America has lost a city the size of Kanas City, Kansas -150K People to Covid-19

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America has lost a city the size of Kanas City, Kansas - 

150K People to Covid-19 

RIP?

Flyers / Schaefer Advertisement - Inquirer 13 Oct 1968

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Trump and Kim - Jabberwocky

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      The frumious Bandersnatch!”

Tom Cotton - the Best Senator Money, Walmart, Arkansas and the Klan Can Buy

Sen. Tom Cotton's Family on the docks in 1619 welcoming African immigrants. With Chains.


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We Are The Worst - A Trump Charity Scam

Representative Ted Yoho 3rd Florida - Charter Member "He Man Women Haters' Club" - (Knuckledragger)

Kanye West - Dropped On His Head As A Baby? - Harriet Tubman

Donald Trump and Saint Frank Rizzo of Philly

"...as igorant as you..."


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Trump Latest Tamtrum At White House / Trump S*** House

George W Bush and Bill Clinton's WH portraits banned to the Family Dining Room (service closet for the big dining room) in favor of little fingered McKinley Big fingered Teddy Roosevelt portraits in White House foyer / main guest gathering room. Some remarks by Mexican President (no doubt favorable) last week about W and or Bill got them banned from his majesty's tantrum vision.

Lincoln Project - Ivanka Trump "Let Them Eat Cake"

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Death and Taxes - July 15, 2020

New Tax Day.

Like the New Coke?

Been there. Done that.

In terms of bucket list things I do not have. Been there. Done that before the cheesy movie.

Three things come to mind of the things that I had not done in life thus far before that movie. 

One. Never been to Disney Land or Disney World. Have never been inclined to visit. Do not think that fantasy in a box from a factory works for everyone.

I do recall my aunt and uncle and cousins packing into a car and driving to California and back to be part of that American "happening" in the late fifties.

They brought me back a souvenir. A cheap black felt cap with a Mickey Mouse sticker on the front of it and along with very disappointingly floppy black ears that did not stand up on their own like they did on the Mickey Mouse Club TV show.

"My favorite aunt went to Disney Land and all I got was this lousy cheesy little rip off fake Mickey Mouse hat."

Two. As an adult I always felt cheated that I never learned to swim as a kid. No opportunities so to speak. And nobody, my parents, swam etc. A trip to the lakes in Jersey or to the Jersey shore was wading into water or occupying space in water deep enough to stand up in.

Took an adult swim class a Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn. Missed a few classes. Conflicts with my work schedule. Could not leave work in Big Bank until the Federal Reserve Bank closed at 6:30 PM or later.

Learned the basics but have little comfort in my ability at this time in life of being able to swim ashore from a sinking ferry etc. LOL

Third, and I don't know where this came from. Took ice skating lessons before I started dating my wife in the eighties. I presently remember a hand me down box of stuff from cousins when they cleaned out the attic and moved into a new house. One items was a pair of male ice skates. They were far too big to fit me from a teenager cousin. Something he wore when skating on Pennypack Creek when frozen over in the winter near his house.

One winter, there was a patch of ice in the back side of Horn School across the street. And I dug out the black male skates and took a couple pair of socks with me and tried to fit into a very much larger pair of skates than my foot size.

For some reasons, there were some kids not from the neighborhood, skating in the back of Horn School, skating with skates. Slipping and sliding in regular shoes some were doing for entertainment. One of the strangers was a cute little girl with white skates and lone nylon leggings, a regular skating outfit almost. She knew how to skate or at least be able to make figure 8-s. She talked to me briefly telling me how she learned to skate as I sat on a cold pavement still fumbling with skates that would not fit no matter how many socks I piled on. In retrospect I think of Charlie Brown and his little Red Head friend etc. on that one.

Took lessons in the middle of nowhere back when. 10th Ave and 33rd street, used to be a Citibank check processing building, fifteen stories high, a concrete bunker kind of beauty in the building with an ice skating rink on the roof. The rink is gone now, building covered in solar panels one side? and now in the middle of the Hudson Yards development.

Back then off the grid and a ten minute walk from the closest subway. Of course there was the cross town bus, but you don't wanna go there. Can walk faster than that sardine can etc. 

Got enough falls and black and blue marks on some very hard ice when I fell frequently to skate in a straight line from one side to the other but forget the circles around the rink. 

Which led me to confirm what I already knew in terms of swimming and ice skating, that I was not athletically inclined as a child or as a young adult.

Which leads me to say that I have no other bucket list at this moment if that is what it could be called. etc. 

"...the only thing you have to do in life is pay taxes and die." ~~ Sister Sponsa Regis IHM, 8th grade teacher. 

Truman and his Crisis of Confidence in Experts - 1946

POTUS Menagerie - CAT

Our Lady of Tucson Wears a Face Mask - Tears for Arizona

My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love - Berlin 1990

Popular when Vladimir Putin stationed in East Germany.

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Tearing Down Queen Liz's Ancestor - Bowling Green NYC - July 9, 1776

New York patriots pull down the statue of George III at Bowling Green NYC, 9th July 1776, ~~ 1854 (colour litho), Walcutt, William (1819-95) / Private Collection

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American Gothic - in St. Louis MO - June 30, 2020

Mark and Pat McCloskey defending their mansion in St. Louis Mo. Where are the cops when you need them?

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General, President, Slave Owner, Native Genocider Andrew Jackson's Statue in Lafayette Park Dodges A Demise

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Not Exactly Your Dad's GOP In Congress

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Cheating Black People in America - June 16, 2020

Cheating

Black People

from Slavery

to Wendy's

= America's Prime

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Trevor Noah on the Imminent Dangers of Being Black in America

On comment of many recent events and the deaths of unarmed African Americans at the hands of armed police...

"... maybe if you were not black, you still would be alive."
                                                                                                  ~~ Trevor Noah, 15 June 2020

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This Cultural Christian - Daily Commentary - June 15, 2020 - 15 June 2020

Jail = Chains

4 some Minorities. 

Reasons 4 Fear.

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Christopher Columbus - White Heroic Hero and Founder of the Feast of Gilded Age America

With all this talk of revisionist history and taking this or that statue down and that monument moved because it no longer survives purity testing on the PC(Policing) Left, may I propose that Christopher Columbus as an Italian symbol is largely an American Public Relations feat achieved around 1892 and after, and it covers many areas. 

In my own research of Gilded Age New York, regarding the rich Irish of the times in that city, I ran into this Columbus as a brave European Hero to discover and convert the savages theme. That the Italian Italians in Italy have a lot more choice when it comes to national heroes. That freshly arrived immigrants from Italy to America were already bombarded with a packaged PR "White" hero, that they could hardly refuse, and supported with statues from Italy for Columbus Circle built with subscription funds supposedly from the Italian masses like the "World's" subscription of pennies to build a base for Lady Liberty etc.  

That reading Wikipedia now one would not know that the public partyline on all that does not mention how the World's Fair in Chicago - the "White City" of cutting edge electricity housed in plaster Roman temples around a lake on Lake Michigan and called the "Columbian Exposition" after whoever Columbus was(?) - was much more than any volunteer Italian immigrant efforts of the time in that matter. 

This packaged white European myth was continued with the years with the occasional dream of Countess Annie Leary and her friend Hetty Green "the Witch of Wall Street" and the richest woman in the world when she died with 50 plus million dollars in 1916 from a lifetime of tightly managing her Quaker pennies from a lifetime of eating her own ---- , these stories fed to papers by Leary and Green, like to the NYT for fill more than for true fulfillment lent itself to the importance of a guy like the pirate from Spain ... that a proposed international college on top of a hill in Staten Island with the largest statue of the world of Christopher Columbus never got built - a proposed pet project of these two old crony rich ladies. 

One that a philanthropist like Countess Leary was never that rich as Hetty but gave more like ten million in her lifetime to Catholic Charities, one of them the Italian immigrants in the lower east side and Greenwich village, operating soup kitchens, a settlement house, schools, and the Italian parish of Our Lady of Pompei, single handedly in many times, the RC AD of NYC with its Irish Hierarchy looking the other way regarding Italian immigrant welfare and the Vatican who did notice and rewarded her on two successive occasions by two successive popes - with the title of Papal Countess - 

Countess Leary, the only R.C. on "the" Mrs. Astor's 400 society list along with her brother - Annie's late unmarried banker brother the source of her philanthropy to the tune of an estimated 7 to 20 million - Arthur Leary being a lifelong friend from childhood of "the" Mr. Astor married to "the" Mrs. Astor btw. 


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N.A.A.C.P. Annual Report 1921 - IV Race Riots Tulsa

IV

RACE RIOTS

TULSA

The greatest race disturbance during 1921 took place at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1. On the afternoon of that date the City Editor of the New York Evening Post telephoned the National Office asking if it had any statement to make regarding the riot then taking place in Tulsa. At that time the National Office had no knowledge of the affair, but within six hours the Assistant Secretary was on his way to make an investigation for the Association. Meanwhile reports continued to come in which showed that one of the most serious race riots in the country's history was in progress. The newspapers reported that practically the entire colored residence section of Tulsa was in flames, that shooting was going on and that motor cars and airplanes were being used by the whites. The Secretary telegraphed Governor Robertson of Oklahoma asking that he use the powers of his office to stop the disorders and offering the full cooperation of the N. A. A. C. P. 

The Assistant Secretary reported that the riot was caused by an unfounded charge of attempted criminal assault, lodged by an hysterical white girl against a colored boy of 19. She claimed that the attempt was made in broad daylight in the passenger elevator of a public office building located on one of the main streets of Tulsa, a thriving and bustling city of one hundred thousand inhabitants. On hearing the rumor, a mob set out to wreak its vengeance with out pausing to question the truth or plausibility of the story. In its wild rampage, lasting a night and a day, the mob destroyed forty-four square blocks of property, the entire colored district, valued at more than $1,500,000, and looted and plundered homes and business places before setting fire to them. A number of lives, white and colored, were lost in the fighting. 

Back of the immediate cause of the riot were bitterness against Negro citizens of Tulsa and municipal inefficiency in checking the outburst. A number of colored men in Oklahoma had accumulated wealth through the oil wells and the business following new discoveries of producing wells. Poor whites were jealous of these members of a supposedly inferior race who had made greater economic progress than they. This was particularly true of Tulsa where there were a dozen colored men and women reported to be worth from $25,000 to $150,000. Another factor was the spirit of cooperation among the colored people and their refusal to do such business with white merchants as they could do with merchants of their own race. Combined with this was a determined attitude of aggression against disfranchisement, “Jim-Crowism,” peonage and lynching, which some of the whites thought was too outspoken. 

The corrupt political conditions in Tulsa played their part. Tulsa was controlled by a vice ring and completely dominated by bootleggers, hold-up men, proprietors of houses of ill-fame and gambling dens, while decent citizens showed little or no interest in local politics. At the time of the riot there were thousands of cases awaiting trial in a county with a population of but little more than one hundred thousand. With something like one indictment against six out of every one hundred citizens, the court dockets were so clogged that criminals worked with impunity, knowing there was little or no chance of their ever being tried, if arrested and indicted. 

A feud between the two local daily newspapers had contributed to the feeling of bitterness. One of them carried the story of the alleged assault as a scoop over the other paper, and it was this story that brought about the riot. A mob of whites formed around the jail to lynch the boy. On hearing of this, a group of colored men telephoned the sheriff offering to assist in protecting the jail and the prisoner. The sheriff refused the aid, but later, when reports reached the colored section of Tulsa that the mob was storming the jail, these colored men hurried over to disperse it. 

A fight ensued when a member of the mob attempted to take a gun from one of the colored men, but it was short. Early next morning the mob, estimated at ten thousand, attacked the colored settlement in force with airplanes and bombs, with machine guns, rifles, pistols, cans of dynamite and of oil. The fighting was fierce, the colored men defending their homes bravely, but the odds were too great against them. Murder, arson, plundering and pillage went on until state troops were summoned late the next day.

The colored boy accused of assault was placed on trial in Tulsa soon after the riot and was completely exonerated. Yet this unfounded rumor caused the loss of one hundred lives and millions of dollars worth of property. The Assistant Secretary was enabled to make a thorough investigation through his good fortune in being able to secure an appointment as special deputy sheriff in Tulsa. This enabled him to secure the facts at first hand. His findings were published in dispatches to the New York Evening Post, in The Nation and in the press generally, being quoted in The Literary Digest of June.