tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post3712080683226550892..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: A Semi-Open Thread Friday: Refreshing Our Mental Palate After the Elliot Rodger Saga and Sharing Found News ItemsLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62581884139783021392014-06-01T14:46:30.165-05:002014-06-01T14:46:30.165-05:00Tears on my face after watching the video.Tears on my face after watching the video.Buddy Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-46094046722151291842014-06-01T12:57:02.896-05:002014-06-01T12:57:02.896-05:00My smile-cry of the week was about the goat and bu...My smile-cry of the week was about the goat and burrow who were separated after being rescued from an animal hoarder and how the goat became horribly depressed. Solution? Reunite the pair! Their reunion reminded me that animals are once more better than people.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-56384573191406098702014-06-01T10:08:21.581-05:002014-06-01T10:08:21.581-05:00As for the rest of it, the VA scandal, Ukraine, th...As for the rest of it, the VA scandal, Ukraine, the Afghan captive being released, all of it tends to be of a piece, a stream of electronic media conscious of "news" as propaganda, whereas not much in terms of what happens day to day, week in and week out changes; nor are the reactions of our institutions and those who run them are any different. Its S.O.S. <br /><br /><br />From the outside looking in its easy to see these stories as of a piece that in the end makes it all "business as usual."Gable1111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-61506793840581495232014-06-01T10:03:08.879-05:002014-06-01T10:03:08.879-05:00Its stories like this that help cleanse my mental ...Its stories like this that help cleanse my mental palate after the bad taste of the Elliot Rodger and the excuses from his cultural bosom buddies:<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/man-with-alzheimers-buys-wife-flowers_n_5398917.html<br /><br /><br /><br />This story brought tears to my eyes.Gable1111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-21909905388439982542014-06-01T09:50:29.065-05:002014-06-01T09:50:29.065-05:00Damn.Damn.Gable1111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-26155334784473876762014-06-01T09:48:37.958-05:002014-06-01T09:48:37.958-05:00That is good news and evidence that money doesn...That is good news and evidence that money doesn't always have to win, if people turn out for a cause.Gable1111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-58598864286076603092014-05-31T12:31:47.373-05:002014-05-31T12:31:47.373-05:00And folks laugh when I say that the White Right wa...And folks laugh when I say that the White Right wants to kill the "useless eaters", i.e. poor black and brown people.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-66599461129677810502014-05-31T12:31:15.643-05:002014-05-31T12:31:15.643-05:00Any doubt? There are underground cities all over E...Any doubt? There are underground cities all over Europe too. Apparently, in this ruined economy people are reclaiming them. I have read about that occurring in the U.S. too, where people who have lost their jobs and homes have been living underground--not just the sewers--but digging out compounds.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-83140796855029158582014-05-31T11:30:34.070-05:002014-05-31T11:30:34.070-05:00"you can kill a murderer, but you can't k..."you can kill a murderer, but you can't kill murder." MLK<br /><br /><br />gruesomeMyshkin the Idiothttps://www.facebook.com/myshkintheidiotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-55371803526310321482014-05-31T11:28:26.362-05:002014-05-31T11:28:26.362-05:00I forgot my favorite piece of new.
Obama decided ...I forgot my favorite piece of new.<br /><br />Obama decided to address sports related injuries in American youth. He said we have a "culture that needs to stop telling their kids to 'suck it up.'"<br /><br /><br />He is trying to give white American men heart attacks, it's one of their secret missions.Myshkin the Idiothttps://www.facebook.com/myshkintheidiotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62166814165968194112014-05-31T10:27:54.961-05:002014-05-31T10:27:54.961-05:00I just saw an article on spooky underground cities...I just saw an article on spooky underground cities and nestled in the was a sketching of people entering a tunnel in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The caption reads;<br /><br />"For 47 days in 1863, Vicksburg in <br />Mississippi was laid siege by Yankee forces, with 16,000 artillery <br />rounds fired into the town. Residents dug a complex network of caves, <br />and only around a dozen people were killed. Photograph: Alamy"<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/may/30/underground-cities-in-pictures<br /><br />My first thought was that they most likely has the slaves, not residents, dig out those underground networks.SabrinaBeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-37405799064080769452014-05-31T09:48:03.668-05:002014-05-31T09:48:03.668-05:00I certainly hope he knows how to keep his nose cle...I certainly hope he knows how to keep his nose clean, second guesses all the he does and any "advice" he may receive. If there is anything that will reveal the weakness of a person it is the den of temptation that is politics.SabrinaBeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-76313040895427212882014-05-31T09:44:08.487-05:002014-05-31T09:44:08.487-05:00Florida dearly loves sloughing the skin off of hum...Florida dearly loves sloughing the skin off of human beings.<br /><br />http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117898/lethal-injection-photos-angel-diazs-botched-execution-florida<br /><br />Monsters executing monsters.SabrinaBeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-79082180278570121712014-05-31T05:59:10.444-05:002014-05-31T05:59:10.444-05:00The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Hara...The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram have been located but cannot be rescued yet.<br /><br />Far-right parties in Europe have gotten stronger.<br /><br />16 year old transgender girl is in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/transgender-16-year-old-solitary-cell-adult-prison" title="prison" rel="nofollow">prison</a><br /><br /><br /><br />A woman arrested on drug charges gave birth to a baby while in solitary confinement. Her baby died.<br /><br /><br />A story came out of Miami of a man killed in prison by guards when he was sprayed with scalding hot water until his skin came off as discipline back in 2012.<br /><br /><br />Planned demonstration in Chicago aimed at curbing violence by getting people out in the most dangerous neighborhoods.<br /><br /><br />House of Representatives cut funding for urban summer food programs while creating a new summer food program for rural kids.Myshkin the Idiothttps://www.facebook.com/myshkintheidiotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-92108121275448323452014-05-30T21:34:11.013-05:002014-05-30T21:34:11.013-05:00A bit of Civil War sesquicentennial African-Americ...A bit of Civil War sesquicentennial African-American trivia: <br /><br /><br />This summer will mark General Sherman's march through north Georgia, the fall of Atlanta, the March to the Sea and then the fall of Savannah. The battlefield parks in north Georgia are holding various anniversary events & etc., and crowds are hiking their grounds. <br /><br />On the northwest shoulder of Atlanta, in the Kennesaw Mountain area, there are remnants of the Confederate fortifications: zigzag trenches, rifle pits, cannon revetments, all overgrown but still recognizable. They were dug by rebel soldiers as they fell back under Sherman's onslaught.<br /><br />But down close to the Chattahoochee River there are some unique fortifications called <a href="http://www.riverline.org/Pages/TheShoupades.aspx" rel="nofollow">shoupades</a>, after the Confederate general Francis Shoup, who designed them. They were arrowhead-shaped pits, with platforms for riflemen to fire over the rims. They saw no action as the fighting did not come that way, and some still remain, overgrown and partially filled in.<br /><br />According to the historical markers, these earthworks were not built by the soldiers, but by slaves from nearby plantations, dragooned by General Johnston. The riverside plantations are long gone, but many of the family cemeteries remain, nestled in between lots, behind factories, and etc. And so, remarkably, we know the names of the slaves who built the shoupades, the surnames at least. The slaves who built these structures, which you can still see today, would have been surnamed McWilliams, Hooper, Sewell, Turner, Green, Howell, maybe Ferguson if they came from plantations that far south. I don't offhand know of any other structures which survive today, which were built by slaves, who we can at least partially identify. This strikes me as remarkable, & I hope you find it interesting.The Sanity Inspectorhttp://atlantarofters.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-7713068048474179502014-05-30T18:55:24.275-05:002014-05-30T18:55:24.275-05:00For events unfolding in the Ukraine I go to this b...For events unfolding in the Ukraine I go to this blog: vineyardsaker.blogspot.com<br />Probably the most up-to-date, informative and thoughtful resource on the subject around.Craignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-67815975258163934432014-05-30T16:31:07.541-05:002014-05-30T16:31:07.541-05:00I didn't know that he won. I saw Amiri Baraka ...I didn't know that he won. I saw Amiri Baraka get into a fight with one of his old school enemies years back about a woman they both slept with. Funny story.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-22832670938951612022014-05-30T16:30:19.970-05:002014-05-30T16:30:19.970-05:00Not yet. On the list though.Not yet. On the list though.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-77550787908921428252014-05-30T15:40:47.344-05:002014-05-30T15:40:47.344-05:00Did you get a chance to read That Evening Sun? I&#...Did you get a chance to read That Evening Sun? I'm wondering what you think of it. I have the story as a pdf if you need it.Craignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-85587911031002135002014-05-30T15:01:34.831-05:002014-05-30T15:01:34.831-05:00One news event that flew under the radar... Ras Ba...One news event that flew under the radar... Ras Baraka is the new mayor of Newark, NJ. This makes me glad in a million ways, because he was the Central High School principal, and ran against the powerful charter school schemers. He defeated their asses, despite all their Zuckerberg money.<br /><br />I haven't seen much about him in the news. He was crowded out by more grotesque headlines about virgin mass murderers.<br /><br />You can hear him on Lauryn Hill's 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. <br /><br />He published a collection of poems Black Girls Learn Love Hard.<br /><br /><br /><br />A poet and a public high school educator. Again, this makes me glad in a million ways.<br /><br /><br />His father wrote the play <i>Dutchman</i> under the name LeRoi Jones. You can see the film version on youtube.<br /><br /><br />I am rooting for Ras against all the privateers and profiteers who want to turn our public schools into McDonalds and Burger Kings.Buddy Hnoreply@blogger.com