Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, May 29, 2014

A Hard Book to Read

"Southern Horrors" by Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

The book is 120 years old, which is why it's available from Project Gutenberg. It is about lynch law.

If you like to think of this nation as an honorable place, it will rock your perceptions. Even if you think you know about lynchings and massacres by white mobs, this book will stun you with the breadth and depravity of the practice.

5 comments:

Old NFO said...

Nope, wasn't pretty at all. Lots of Reconstructionists were in the middle of that mess.

Comrade Misfit said...

I think what now would be called "the Bitter Dead-Enders" of the time had a lot to do with it.

Joe said...

A grim document, and hard to face up to. But I did laugh out loud at this indignity heaped upon the Afro-Americans: "The race regardless of advancement is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars."

Anonymous said...

more blacks were lynched in the north.lok up the draft riots in new York city.and they burned a black orphanage with 300 black kids in it and there was abunch burned at the stake in the 1740s.there were more whites lynched in the south than there were blacks so study a little history your friend truckwilkins

Comrade Misfit said...

were more whites lynched in the south than there were blacks

I am afraid that you are in error. The ratio of Black folk lynched over whites in the South ranged from 4 to 1 in Virginia and Arkansas to 30 to 1 in South Carolina.