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Delano

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  1. I think another issue is llack of social connections. We had parirs and birthday parties at home and we visited other relatives and friends at home. Now lots of birthdays both adult and children don't take place at home.
  2. Women have historically been better at maintaining social connections than men Who liberated more slaves than Harriet Tubman. Who did Huey Newtown put in charge when he went to prison .Rosa Parks was the face of the movement. I would also say that women are more involved in church than men. I heard that if you want to improve a society give the money to women. Since they'll make sure the kids eat and get educated.
  3. I saw her live at the Sydney Opera House. She did something I had never seen. She had different members of the orchestra sing a line. It was amazing. Blue Lights in the Basement. The Closer I get to you was the slow jam when I was a kid.
  4. I don't think the made the rent bigger. They just created ore preferred bleacher seats
  5. If we go back to the start the only people who could vote were white male Protestant land owners
  6. The above is a quote from Kelly Carter Jackson's book, We Refuse A Forceful History Of Black Resistance
  7. She is in high school she couldn't afford it she isn't dating
  8. It reminded me Tony's Harding and Nancy Kerrigan although they weren't high school athletes
  9. No there are few bits since bits don't know how to answer questions. Although a few people joined just to promote their business or isy something unrelated to Astrology It's not a business page
  10. The coach and her parents apologised but she didn't. Also the fact that she didn't stop makes it look intentional. This was in my YouTube feed.
  11. I think that just the way of it. I have a FB group of 850 people. Probably about 10 people respond with likes. No that I post gets 10 likes but there are ten people that like a post. I think some years back occasionally a post would get five or six people interacting. For myself I have a bit if fatigue. I used to be online for hours. Now it's minutes. I also have less tolerance for arguments. Upn reflection I talk less overall. Since quite often it seems pointless or of little value
  12. April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the federal government paying owners an average of about $300 (equivalent to $9,000 in 2024) for each Although there have been few reparations to the nations involved, one controversial development dates back to the 1800s. In 1833, the British government agreed to pay £20m to slave owners in exchange for the freeing of their slaves — which would equate to billions in the modern day France went further by penalizing Haiti for the revolution that abolished slavery in its former colony St. Domingue. It levied a huge sum on the island, which crippled it in decades of debt. Former slaves were forced to pay indemnities to former slaveowners in exchange for official recognition as the first black independent nation-state in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves were so valuable their owners were compensated by the Government.
  13. If you killed d a slave you end up having to pay. Whereas today there is no compensation. The following is an excerpt from Homicide Justified: The Legality Of Killing Slaves In The United States And The Atlantic World After 1750, the Barbadian slave code made its way to the British colonial mainland. Clause twenty of the Barbadian law gave masters the right to kill a slave who had run away or misbehaved. Killing a slave for any other reason could be punished with a fine. If a third party murdered a slave, he had to pay double to slave’s value, but if the killing was accidental, the master determined the compensation. Barbadian slaves did not possess the right of self-defense, except to defend their masters. Scholars commonly presume the mainland British colonies adopted the Barbadian slave code wholesale, but Fede found that only South Carolina adopted the homicide part of the code. The other colonies incorporated slave killings into the common law of homicide. In theory, killing a slave was equal to killing a free person and would be punished as such. That means a master would be executed for the intentional killing of his slave. In practice, Fede found that the exceptions swallowed the rule. Murders of slaves that occurred in the course of discipline, insurrection, and self-defense were readily accepted and master acquitted for the killings. Few white men were executed for the killing of a slave in the North American British Empire. After independence, states attempted slave law reform, including the homicide laws. The tendency was to equate the murder of a slave with the murder of a free white man, but the practice allowed for so many exceptions that only a few masters were executed for killing their own slaves. Almost all of these men were outcasts in their own communities. Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas each executed one master. Tennessee executed two men who were not masters. As the nation expanded westward, the slave homicide laws of the new states were like those of the old. American slave law proclaimed in the books that slaves were entitled to the same protections as whites, but in practice the law operated to serve the master’s economic interests.
  14. The only time Black Lives Matter to the General Population was during slavery
  15. Being financially illiterate is probably the biggest factor next to systemic inequalities.
  16. I don't know anything about comets. Will have a more I depth read through. This is considered Mundane Astrology, which something I tried when Trump was President. I made a couple of predictions both were wrong but the second the timing was close.
  17. Geri Allen was a member of the M Base collective and the Black Rock Coalition . I was surprised that she also played on some Living Colour tracks
  18. When Kabuya Dances she played this at the Cathedral of John the Divine. It made me start writing poetry. That and the water stain in the wall. They were both evocative
  19. Gerri Allen was also an amazing piano player. And Cassandra Wilson did an album where she put lyrics to Miles Davis' tracks. Ledisi is a oio singer but I reckon she could do Jazz
  20. I also don't consider her a jazz artist. Although that wasn't in the post . It just said music. I have to say on the Jazz side Robert Glasper is amazing. He did a show with a full orchestra on Northern Europe. Also his vocalist Bilal is amazing. The only current female I can think of is H.E.R. vocally Indo like Jazmine Sullivan and Muni Long
  21. I can't remember who said the following. It may have been Greg Tate in reference to Miles Davis, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson or Prince. "Being so dope that the mainstream has to recognise your genius.
  22. Model them off Alicia Keys and it's a possibility. I think she has some elements that are crucial. She's an Aquarian. They are typically nonconformist and aren't swayed by popular opinion. She's is tall, being tall has social advantages. Also her looks aren't distracting. Either being too good looking are the extreme is not a plus. She did something I found interesting. While I felt her appearance was more neutral or leaning toward stylish lesbian. You don't know my name was brilliant combination of themes. Working class woman, sees a customer who is attractive. It has passive longing yet culminates in her asking the diner out Also the tone in the two sections is markedly different. Finally I don't know if the diner was male or female. So it has cross appeal.
  23. I don't know how the rest of the country feels. However those who resigned or dissociated themselves have put their money where their mouth is. I also find it interesting that he both thinks he is capable of being the chairman of Kennedy Centre and that being President isn't a film time job.
  24. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/donald-trump-kennedy-center-00203910
  25. I think the next 10 to 15 years will be large geopolitical changes and mostly likely reversals of fortunes. Details I don't know, nor do I have a way to determine what the changes might be
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