to attend and give remarks at a Republican Party dinner. However, it’s unclear if those involved in the fight attended Trump’s event.

Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to new charges related to the classified files discovered at his Florida mansion last year.

The controversy and boycott

The song, music video and resulting controversy around it has led some conservatives to call for a boycott of Country Music Television (CMT) for pulling the music video off its streaming platform.

Last month, CMT canceled Aldean’s music video after backlash related to the song’s suggestions of “looking for a fight.” Speaking of, the music video for the song featured shots of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., where Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, was hanged in 1927 after he was falsely accused of attacking a white girl.

Featuring the location in the shot led to calls for a boycott of the video, which some critics said represented a “pro-lynching” stance.

Earlier this year Bud Light and Chick-Fil-A were caught with similar backlash, as conservative fans call for a boycott of the entertainment group. Other musicians involved in the political culture wars including Lee Greenwood, have also issued statements criticizing CMT’s decision and offering support for Aldean.

Conservative politicians across the country have also extended their welcome to Aldean in the wake of the music video cancellation.

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[abstractindividual]

The hatred toward reparations for African Americans.

Salutation to my blog, I want to share my feelings on the reparations movement and the viritol that is being received by many bigoted people. This will be a long post as a disclaimer. This tweets I'll share is not for a "witch hunt," but bringing awareness to an issue not receiving enough media attention with discrimination and racism toward African Americans and reparations.

To start, the word reparation means to make amends for a wrongdoing, usually through compensation.

African Americans were promised reparations (40 acres and a mule) after the horrific treatments of slavery, but the promise was never honored for all. Here is an article from PSB that discusses the topic.

The topic with reparations to me did not gain such animosity until Black Americans began to demand what is owed, and the reason is not only due to slavery. For over 400 years there have been cases of

Lynchings and the many unsolved murders

Stolen land (Tulsa massacre, Forsyth, GA, African American farmers)

Human experimentation (Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington discusses this), The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Jim Crow Era

Racism and discrimination in the military and medical industry (e.g. Henrietta Lacks and Black women neglected in hospitals)

Redlining

Police brutality

COINTELPRO from the FBI (spying on the civil rights members and Black Panther Party)

Cases like Emmett Till, The Birmingham Church bombing, Tulsa or Rosewood massacre, The 1985 Philadelphia bombing, Frank Embree, James Byrd Jr. leading up to today with Elijah McClain, Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Sinzae Reed. Don't forget The Buffalo shooting in 2022 and the racism case for the Black Colorado ranchers experiencing racism for putting up a BLM flag.

More restlessness came the more injustice happened. The topic of reparations is growing more than ever on social media. Unfortunately that brought the attention to many bigoted people on different platforms, to where I chose to take screenshots as proof:

I took many screenshots, but will only share these examples I have seen on Twitter. There are many protesting reparations on Instagram, YouTube and other platforms as well.

There is constant hostility and aggression toward African Americans, yet I have NEVER seen this for other people who received compensation from America, like the Jews from the Auschwitz Holocaust, the Japanese in internment camps and also billions for other countries.

This nation is known for giving out land and money to other countries and citizens here in America. From free land for Caucasians through The Homestead Act, to the G.I. Bill, to reparations given to other groups.

As a serious question to the reader who reached this far: Why are people against reparations when this country had no trouble giving out money and land to other races? I'm in favor reparations for all who were wronged, and this is no different for my people here or victims of racism and colonialism in Brazil, Africa, Australia, Canada and other continents. The fight for justice will continue, but I want a genuine answer why these people are angry against reparations for African Americans.

[blackhistorychatgpt]

Great Figures

me: Can you give me 50 important Black historical figures that I can study with a short bio for each of them?

ChatGPT:

Certainly, here are 50 important Black historical figures along with a short bio for each:

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) - Civil rights leader who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advocated for nonviolent resistance to racism and segregation.

Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913) - Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and later became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved people to freedom.

Barack Obama (1961-) - First Black president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) - Born into slavery, Douglass escaped and became a prominent abolitionist, writer, and speaker.

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) - South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who became the country's first Black president.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) - Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) - Poet, author, and civil rights activist who wrote the autobiographical book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) - Civil rights leader, historian, and sociologist who co-founded the NAACP and was the first Black person to earn a PhD from Harvard.

Malcolm X (1925-1965) - Civil rights activist and leader of the Nation of Islam, known for his advocacy of Black self-determination and his criticism of nonviolent resistance.

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) - Born into slavery, Truth became an abolitionist and women's rights activist, giving her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851.

Angela Davis (1944-) - Political activist and author who was involved in the Black Panther Party and later became a professor of philosophy.

Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) - Historian and author who founded Black History Month and dedicated his life to promoting the study of African American history.

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) - Civil rights lawyer who argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before becoming the first Black Supreme Court justice.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) - Political trailblazer who was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black person to seek a major party's nomination for president.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) - Author and civil rights activist who wrote about the experiences of Black Americans in works such as "The Fire Next Time" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain."

Mae Jemison (1956-) - Astronaut who became the first Black woman in space in 1992.

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) - Jamaican-born political leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated for Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) - Journalist and civil rights activist who documented lynching and other forms of violence against Black people.

Medgar Evers (1925-1963) - Civil rights activist who worked to desegregate schools and public places in Mississippi before being assassinated by a white supremacist.

Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) - Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, which advocated for Black self-defense, community empowerment, and socialism.

Paul Robeson (1898