Archive For October 12, 2021
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin The Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Mine Riot and Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict and a racial conflict in central Illinois that occurred on October 12, 1898. After a United Mine Workers of America local struck…
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary…
A riot is the language of the unheard. – Martin Luther King, Jr. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, midwifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of…
It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done. – Vincent Van Gogh Dawn. Take the dogs to the kennel. Bust out of house arrest. We headed for the first place anybody would think…
Is he crazy? No one has ever told me my doodles are good, not that I flash them around or anything. Gen likes them, but she also thinks vampire romances are literature and sings along to ‘Islands in the Stream.’ Her tastes are dubious. She’s not a reliable source. – Jules Barnard Meet Mr. Doodle, the artist from…