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Wizards Anonymous

What made #GenghisKhan successful was ending the #genetics of those who were #honest about not believing in him as #leader, destroying #lives / #livelihoods, stealing their #wealth / #value, making #slaves but allowing #Freedom of #Religion, #RuleOfLaw, and #Democracy in the lower ranks. The failure of #Mongolia was due to the higher ranks being chosen through #loyalty and #family / #nepotism, and not enforcing #law on those higher ranks. Sound familiar?
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nomotime

#WestVirginia Couple #Sentenced to 375 Years Collectively for Forcing Black Children to Work 'as #Slaves'

Deputies broke into a shed on the property, where they found a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old locked inside a 20-by-14-foot room. The children had no way of getting out on their own, no running water, no bathrooms and had been denied hygienic care, the sheriff's office said.

usatoday.com/story/news/nation

USA TODAY · Couple sentenced to 375 years collectively for forcing Black children to work 'as slaves'By , USA TODAY
#wypipo#Slavery#BlackMastodon
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Led By Fools

Actively repeating history. And Fox News was applauding this.

There is absolutely no reason to trust US statements in any way, not even head counts. If anything the working assumption should be that, unless and until otherwise identified, they are all US citizens guilty of no crime. This situation is reprehensible regardless of their actual nationalities, and compounded by the regimes actions in court we shouldn't at all dismiss the possibility that the US has gleefully deported it's own citizens, and sold them into slavery

time.com/7269604/el-salvador-p

From mstdn.social/@mcnado/114212025

Time · What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedBy Philip Holsinger
#ICE#CBP#DHS
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jon zellweger

pixelfed.social/p/jnzllwgr/8... . . . . #percevaleverett #james #nationalbookaward #slavery #slaves #adventure #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #ex_libris_jz

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Pixelfedjon zellweger (@jnzllwgr@pixelfed.social)This was a hot book, but I think I have a different definition of what should qualify for National Book Awards. Call me an unsubtle mind, but this was nothing earth-shattering. Everett’s conceit is that this is story of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, point of view. Roughly the first third/half of the book sticks closely to the Twain plot. Then begins to deviate significantly, even warping the timing of the events by decades. Why parallel Twain’s story at all? Having come finished re-reading Twain’s novel(s), these deviations ended up being a distraction rather than some response/evolution from it. Specifically, the ending of Huck Finn is so problematic (does Huck really see Jim as human, as an equal? It’s seriously debatable), I was hoping that Everett would address that head on. But the deviations never return to the denoument of the original myth. So, instead, Twain/Huck seems to get off the hook—again. And then James’ journey becomes more radicalized and dark, separate from what I felt was an unequal friendship of convenience. Was this an anti-hero trope? The concept that slaves had developed a vernacular to speak to their white masters for the purposes of survival is fantastical, but also intriguing. And the author uses that meaningfully to shift and propel the narrative. There are other events that further put into relief enculturated dehumanization and its moral/ethical emptiness. But in the end, all hands are bloody. As James becomes bolder, I found myself split with satisfaction and sadness. Perhaps the books greatest strength, however, is that Everett doesn’t attempt to claim any territory of righteousness. This allows the reader to wrestle these issues find their own conclusions. In all, it seemed like an opportunity to interrogate the legend of the original that leaves me puzzled still why Everett did not leverage that to it maximum . . . . #percevaleverett #james #nationalbookaward #slavery #adventure #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #ex_libris_jz
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jon zellweger

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Pixelfedjon zellweger (@jnzllwgr@pixelfed.social)This was a hot book, but I think I have a different definition of what should qualify for National Book Awards. Call me an unsubtle mind, but this was nothing earth-shattering. Everett’s conceit is that this is story of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, point of view. Roughly the first third/half of the book sticks closely to the Twain plot. Then begins to deviate significantly, even warping the timing of the events by decades. Why parallel Twain’s story at all? Having come finished re-reading Twain’s novel(s), these deviations ended up being a distraction rather than some response/evolution from it. Specifically, the ending of Huck Finn is so problematic (does Huck really see Jim as human, as an equal? It’s seriously debatable), I was hoping that Everett would address that head on. But the deviations never return to the denoument of the original myth. So, instead, Twain/Huck seems to get off the hook—again. And then James’ journey becomes more radicalized and dark, separate from what I felt was an unequal friendship of convenience. Was this an anti-hero trope? The concept that slaves had developed a vernacular to speak to their white masters for the purposes of survival is fantastical, but also intriguing. And the author uses that meaningfully to shift and propel the narrative. There are other events that further put into relief enculturated dehumanization and its moral/ethical emptiness. But in the end, all hands are bloody. As James becomes bolder, I found myself split with satisfaction and sadness. Perhaps the books greatest strength, however, is that Everett doesn’t attempt to claim any territory of righteousness. This allows the reader to wrestle these issues find their own conclusions. In all, it seemed like an opportunity to interrogate the legend of the original that leaves me puzzled still why Everett did not leverage that to it maximum . . . . #percevaleverett #james #nationalbookaward #slavery #adventure #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #ex_libris_jz
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Preston MacDougall

Middle #Tennessee State #University #histodons assist the #AfricanAmerican community in #Murfreesboro preserve the #history of the Cemetery School in a museum. The segregated school was created for the #education of children of former #slaves who were hired to bury #Union Army casualties, including those killed during the #CivilWar Battle of Stones River that occurred nearby.

mainstreetmediatn.com/articles

Main Street Media of Tennessee - · MTSU helps Cemetery School take on new role as Black museum - Main Street Media of TennesseeMiddle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation is working with alumnus and retired administrator Vincent Windrow and the Friends of Cemetery School in Murfreesboro to help preserve one of the state’s remaining Black schools. “There so few surviving examples of segregated schools built in the rural South. At one time there were thousands of them. Rutherford County has one <a href="https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/murfreesboropost/mtsu-helps-cemetery-school-take-on-new-role-as-black-museum/">[…]</a>
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Georgiann Baldino

March 11, 1861 - A Confederate Convention was held in Montgomery, Alabama, where a new constitution was adopted. "Article IV Section 2: The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their #slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."
kentstateuniversitypress.com/2

Regulations of the Confederate Army, Photo taken in 2017 at the Tunnel Hill Museum, Georgia
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