SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS
From a sign during the Women’s Marches on Jan. 21, 2017. SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS
Racism
Your Day-One Guide to President The Toupeed Fucktrumpet’s Conflicts of Interest
Mother Jones (I use the Firefox add-on “Some Rich Asshole” which translates the word T R U M P into the “The Toupeed Fucktrumpet”, among a few other choice epithets. Below is what this add-on did to a Mother Jones article about his conflicts of interest. I’ve placed the transpositions in ITALICS. The Some Rich … [Read more…]
Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge
Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge JOHN ROGERS AND JOCELYN GECKER ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 20, 2017, 9:53AM LOS ANGELES — Thousands of protesters formed a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday while thousands more marched through a driving rainstorm in Los Angeles as a state that … [Read more…]
Leon Botstein on Racism, December 2016
Leon Botstein – President of Bard College Quote from: The Washington Post In 2016, the symbolic and significant progress among citizens of color plus real and growing inequality among whites has proven an explosive combination. Because the blame is misdirected and the real causes of their economic struggles so misunderstood, a man like [President-elect Donald] … [Read more…]
Captain Jack, the celebrated Modoc chief 1873
CAPTAIN JACK`S GENEALOGY The Son of an Old Kentucky Filibuster. [From the Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman.] It is at this time currently reported in this community, and by many believed, that Captain Jack, the celebrated Modoc chief, is the son of Captain Jack Chambers, a native and formerly well-known citizen of the western part of this … [Read more…]
The Aquia Creek Riot.
Sacramento Union, Aug 23, 1865 Negro Plot Suppressed. New York, August 5th, 1865 The Post’s Washington special says : The National Intelligencer has a statement that a plot was discov- ered among a large number of negro workmen at Aquia Creek to assassinate the white laborers on the railroad there. A company of soldiers arrested … [Read more…]
Sand Creek
Daily Alta California, 12 January, 1865 Gambling for a Grave.— The best thing told of late illustrative of the “ruling passion” being strong in life or death, is that gotten up on the detail of men sent out to dig the graves for the soldiers killed in the Indian fight on Sand Creek. ” The … [Read more…]
Film of the Jeffries – Johnson Prize Fight, July 4, 1910
MAYOR BARS PICTURES OF FIGHT San Francisco Call, July 7, 1910 Mayor Declares Exhibition to Be Just as Unlawful as Battle Itself Movement Against Films Assumes National Proportions, but Trust Smiles Motion Films Can Not Be Displayed in City, is Declaration of McCarthy BOARD OF CENSORS IN FAVOR OF EXCLUSION Nationwide Movement – May Wreck … [Read more…]
Farm Labor Rally – 1910 –
MACKENZIE COMES IN FOR SCORCHING Speakers Condemn Commissioners’ Report on Japanese Immigration Demand Is Made That All Orientals Be Excluded From California San Francisco Call – July 6, 1910 Edited by O. M. BOYLE The meeting last night in the Auditorium of the building trades council to protest against the alleged laxity of immigration Commissioner … [Read more…]
Floods in San Luis Obispo, November 1885
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. Heavy Losses by Recent Floods in San Luis Obispo. [Special Correspondence of the Alta.] San Luis Obispo, November 23d.— The evening of the 15th inst., one of the worst storms that ever visited our county set in. It wrought more devastation and ruin than the county can recover from in months. The rain … [Read more…]