In honor of the week that’s the literal anniversary of the art form: its ongoing necessity, in terms of being both able and willing to tell what *really* happened -- as opposed to the Floridized form when they’re feeding propaganda to schoolkids in the form of a literal cartoonized (and lying!!) Frederick Douglass impersonation -- remains its ongoing relevance
So there’s ^^ the propaganda, and here (for those with the
time and the spoons) is some actual history
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
For good or ill, what happens in the Bronx –
or alternatively, in Florida – doesn’t just stay in the BX or in Florida
Sesame Street is in NYC, bbs
I have a lot of classic favorites but I am gonna have to include Gina Yashere in my new ones as she is both wise and hilarious
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