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History Lesson

 

The Lessons of the Great Beaufort Skedaddle 

 

"It is estimated 8-10,000 slaves were left behind in the Sea Islands when the white population fled. They were soon joined by thousands of others who escaped to the region once they realized that Northern occupation meant freedom. They all needed food and shelter, and since the Emancipation Proclamation had yet to happen, their legal status, beyond being “contraband,” was unclear. The Army asked for help and received it in the form of the Port Royal Experiment. Financed and organized by Northern abolitionist charities, the Experiment worked as a test case to create self-sufficiency among the former slaves. Its success points to what Reconstruction might have been if less corruption and more competence had been at its helm. Northern missionaries and teachers flocked to the Sea Islands to create schools and aid societies. Former slaves were allowed to farm the confiscated plantations and were paid $1 per 400 lbs of cotton they were able to harvest.  The Penn School on St. Helena Island was one of the earliest schools established for freed slaves and can be visited as part of the Penn Center today."

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Goodness

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle 

- Socrates

Judy, Judy, Judy

This is more just a note to self since I keep forgetting the name of this painting...

Judith beheading Holofernes

Also, and more subversively, Kehinde Wiley's take...

Wiley’s 2012 take on Judith and Holofernes causes a stir

.....yes, that Kehinde Wiley....as in the official President Obama portrait painter.

I'm Buying Stock in Pitchfork Companies Now

 

 Yves absolutely nails it with this article:

What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?

 "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
—Jay Gould, 1886

It’s normally a bad idea to denigrate the other side’s supporters in a fight, especially in a political fight like the one we’re currently witnessing, and especially when the game that’s really being played is the oligarch’s version of Eric Berne’s “Let’s You and Him Fight” — the one where the rich get the poor to kill each other, while they steal the both of them blind."

Ouroboros

I was this old when I learned that a serpent eating its tail is known as an: Ouroboros

How Do You Spell Kakistocracy Again?

 "The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election."

House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays 

Time To Fight

From the article outlining why Wisconsin might be in play for Joe Biden:

 How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate

 "His current mood reminded him of an unruly cow that once wandered off his farm. “I was on a four-wheeler and was trying to round her up,” he said. “I chased her round and round. Then she got tired of me chasing her and she stopped, turned, and she was going to fight. She was too tired to run, but she was going to use what she had left. She was challenging me—she was going to fight. I guess that’s where I’m at. I’m running my ass off, I’m tired, and I don’t have the energy to run anymore. But, by God, I’ve got enough in me to stand here and fight.”

Generous Orthodoxy

I'm cruising thru the back catalog of "Revisionist History" and came across the episode titled "Generous Orthodoxy" (Season 1 Episode 9) 

 In Malcoms own words, generous orthodoxy is "...comes from a theologian named Hans Frei. It’s an oxymoron, of course. To be orthodox is to be committed to tradition. To be generous, as Frei defines it, is to be open to change. But Frei thought the best way to live our lives was to find the middle ground because orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty. One of the hardest things in the world is to find that balance. Not just for those pursuing a life of faith but for anyone interested in making their world better. I think Chester Wenger shows us the way."

Here is the letter mentioned in Malcom Gladwells article

An Open Letter To My Beloved Church