Marveling at our little potted sunflower that HR found …
Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 6/27/22
Author: Neal Saye
The Difficult Truth of 1619 — #5
A blog category examining the difficult truth found in The 1619 Project.
In late August, 1619, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., aboard the English privateer ship White Lion. In Virginia, these Africans were traded in exchange for supplies. Several days later, a second ship (Treasurer) arrived in Virginia with additional enslaved Africans. Both groups had been captured by English privateers from the Spanish slave ship San Juan Bautista. They are the first recorded Africans to arrive in England’s mainland American colonies. hampton.gov
Antebellum Plantations. Such Southern beauty!
But we need Truth in Terminology, Truth in Naming …
PLANTATIONS = FORCED LABOR CAMPS
If Men
Shhh … Silent Sunday 6/26/22
My Saturday Evening Post: 6/25/22 “If I Could”
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Five Friday Happy Bringers 6/24/22
1. Air conditioning! What a blessing.
2. Enjoying Pride month in our humble abode.
3. The ability to read and write.
4. Daughter Emily giving me this old picture she found at a yard sale. It’s special because we had the same one hanging above our fireplace while she was growing up.
5. Having eyes which can embrace truth. Even difficult truth.
May your eyes see a joyful weekend ahead.
“Robert and …” #19
A blog category of pics I’ve taken of HR (Hubby Robert) and … well, just about anything.
Robert and … a weirdly delicious pose.
We were enjoying our specialty brunch donuts at hip restaurant Beetlecat in Atlanta.
I chose the Banana Pudding Donut (wouldn’t you?) and immediately went to work eating it up. Beetlecat is so hip that you order your donut before your entree.
Meanwhile HR, out of focus and in the background (I was enjoying my donut far too much to pay attention to his goings on) had his hands in an awkward position, at least for everyday donut eating.
Robert chose some kind of islandy pineapple-on-top thing.
I suppose he just wanted to show it off a bit.
But I’m not sure. I decided not to ask.
The Difficult Truth of 1619 — #4
A blog category examining the difficult truth found in The 1619 Project.
In late August, 1619, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., aboard the English privateer ship White Lion. In Virginia, these Africans were traded in exchange for supplies. Several days later, a second ship (Treasurer) arrived in Virginia with additional enslaved Africans. Both groups had been captured by English privateers from the Spanish slave ship San Juan Bautista. They are the first recorded Africans to arrive in England’s mainland American colonies. hampton.gov
A few thoughts on the Revolutionary War period in U.S. history.
“The wealthy, educated men who led the revolt against Britain needed to unify the disparate colonists across social class and region. For those leaders, the comparison to slavery constituted a powerful rhetorical tool.” The 1619 Project
George Washington’s words:
“‘The Crisis has arrived when we must assert our rights or submit to every imposition that can be heap’d upon us; till custom and use, will make us as tame & abject slaves, as the Blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway,” Washington warned in an August 1774 letter to his friend and neighbor Bryan Fairfax.
It is important, even imperative, that we stop Disney-fying our “Founding Fathers” and see their darker sides as well, especially those sides which involve enslaving people. Surely we can all agree that darker sides abound in us all.
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