This essay is so beautifully written and so important to read. Thank you for keeping her vision, example, and voice alive. If I were still teaching, I would teach this essay everyday for week. Then, I would teach it for another week.
Thank you for this incandescent biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. I knew about her helping to register people to vote, but I didn't know about her backstory. It's hard (and yet easy) to believe that she and Tim Scott lived in the same world...
I fear for the African American community, as well as all the communities of color. The incoming supremacists are "othering" all who don't fit the white, misogynistic ideal. My mixed race friends are fearful of the violation of social norms by the White House. We all need to hear Fannie Lou Hamer's name, and her words, daily.
Thank you for this, Stephen. Well done, as always. 💔
O/T, sorry —I hope it’s ok if I post this GoFundMe here. This is a fundraiser that’s been set up to help former MPD police officer Michael Fanone, who nearly lost his life on 1/6/21 and has been struggling financially ever since he resigned from the force in late 2021. MAGAts are making his life more miserable than ever these days, so please help out if you can! Thanks.
reading the horrifying account of Fannie Lou Hamer's beating and her resulting disfigurement, I had to keep checking the date and seeing it was 1963 not 1863.
Fannie Lou Hamer is an American hero, who is sadly ignored in the history books. Also sad - Scott is one of my senators, and along with the other, Graham, is a disgrace, as are all who support trump. If not for them, he would have NEVER been elected in the first place, and certainly not the second time.
As for millions watching the inauguration, I have read that the ratings were much lower than those for Biden's. Being vindictive, I hope that all of the those MSM outlets rolling over for trump, get wiped out for surrendering to him, rather than opposing him and speaking truth to power.
Our neighbors are taken with a madness. It is the madness of folly. One they have given into willingly. Nevertheless, they are captured by it.
They cannot be appeased. Folly never can be. It insists that day is night, that wrong is right, that slavery is freedom, and demands that you not only agree, but praise them for their right thinking.
Folly cannot be reasoned with. You cannot find common ground by agreeing that there might be clouds in the sky so it could be night or day.
Folly can only be opposed. And it must be opposed and crushed utterly and irredeemably, or it will return again doubly determined to crush reason, compassion, and empathy and force people to agree with it on pains of death.
An excellent history lesson! I would love to understand how to expand it to the TikTok generation, who seem to have the attention span of a fruit fly. How does one impress the importance of individual human rights to those who don't understand (or even know about) the blood and sweat and deaths that it took to first secure them? And how does someone like Tim Scott, who surely does know the history, convince himself to ignore it?
Scott should've learned the maxim from TabithaSpeaksPolitics: "Tokens get spent."
At some point I got to see the live video of Scott's "I sure love YOU." That was...a visceral sort of pain. It really hurt seeing that.
I mean hell, Scott actually IS more qualified than so many of the useless hacks on President Klan Robe's shit list. And that's by design of course...the plan is to destroy these agencies. But he didn't even get consideration.
This essay is so beautifully written and so important to read. Thank you for keeping her vision, example, and voice alive. If I were still teaching, I would teach this essay everyday for week. Then, I would teach it for another week.
Trump could hand Scott a truncheon and then Scott would beat whoever Trump told him to.
We need a lot of things, but one of them wasn't Donald Trump.
Thank you for this incandescent biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. I knew about her helping to register people to vote, but I didn't know about her backstory. It's hard (and yet easy) to believe that she and Tim Scott lived in the same world...
Oh to be as courageous as Hamer. We're gonna need some people with "sand" as I always like to say. Not many around anymore.
Thank you for this timely reminder.
I fear for the African American community, as well as all the communities of color. The incoming supremacists are "othering" all who don't fit the white, misogynistic ideal. My mixed race friends are fearful of the violation of social norms by the White House. We all need to hear Fannie Lou Hamer's name, and her words, daily.
Thank you for this, Stephen. Well done, as always. 💔
O/T, sorry —I hope it’s ok if I post this GoFundMe here. This is a fundraiser that’s been set up to help former MPD police officer Michael Fanone, who nearly lost his life on 1/6/21 and has been struggling financially ever since he resigned from the force in late 2021. MAGAts are making his life more miserable than ever these days, so please help out if you can! Thanks.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/show-your-support-for-michael-fanone
reading the horrifying account of Fannie Lou Hamer's beating and her resulting disfigurement, I had to keep checking the date and seeing it was 1963 not 1863.
Thank you for this history of Fannie Lou Hamer. Scott should keep her words outta his mouth.
Fannie Lou Hamer is an American hero, who is sadly ignored in the history books. Also sad - Scott is one of my senators, and along with the other, Graham, is a disgrace, as are all who support trump. If not for them, he would have NEVER been elected in the first place, and certainly not the second time.
As for millions watching the inauguration, I have read that the ratings were much lower than those for Biden's. Being vindictive, I hope that all of the those MSM outlets rolling over for trump, get wiped out for surrendering to him, rather than opposing him and speaking truth to power.
Our neighbors are taken with a madness. It is the madness of folly. One they have given into willingly. Nevertheless, they are captured by it.
They cannot be appeased. Folly never can be. It insists that day is night, that wrong is right, that slavery is freedom, and demands that you not only agree, but praise them for their right thinking.
Folly cannot be reasoned with. You cannot find common ground by agreeing that there might be clouds in the sky so it could be night or day.
Folly can only be opposed. And it must be opposed and crushed utterly and irredeemably, or it will return again doubly determined to crush reason, compassion, and empathy and force people to agree with it on pains of death.
Or paraphrasing Falcon (Anthony Mackie) in The Winter Soldier:
'I don't think he's the kind you save. He's the kind you stop.'
An excellent history lesson! I would love to understand how to expand it to the TikTok generation, who seem to have the attention span of a fruit fly. How does one impress the importance of individual human rights to those who don't understand (or even know about) the blood and sweat and deaths that it took to first secure them? And how does someone like Tim Scott, who surely does know the history, convince himself to ignore it?
Wow.
I wish he’d wake up and realize!!!
Excellent reminders and information. Yes, Tim Scott deserves all the accolades you have for him here. ;)
Scott should've learned the maxim from TabithaSpeaksPolitics: "Tokens get spent."
At some point I got to see the live video of Scott's "I sure love YOU." That was...a visceral sort of pain. It really hurt seeing that.
I mean hell, Scott actually IS more qualified than so many of the useless hacks on President Klan Robe's shit list. And that's by design of course...the plan is to destroy these agencies. But he didn't even get consideration.
Scott doesn't get that TFG just never saw any value in him beyond a black face to make it look like he wasn't racist, simply by association.
Scott is a shameful disgrace and a groveling greedy coward. Fits perfectly in the Trump Party. RESIST!!!