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T.S. Eliot

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”                         -T.S. Eliot

We hugged it out.
All good.

*whew!*

;-)

Teenagers suck...
I somehow thought the one I lived with rocked, but am disappointed by hearing that I ruined her day by needing help with her dad after he had major oral surgery. He stumbled around, he argued with me about laying down, he needed several cigarettes he couldn't smoke, or find his mouth to light. She sulked, said she would rather be with her friends, videoed me trying to change his gauze and convince him not to smoke, then blew us off to go take a nap cause we ruined her day...

I meanwhile have screwed over a bunch of people I work with cause I can't go back to work cause there is no one to look after my partner...his kid is asleep cause I ruined her day.

I left my purse there and everything....

Nat Turner’s rebellion begins

August 21st 1831: Nat Turner’s rebellion begins

On this day in 1831 the Virginian slave Nat Turner began the deadliest slave rebellion the United States had ever seen, which resulted in the deaths of 55 whites. Turner, a slave preacher, had come to believe that God intended for him to lead a black uprising against the injustice of slavery. In the evening of August 21st 1831, Turner and his co-conspirators met in the woods to make their plans and early the next morning began the rebellion by killing Turner’s master’s family. Turner and his men, who soon numbered over 80, then went from house to house assaulting the white inhabitants. Eventually a local militia, and then federal and state troops, confronted the rebels and dispersed the group. Turner himself initially evaded capture but was captured on October 30th. Subsequently Turner, along with over fifty other rebels, was executed. However the retribution for Nat Turner’s rebellion did not end there. The uprising sent shockwaves across the South, and while full scale rebellion such as Turner’s was rare in the Deep South due to the rigid enforcement of the slave system, caused widespread fear of another rebellion. In the ensuing hysteria over 200 innocent black slaves were killed by white mobs. Turner’s rebellion came close to ending slavery in Virginia, as in its wake the state legislature considered abolishing the ‘peculiar institution’. However the measure was voted down and instead the state decided to increase plantation discipline and limit slaves’ autonomy even further by banning them from acting as preachers and learning to read. Similar measures were adopted across the slave-holding South and thus Nat Turner’s rebellion increased the South’s commitment to slavery, despite undermining the pro-slavery argument that it was a benevolent system and slaves were content. Turner has left behind a complicated legacy, with some seeing him as an African-American hero and others as a religious fanatic and villain; his memory raises the eternal question of whether violence is justified to bring about necessary change.

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Earbug- Genesis - Misunderstanding

WOW< Hollywood in the 70's is tripping me out!!