Defiling the name
Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son, Matt, has filed papers in Pennsylvania to change his legal name. It can’t be easy living your life in the shadow of such a hideous and ill-regarded family figure. William Hitler, the man Adolf Hitler called his “loathsome nephew,” changed his surname when he immigrated to the U.S., and today, the Hitler paternal bloodline survives in almost-complete obscurity on Long Island. Josef Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, changed her name to Lana Peters and died in the small Wisconsin town in which she lived only two years ago at the age of 85. Charles Manson's son committed suicide. Meanwhile, Liz Cheney uses her father’s name to run for Senate in Wyoming. So you just never know.---
I’m trying to imagine a scenario playing out in the United States in which a black person kills a white person in self-defense and then doesn’t serve a prison sentence.
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This graph and the accompanying research is enlightening in respect to the shockingly large economic impact of slavery in the antebellum South—and in the establishment of the American empire. "Human capital" dwarfed even industrial capital. The study speaks to the dire and fundamental need for reparations to be made to the descendants of those that were enslaved by the Atlantic Slave Trade. It's an idea that has lied dormant for too long. Failure to follow through on initial promises of reparation led us directly to Jim Crow laws and the forming of terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan.
As proving ancestry is difficult, if not impossible (the U.S. Census does not track descent from slaves), a good solution might be to adopt the one called for by a social movement called the Republic of New Afrika in 1968-- the creation of an independent Black-majority country comprised of what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as some adjacent Black-majority counties in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Florida.
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There are some people out there who seem legitimately pissed that George Clooney won’t get married.
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Tonight, CNN's special "William and Kate Plus One," promoting the pending birth of the couple's anointed son or slightly-less fortunate daughter, declared unashamedly that the Royal Prince and the Duchess of Cambridge have always done it "their way." They chose their own flowers at their wedding, you see, and they honeymooned at the palace of their choosing. But as rebellious couples go, these two aren't exactly Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden. Choosing your own spouse from the full list of global candidates would be rebellious. Marrying a Catholic and abdicating the throne would be rebellious. "Prince" William is just a privileged little snot who doesn't have the stones to renounce his three dollar bill title, and who picked his bride from a validated list when he started prematurely losing his hair.
posted by CM @ 10:59 PM
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