#Southern

I've been lucky to be able to read and write a bunch these past few weeks. I'm going to thread a few things that posted this week, in hopefully less
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86 years ago today, the Chatham Coloured All Stars and Penetanguishene Rangers played the 3rd game of their Bof3 final for the OBA Intermediate B championship.1/n The weather was typical
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I’m teaching a class on US racial views & bell hooks is such a massive lament knowing that 90+% of our 2020 race tensions wouldn’t exist had white Christian conservatives
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Just pointing this out bc I’ve seen a trend happening on my fb wall.I’ve been stopped before by police. Especially living in SB County, in an area where guys around
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Some analysis on the big risks and battles ahead for Merkel and Macron over the historic Franco-German accord on a pandemic recovery fund The 500bn fund is far from being
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@NichollsMaegan *peaceful protest are starting because we are fed up, after 500+ years of oppression you think we’d start to see change right? These peaceful protest become violent police do.
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WHO SAYS ASYNCH IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS??We just did a Mock National Assembly - my students all showed up. They had THE BEST TIME. Several dressed up. We had
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What is America fighting for in Afghanistan? After a two year investigation, @B_Margaux and I uncovered an illegal mining corruption ring involving an American military contractor, the President of Afghanistan,
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@adamhousley There is one other weird thing about this that points to an accident at a lab. The bats that this virus came from and pangolins do not live in
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If you’re wondering why people are calling for today, Juneteenth, to be a national holiday... you might only know part 1 of the “how slavery ended in America” story.When white
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Since no one is following me on Twitter anyway, hardly, I am gonna say that I think it is a mistake to cancel the Bailey Roth biography based on allegations
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Reading about Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) this morning. She had these words for "intelligent white southerners" around 1915 --  “Ask your librarian for books about blacks and praise your minister for
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Airport Run: Long before dawn I drove to rural Minnesota to pickup up a 51 year old man and take him to the airport. A life long alcoholic who called
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Listen, I’m not doing another lockdown. Especially when southern parts of the country with higher Covid rates are allowed to crack on. The North isn’t a fucking experiment. You’ve taken
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I want to talk to white people for a second.You have been lied to. You have been told that America is a place founded on freedom, where everyone has an
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The folk etymology of 馒头(steamed bun) is an interesting illustration of cultural identity.Mantou comes frm Turkic, just as the filled dumpling itself is probably from Central Asia. There are cognates
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