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Show Notes:
- MacOS updates are fun
- Is the Orange Man leading through incompetence, dementia, or both?
- VP talk for 2020
- Can Obama be VP then become President again?
- Please don't steal a Senator for VP
- Social distancing in restaurants
- for NY, check forward.ny.gov
- Coronavirus shows macho leaders are weak leaders
- Gone with the Wind going bye bye (temporarily)
- These "southern" statues were erected during the civil rights movement, not after the Civil War
- COPS is off TV after 30+ years
- Gin, or hand sanitizer?
- Aqua Dots, the toy that doubles as a roofie
- You can get a 3-vial set of vehicle fluids from a screen-used KITT car
- JK Rowling and not being okay with transgender people
- Ball Wash
- Voretaq shares a squirrel story
I did not realize that the next step in PA after green is "new normal".
ReplyDeleteI thought this was an interesting story: https://www.americanpress.com/news/national/into-the-wild-bus-removed-from-alaska-backcountry/article_aa792212-0333-5095-9589-35b0f035c83d.html A man died in the 90s because the area is so isolated. Then, idiots tried to hike into the area to see it and had to be rescued. There was a movie about it called "Into the Wild".
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting story this morning: Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street".[1] It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which white residents massacred as many as 300 black residents, injuring hundreds more. The riot was one of the most devastating massacres in the history of U.S. race relations, destroying the once-thriving Greenwood community.[1]
ReplyDeleteWithin ten years after the massacre, surviving residents who chose to remain in Tulsa rebuilt much of the district.[2] They accomplished this despite the opposition of many white Tulsa political and business leaders and punitive rezoning laws enacted to prevent reconstruction.[2] It continued as a vital black community until segregation was overturned by the federal government during the 1950s and 1960s. Desegregation encouraged black citizens to live and shop elsewhere in the city, causing Greenwood to lose much of its original vitality. Since then, city leaders have attempted to encourage other economic development activity nearby.[2] It started over a black man accused of killing a white person. Will we ever learn?
Now will we be BLACKBALLED at the Hampton Inn since we have the same name?
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