Activist and writer Ida B. Wells-Barnett first became prominent in the 1890s because she brought international attention to the lynching of African Americans in the South. Wells was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862. At the age of sixteen, she became primary caregiver to her six brothers and sisters, when both of her parents succumbed to yellow fever. After completing her studies at Rust College, where her father had sat on the board of trustees before his death, Wells divided her time between caring for her siblings and teaching school. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee in the 1880s.
Wells first began protesting the treatment of black Southerners on a train ride between Memphis and her job at a rural school; the conductor told her that she must move to the train’s smoking car. Wells refused, arguing that she had purchased a first-class ticket. The conductor and other passengers then physically removed her from the train. Wells returned to Memphis, hired a lawyer, and sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. The court decided in her favor, awarding Wells $500. The railroad company appealed, and in 1887, the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversed the previous decision and ordered Wells to pay court fees. Using the pseudonym “Iola,” Wells began to write editorials in black newspapers that challenged Jim Crow laws in the South. She bought a share of a Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech and Headlight, and used it to further the cause of African American civil rights.
After the lynching of three of her friends in 1892, Wells became one of the nation’s most vocal anti-lynching activists. Calvin McDowell, Thomas Moss, and Henry Stewart owned the People’s Grocery in Memphis, but their economic success angered the white owners of a store across the street. On March 9, a group of white men gathered to confront McDowell, Moss, and Stewart. During the ensuing scuffle, several of the white men received injuries, and authorities arrested the three black business owners. A white mob subsequently broke into the jail, captured McDowell, Moss, and Stewart, and lynched them.
Incensed by the murder of her friends, Wells launched an extensive investigation of lynching. In 1892, she published a pamphlet, “Southern Horrors,” which detailed her findings. Through her lectures and books such as A Red Record (1895), Wells countered the “rape myth” used by lynch mobs to justify the murder of African Americans. Through her research she found that lynch victims had challenged white authority or had successfully competed with whites in business or politics. As a result of her outspokenness, a mob destroyed the offices of the Free Speech and threatened to kill Wells. She fled Memphis determined to continue her campaign to raise awareness of southern lynching. Wells took her movement to England, and established the British Anti-Lynching Society in 1894. She returned to the U.S. and settled in Chicago, Illinois, where she married attorney and newspaper editor Ferdinand L. Barnett in 1895.
Wells-Barnett also worked to advance other political causes. She protested the exclusion of African Americans from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and three years later, she helped launch the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). In 1909, Wells was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells was also active in the women's suffrage movement, however her unrelenting advocacy for racial justice clashed with contemporary, predominantly white suffrage organizations.
Ida Wells-Barnett died in Chicago in 1931 at the age of 69.
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I fucking love summer
I love not being able to leave the house because it's 35°C outside. I love being sweaty and uncomfortable for 4 months every year. This is epic
Friendship ended with summer, now autumn is my best friend
The weather here has been shit, just overcast and gloomy, but at least it's nice to see buggs
A lot of cancer stuff
It occurs to me that I disappeared for months after posting a lot about my nephew who had a brain tumor, so some people might like an update. He's doing really well! We just celebrated his 2nd birthday a few months ago, so that's a milestone. There were concerns that the radiation treatment could cause permanent damage, since he's a baby and the tumor was in his brain, but so far, it seems like he won't have side effects. He was delayed in walking and talking since he had a giant tumor putting pressure on his brain, but therapy is going well and he's making good progress. His scans have been good, so everything seems fine for now. There's a pretty high chance that a new tumor will form someday, but now he'll be monitored so hopefully it'll be caught early and he'll be OK. All we can do is wait and see. But things are looking good for him so far.
I went offline because just a few months after my nephew's diagnosis, my aunt got diagnosed with breast cancer. Then just a couple weeks later, my uncle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. So I pretty much went into survival mode, then the genocide in Palestine started and I could not fucking deal with thinking about all that human suffering. Bombing hospitals in particular hit really close to home. We had so many wonderful people working so hard to save the lives of my loved ones, and I couldn't stop thinking about what if people were BOMBING THE HOSPITAL.
So I went extremely no news
for a while. Like, I didn't even hear about Kissinger dying until days after.
My nephew is doing well, my aunt got a double mastectomy and her prognosis I'd good, but unfortunately my uncle went pretty quickly. He died several months ago, but he was suffering pretty badly and it's probably a mercy that it was relatively quick.
Anyway, that's the update on me, if anyone was curious.
Oh boy I have seven days off, can't wait to waste another week thinking about going places and then not going
My mom made the NICEST, most fucking DELICIOUS roast spuds I've ever had in my life for dinner. Perfect amount of alt and oil, crispy on the outside without being burner, soft on the inside without being mushy... Shit was heavenly. Ambrosia, food of the gods.
I figured out how to make good air fryer fries and that's literally tripled my consumption of potatoes.
Crispy spuds do be good.
air fryer fries are a game changer
whenever we can finally get a new oven i want the dumbest, simplest model that also has a convection fan in it
Potatoes are truly incredible. So healthy, so versatile, and when prepared right, so delicious.
You can live a mostly healthy life eating nothing but potato. Truly the best food, even beans require you to have a variety of beans. Potato is willing to be the one.
The type of potato makes a big difference in how they bake. My current favorite to bake is "purple sapphire" The outside gets a nice crispy shell while the inside stays fluffy. (but they are brutal when overdone) The flavor profile is really good too, not just starchy boring. That they are really purple is just a bonus.
You can tell when some chud posting here is a boomer or a 4chan nazi by how they react to PPB. If it's a boomer, they'll be all disgusted while trying to feign "why aren't you civil"? If it's a 4chan nazi, they'll just ignore it, because they think that's overall pretty tame.
It really is hilarious that chuds don't realize how fucking obvious they are.
Saw on reddit earlier a "lifelong dem" complaining about how he voted for Clinton and bernie but he couldn't keep supporting Biden.
The first reason he gave for not supporting Biden anymore was that he "went all in on the woke agenda"
How do you do, fellow not chuds?
Me in real life: "I have morals and empathy"
Me in civ: "This promotion can unlock the ability to 'enslave criminals?'"
me in vikky 3:
africa do be having rubber
although now you can do shenanigans with investment, i need to try moral run (probably will get big mad when commies expropriate my industries)
Civ is pretty much imperialism the game, so it makes sense we become the barbarians as we play. On barbarians, it's always made me cringe how these guys are just evil assholes you gotta kill and that's all there is to it.
I'll always choose communism when I get to ideologies though, that makes me feel based as I sit upon my throne in a higher dimension while i dictate the lives of everyone in my civ
The Minecraft mod Tinker's Construct offers this choice. The mod's purpose is a smeltery, which one uses to pour molten metal into casts to make tool parts. It's a lot of fun. It's not like other tech mods that are major time sinks. Smeltery bricks are just sand, gravel, and clay - then fire the smeltery bricks in a regular furnace. And the smeltery is fueled by regular lava. Easy to get into, lots of tool customizing possible, not a time sink at all.
But if mobs are pushed into the smeltery and there's molten metal in it, it will melt those mobs down. Most mobs will give liquid blood. Horses give glue. But villagers? They give you molten emerald which you can pour into a cast to get a regular vanilla emerald. And it can be automated.
So you have a choice. Be moral, or build a villager breeding setup that conveyor-belts villagers into free unlimited emeralds.
Minecraft has a lot of mob enslavement stuff even in vanilla which I doubt was intentional?
It works by manipulating various spawn rules. Like at one point each block had a light level between 1 and 14. If the light was seven or below that block could spawn monsters. So you create a box that's dark inside, put some traps at the bottom, and it will continually spawn monsters and kill them. Then you can use some water to sweep all the drops to a collection ppoint. It's one of a great many fairly complex machines that were built entirely within the game rules.
Yeah I know =) back in my day we just stuck torches all over monster spawners, lol. Seen the spawner -> death -> water sweep trick before, wild stuff.
now that i have a real boy job, thinking about potential vacations. Cuba has obviously been on the bucket list forever but might do something a bit less complicated first (ameriKKKan here). mb Vietnam?
Cuba and Bolivia have always been dream destinations for me, although I imagine China and Vietnam would be easier to visit
im thinkin Cuba will be next, but i havent been out of the country in years and years so want to start w/ something w/ fewer barriers and i've heard pretty much nothing but good things about Vietnam. think Cuba is easy enough if ur not USian though? my understanding is its a pretty popular tourist destination for other imperial core countries.
If you visit Cuba as non-USian then you can’t get a US visa for some time. Idk how it works for US citizens. Also you can’t transfer money to Cuba from most EU banks because Cuba is on the ‘terrorist’ list so making the arrangements can still be quite tricky even in Europe. Not a lot of Europeans visit nowadays because of the hurdles.
travelling to Cuba is not something I've looked into but I know a bunch of my comrades did it a couple of years ago with relative ease, coming from Ireland. The carribbean is always an expensive holiday for most people in Europe so not many people have travelled to the region that i know of. my sister is visiting vietnam soon though and apparently it is both very cheap and relatively easy to travel to. up to you, personally i would prioritise Cuba but thats my preference, I speak Spanish and would get in easier than USians, but Vietnam has fewer barriers for Yanks. plus if youre visiting vietnam you could also travel to china or laos if you have time
Is it really that hard for a Yankee to fly to Cuba? I thought you just couldn't fly direct.
I'm not entirely sure tbh! if it's as simple as having to do a layover in mexico then yeah that's really not bad at all
Finally did what most managers do. I did absolutely nothing all day. Not even meetings.
Just doing a deep dive on the requirements to develop actionable items
A friend is suddenly dead. I don't think any of us know what to do. I've been through this once, but for a close friend he hasn't since his brother killed himself when we were teenagers. It's all awful. I don't why I'm writing this except it's weirdly simple...
I'll never forget where I was when I found out that President Biden had covid: shitting
wait i think same, pooped this evening and that's generally when i go on twitter and