Black History Month

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3 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

And yet.... 

Good one Peefoam. 

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10 hours ago, peenie said:

Historically, Europeans have decimated entire populations across the globe and are likely the worst examples of humans on the planet if you use murder as the only yardstick of their worth. 

They really did, those people were not very nice to people.

Luckily, they are all dead now.

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4 hours ago, MDC said:

Good one Peefoam. 

Still you wake up to 

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19 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

Still you wake up to 

Sure I do Peefoam.  

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Just now, MDC said:

Sure I do Peefoam.  

At least you have a few steaks in the future.

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1 minute ago, Utilit99 said:

At least you have a few steaks in the future.

I like steak.  

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1 minute ago, MDC said:

I like steak.  

Yep. Eat the loved one. Right up your alley.

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Just now, Utilit99 said:

Yep. Eat the loved one. Right up your alley.

You could have said something like “That’s why you married a cow.” That would be unoriginal but at least in keeping with the general theme. Instead you called my wife a steak, which makes no sense.

Are you on the spectrum or something? 

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11 minutes ago, MDC said:

You could have said something like “That’s why you married a cow.” That would be unoriginal but at least in keeping with the general theme. Instead you called my wife a steak, which makes no sense.

Are you on the spectrum or something? 

I never called your wife a steak. Seems like you are now. I won't disagree. You wanna keep going with this in the black history thread?

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So, I’ve been watching Roots this week. Wow. What a powerful miniseries. A few thoughts. My wife, who is younger than me and was born after it came out, asked me if that was the one about slavery. I said not exactly,  it’s more about people that were enslaved. The humanity it brings to it is incredible.  Also, Lou Gossett jr is a great, great actor. Some of the white actors so far, who do not come off good in this, were some of televisions most beloved father figures in other shows around the time. Ed Asner was Lou Grant, Lorne Greene was Ben Cartwright, Ralph Waite was the father on Waltons mountain, and Robert Reed was Mike Brady. Took some guts to play slave owners and abusers.  I’m three episodes in. Instead of some snowflake teacher talking about slavery to kids, they should just make them watch this. College kids too. My kids will be in a few years. I remember watching it every night in 1977, and rooting for the slaves every time. 

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Here is my first installment for Black History Month:

Zelda Wynn Valdes 
(June 28, 1905 - September 26, 2001) was an American fashion designer and costumer. She is the creator of the original Playboy Bunny costume. 
 

She trained as a classical pianist at the Catholic Conservatory of Music. In the early 1920s, Valdes started to work in the tailoring shop of her uncle in White Plains, New York. Around the same time, Valdes began working as a stock girl at a high-end boutique. She eventually worked her way up to selling and making alterations, becoming the shop's first black sales clerk and tailor.

 In 1948, Valdes opened "Zelda Wynn," her design and dressmaking studio, on Broadway (in what is now Washington Heights on Broadway and West 158th Street). Valdes said that her shop was the first black-owned business on Broadway.[

She sold her dresses to movie star Dorothy Dandridge, opera diva Jessye Norman, and singer Gladys Knight. Valdes also dressed the entire bridal party for the 1948 wedding of Marie Ellington, aka Maria Cole and Nat King Cole. Additional celebrity clients included Josephine Baker, Mae West, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Marian Anderson.

Her role in glamorizing women caught the attention of Playboy's Hugh Hefner who commissioned Zelda to design bunny costumes for the Playboy Playmates, an idea suggested by Victor Lownes. She created the original Playboy Bunny costume, which was presented at the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago, IL on February 29, 1960. It was also the first commercial uniform to be registered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

In 1970, Arthur Mitchell asked Valdes to design costumes for his new company, the Dance Theatre of Harlem. By 1992, Valdes would design costumes for eighty-two productions. She closed her business in 1989 but continued to work with the Dance Theatre of Harlem until her death in 2001 at the age of 97.

 

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Yahoo! used to list BLM among the topics you can select at the top until February 1st, 2021.  They switched it out for Black History.

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creepy joe and kameltoe's America.

Chicago Sees 51 Homicides in January — Highest in 4 Years

The January spike in murders comes after slayings in Chicago soared in 2020 after three years of declining violence.

Over 240 people were shot in Chicago in January, while 158 shooting victims were reported during the same month last year, police said.

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Today we learn about Frederick McKinley Jones and a surprise appearance from someone we learned about last year! 

He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. This attracted the attention of Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who hired Jones in 1930 to improve the sound equipment made by his firm, Cinema Supplies Inc.

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And today we learn about Flip Wilson. His portrayal of Geraldine helped break down barriers for the LGBTQ movement. 

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3 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

And today we learn about Flip Wilson. His portrayal of Geraldine helped break down barriers for the LGBTQ movement. 

Actually, I have a calendar that has this exact real entry. It has a picture of the dress that Flip Wilson wore as Geraldine. 

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23 minutes ago, peenie said:

Actually, I have a calendar that has this exact real entry. It has a picture of the dress that Flip Wilson wore as Geraldine. 

Stop talking about black history and start talking about black future in the US. 

Seriously, stop killing and and shooting each other and start contributing to a successful society. Seriously, they cause 56% of violent crimes as 13% of population? 

Focking stop it. That is the first thing that needs to take place.

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22 minutes ago, peenie said:

Actually, I have a calendar that has this exact real entry. It has a picture of the dress that Flip Wilson wore as Geraldine. 

He was a pisser. 

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Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s) was an African-born man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston. 

Onesimus was a gift to the Puritan church minister Cotton Mather from his congregation in 1706. Onesimus told Mather about the centuries old tradition of inoculation practiced in Africa. By extracting the material from an infected person and scratching it into the skin of an uninfected person, you could deliberately introduce smallpox to the healthy individual making them immune. Considered extremely dangerous at the time, Cotton Mather convinced Dr. Zabdiel Boylston to experiment with the procedure when a smallpox epidemic hit Boston in 1721 and over 240 people were inoculated. Opposed politically, religiously and medically in the United States and abroad, public reaction to the experiment put Mather and Boylston’s lives in danger despite records indicating that only 2% of patients requesting inoculation died compared to the 15% of people not inoculated who contracted smallpox.

Onesimus’ traditional African practice was used to inoculate American soldiers during the Revolutionary War and introduced the concept of inoculation to the United States. 

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Cameroon Man Arrested for Baby Trafficking Gives Stunning Details of Operation

https://www.voanews.com/africa/cameroon-man-arrested-baby-trafficking-gives-stunning-details-operation

YAOUNDE - Cameroon police said Saturday they have opened investigations into a network of traffickers who allegedly buy babies from the central African state to sell in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some members of the network, believed to have illegally sold scores of children, were arrested Saturday in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, with babies they had bought and a mother who said she wanted to sell her unborn child because she is poor. The mother was also arrested. 

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Today we learn about Dr. Patricia Bath, the inventor of laser cataract eye surgery.

Bath became the first African American surgeon at the UCLA medical center and co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.

Bath joined the UCLA medical center in 1974. In 1983, she became chair of its ophthalmology residency program. In the 1980s, Bath began researching the use of lasers in eye treatments, and in 1988, she patented the Laserphaco Probe, a device that removes cataracts.

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Today we learn about Samuel Little, a man who confessed to killing 93 women between 1970 and 2013. 

Samuel was a trained boxer.  He used to beat his victims unconscious and then strangle them.  He targeted vulnerable woman; drug addicts and prostitutes. 

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A fun fact:

Lonnie Johnson created the Super Soaker. He is a former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the #1 selling water toy (over a billion dollars to date).

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Lol, I don’t even remember celebrating Black History Month and I even went to a black school:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CLFRettFYAQ/?igshid=1qhu90fsiwwlr

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Good morning Geeks! Today we learn about Mark Dean! 

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After college, Dean worked for IBM as a computer scientist. He was one of the original inventors of the IBM personal computer and the color PC monitor. He is also responsible for creating the technology that allows devices, such as keyboards, mice, and printers, to be plugged into a computer and communicate with each other. Dean also managed the team that created the one-gigahertz processor chip. Dean continued to further his own education, pursuing a master's degree and eventually a doctorate from Stanford University.

 

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Jesus, this still going on?

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23 hours ago, peenie said:

A fun fact:

Lonnie Johnson created the Super Soaker. He is a former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the #1 selling water toy (over a billion dollars to date).

That man, deserves a holiday.  Just sayin.

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In memory of an historic number from last year November.

 

Chicago hits 700 homicides over weekend that saw 6 killed, 46 wounded

The 700th homicide was a man killed in a quadruple shooting early Sunday on the Far South Side.

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1 minute ago, Utilit99 said:

In memory of an historic number from last year November.

 

Chicago hits 700 homicides over weekend that saw 6 killed, 46 wounded

The 700th homicide was a man killed in a quadruple shooting early Sunday on the Far South Side.

Still one of the best sites on the web:

http://heyjackass.com/

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21 minutes ago, posty said:

Still one of the best sites on the web:

http://heyjackass.com/

Disappointed. I thought it was a website about how your kids talk to you. 

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Bass Reeves. Some believe he was who the Lone Ranger was based on. He was the first black Deputy U.S. Marshall. Pretty interesting guy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

 

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6 minutes ago, The Elevator Killer said:

Bass Reeves. Some believe he was who the Lone Ranger was based on. He was the first black Deputy U.S. Marshall. Pretty interesting guy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

 

Cool, thanks for sharing that one

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Why are we needing a whole month for this?  peenie was going to post things during this month, but from what has been posted thus far, it looks like we could have finished this two days tops...

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I wonder how many people were shot in Chicago this past week.

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8 minutes ago, posty said:

Why are we needing a whole month for this?  peenie was going to post things during this month, but from what has been posted thus far, it looks like we could have finished this two days tops...

I think we reached the extent of Peenie's knowledge of black history.

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Well, I am sick and tired of the abuse from you all and I'm not participating in this anymore.

If you all want to sit and gripe about how unfair the world is to you because you have to actually read about the accomplishments of a maligned group for 1 month out of the year (gasp! shock! oh the horror!) then f-you! I don't have to tolerate this crap. 

 

 

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You going to threaten to leave again or is it another empty promise?

Seriously @peenie,  you really should go to FBG, you would fit in much better in their safe place...

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3 minutes ago, peenie said:

Well, I am sick and tired of the abuse from you all and I'm not participating in this anymore.

If you all want to sit and gripe about how unfair the world is to you because you have to actually read about the accomplishments of a maligned group for 1 month out of the year (gasp! shock! oh the horror!) then f-you! I don't have to tolerate this crap. 

 

 

I was enjoying your updates. I like getting the other side. 

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4 minutes ago, posty said:

You going to threaten to leave again or is it another empty promise?

Seriously @peenie,  you really should go to FBG, you would fit in much better in their safe place...

Well, why don't YOU stop being an ass-hole to me?!! Maybe that would help. 

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4 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I was enjoying your updates. I like getting the other side. 

Thank you HT. Of course, but it's really not the other side, it's the same side, it's really just American History.