Herbert Lee was an American civil rights activist remembered as a proponent of voting rights for African Americans in Mississippi, who had been disenfranchised since 1890. He was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Amite County and sought to enfranchise black Americans by encouraging voter registration.
In 1961, Lee assisted Bob Moses, a field secretary with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), in his efforts to persuade locals to register. His activities were met with threats of reprisal by the white community, and Lee became one of the movement's earliest victims to white violence. On this day in 1961, Lee was murdered by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst (1908 - 1990) in broad daylight at the cotton gin while delivering cotton near Liberty.
Hurst killed Lee with a single shot to the head, but later claimed in court that he was defending himself after Lee attacked him with a tire iron. An all-white jury ruled that the killing was a justifiable homicide. In 1964, civil rights activist Louis Allen was killed after he informed federal investigators that his testimony in the case was forced on threat of violence.
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I really need to turn off Firefox notifications at night this came through at 3am lol
Did you all know the story behind the giants causeway (bunch of natural forming regular hexagons) near the coast near Bushmills in northern ireland? Crazy shit.
Some ancient Irish giant decided to build a road to Scotland. You can see Scotland on a clear day from Ireland, believe it or not. So this giant built this road out of all these hexagons and when he got there he saw this absolute unit of a Scottish giant that was like 3 times as big as the irish giant, so he got spooked and ran away. Eventually the irish giant heard the Scottish giant coming down to Ireland on the road he made and he came up with a plan.
He dressed up like a baby and sat in a crib.
The Scottish giant came and saw the giant baby and got freaked out because he thought "damn if that's how big the baby is I dont want to mess with the dad" so he ran back to Scotland and tore up the causeway as he left. I dont think Celtic giants could actually breed, but they were pretty dumb.
dont mean to brag (doing it anyway) but its awesome not being depressed anymore lol
i was talking about parasite with some friends and my roommate chimed in that he didn't like that movie and thought that it was overrated. so i asked him why he didn't like it and he told me it was "unoriginal". then i asked him what he thought was unoriginal about it, and after getting flustered for a bit told me that he just didn't like the korean language. when i mentioned that that sounded kinda racist, he smugly told me that he didn't like chinese either which made it okay. when i told him that that also seemed racist, he accused me of gaslighting him.
respectability politics is such fucking horseshit. because the thing is that racist, homophobic, transphobic ect shit always IS allowed in 'polite respectable' discourse so long as it's phrased in a polite way, while calling somebody out for being a racist homophobic transphobic piece of shit is too far? fuck that
I mean I would want to date a communist but I have a clear bias lol
For sure. My partner is not like a committed communist, but she’s anticapitalist and generally agrees with my rants so it works
you need to hang out with cooler people if it doesn't
online leftist who like podcasts and urbanism when they finally see the issue that somebody is having
:farquaad-point:Sometimes I fantasize about living one year of the life of a slightly spoiled cat in a loving home.
One good year of eating, sleeping, purring, zooming, kneading, loafing, being adored and receiving :headpat:s, and not worrying about the shit I worry about as a human?
Would be kinda nice ngl :meow-tankie:
Took a nighttime stroll earlier on the campsite, the stars are so much brighter out here. I think I saw Orion. I even think I could make out the Milky Way band.
It was all so beautiful. :china-stars:
How does anyone have screenshots of over 200 notifications, am I the only one who goes through each one because I can't stand having notifications sitting there? :stalin-stressed:
Day 87 of my menstrual cycle :sadness-abysmal: I'm not pregnant my body just does this like every third period I have
