@moonbus saidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
Viola Fletcher, 111. If you don't know who she was, you'd do well to find out. She was the last surviving witness to a vicious massacre.
I was kind of a history nerd in high school, and I never heard of this until college. This is not the kind of cirriculum one finds in a high school that was 99+% white.
Cleo Hearn, the first Black student to receive a college rodeo scholarship & founder of the Cowboys of Color Rodeo, has died at 86. He broke barriers in the arena & beyond — honoring the heritage of the cowboy while opening doors for others. Rest In Power to a legend who made space for generations to follow.
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@rookie54 saidWell, we can still be glad that he was here, turned out the way that he did, and wrote what he wrote.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
and i grieve
I have a book of interviews with Tom Stoppard somewhere among the two or three thousand, which (of course) I haven't read yet.
Perhaps my own unknown mission in life has always involved collecting all of these unread books, and if society does collapse maybe someone will eventually discover this amazing (but probably impractical) library in my little cinderblock house.
