70sEraVet
70sEraVet's JournalI want to take back my comments on an earlier post in this forum
A couple of weeks ago, DU member GP6971 was asking about anyone's experiences with Wreaths Across America.
See -- democraticunderground.com/117911848
Without really having any experience to relate, I nonetheless proceeded to announce my opinions, which were negative.
But, as of today, I HAVE had some experience with Wreaths Across America, and I owe both GP6971 and Wreaths Across America my humblest apologies.
I was invited to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at an historic African American cemetery in Clarksville, Tennessee. I've worked with, and been a member of, the organization that has been revitalizing that cemetery, which is the resting place for at least 33 veterans, most of whom were US Colored Troops of the Civil War. The cemetery had served the local black community from 1817-1958.
In the South, it seems that the graves of black veterans, particularly US Colored Troops of the Civil War, were not treated with any form of respect for many years. In fact, many African American cemeteries were allowed to fall into a state of neglect, some falling victim to vandalism.
I was proud to participate in paying honor to those veterans today. And the organization of Wreaths Across America started that annual tradition.
Be disruptive! What queer history tells us about confronting Trump
The ascendency of Donald Trump to his second presidency is fraught with anxiety and fear for many Americans, particularly gay Americans. Books with queer themes are already being removed from school and public libraries. Trans people are being denied the right to use bathrooms or be on sports teams that align with their gender. Trans medical care is under attack in many states. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that may help LGBTQ+ people as well as others are being eliminated. Justice Clarence Thomas has broached “revisiting” the supreme court decisions that legalized same-sex marriage.
Many queer activists – panicked, tenacious, resolute – are asking what we can do in the face of these attacks that seek to dismantle basic rights and access that were presumed permanent. The enormity and consequentiality of this battle feels like being swept heedlessly into uncharted waters. We are rummaging through US history to find precedents for why Trump won and how to confront the damage he may cause.
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The LGBTQ+ community has been here before.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/26/be-disruptive-what-queer-history-tells-us-about-confronting-trump
A lesson on things to come - deadly measles outbreak in Samoa and RFK Jr.
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Now, five years on from an epidemic that has traumatised a generation, Samoan health officials are among those sounding alarm over the nomination of Kennedy as US health secretary.
“We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means. It means more platforms for anti-vaxxers and less funding for vaccines and health programmes,” Aiono Prof Alec Ekeroma, Samoa’s director general of health, told the Guardian.
“It must be treated as a threat to our health security.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/rfk-jr-samoa-visit-measles-outbreak-vaccines
I saw this on a Facebook post, and thought it was perfect:
We have to step up now and do what we can to help people who will be negatively impacted by this decision.
I know that others have been posting on DU today, making the same suggestion. But I thought this was just worded perfectly.
I'm just deleting my post -- enough jokes about golfing stories.
"Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish...."
A 20-year genetic investigation of the remains of Christopher Columbus has turned conventional historical wisdom on its head by concluding that the explorer whose voyage to the New World changed the course of global history may have been a Spanish Jew rather than a son of Genoa.
The claim raises the intriguing prospect that the man who played a central part in the creation of Spain’s mighty empire hailed from the very community that his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, expelled from their kingdom in the same year Columbus reached the Americas.
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José Antonio Lorente, a forensic medical expert at the University of Granada who has led the research, said his analysis had revealed that Columbus’s DNA was “compatible” with a Jewish origin.
“We have very partial, but sufficient, DNA from Christopher Columbus,” he said. “We have DNA from his son Fernando Colón, and in both the Y [male] chromosome and mitochondrial DNA [transmitted by the mother] of Fernando there are traces compatible with a Jewish origin.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/13/christopher-columbus-was-spanish-and-jewish-documentary-reveals
Quite well pissed at American Legion leadership right now
I got an email today from the National Headquarters, their newsletter. One of the big announcements was "NEC (National Executive Committee) ADOPTS NEW IMMIGRATION REFORM RESOLUTION"!
The National Executive Committee of The American Legion passed a resolution on immigration reform Wednesday, Oct. 9, during the annual Fall Meetings in Indianapolis that supersedes and rescinds four resolutions.
Resolution No. 10: Immigration Reform, resolved clause states, “That The American Legion opposes federal investment in sanctuary cities and other programs that may undermine the rule of law and incentivize illegal residency;
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/security/2024/october/nec-adopts-new-immigration-reform-resolution
So, less than a month before this Presidential election, the American Legion leadership is calling for the reinstatement of the Executive Order that Trump issued in 2017, cutting off federal funds going to any 'sanctuary cities', an Executive Order that Biden rescinded as soon as he came in office!
Kind of a back-room endorsement?
I find myself being a bit fascinated watching blacks at tsf's rallies.
Yesterday, I saw a brief clip of his rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania. And I noticed that when he started talking about "Barak HUSSEIN Obama", the two black guys on the stage behind him WALKED OUT!
What do you think went through their minds?
" They're not paying me enough for THIS!"??
Sorry, I cant find the short clip. All I can do, is post this video and ask you to go to the 16:30 mark.
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