Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
— 17th century folk poem

Plantations Are A National Abomination by Yours Truly via @medium

https://medium.com/free-thinkr/plantations-are-a-national-abomination-fbfe48abe2a3

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I'm still beyond salty about the ban on AP African American history. I don't know why it isn't registering just how far out of line this is.

This is the tamest and most conventional kind of class. It's not like it's IDK a course of "Planned Shrinkage" or "US covert operations in South America" this is just... normal and I THOUGHT well established history.

This is why I never liked studying history. I just don't get the borders of the subject. It's a big mess.

Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth

#Fensterfreitag #Windowfriday #BlackAndWhite #Photography pic from #Banff #Canada some years ago

It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938

While Amazon celebrates its record breaking revenues, they want you to forget about the worker death that happened during Prime Day.

Especially since they didn't help the victim over 20 mins after he collapsed, and told his coworkers to just keep working.

Amazon has always picks profits over people. #FightCorporateGreed #UnionsForAll #DemCast

All this #BlackHistoryMonth, I'll be sharing from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC. Some pics I took and some from their collection directly. The lead designer for the project was Sir David Frank Adjaye, a Ghanaian-British architect born in Tanzania. The design is Yourba inspired. It sits on the last spot left on the National Mall.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/building

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Police do not save lives.

Doctors save lives. Emergency medical technicians save lives. Firefighters save lives.

Police do not save lives. They take them.

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Disappointing to see an ISP strategically filing false information to the FCC to block funds to potential competitors.

But even more Infuriating that the FCC knew this would happen and has no plan except to say it would be nice if everything worked out.

Millions of Americans won't get better Internet access that they need because FCC Commissioners refuse to take their job seriously.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/cable-company-tries-to-block-grants-to-rivals-by-lying-about-coverage-area/

“Each note that Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost.

Blount is a professional touring musician who plays traditional Black Folk Music.” https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/the-race/meet-the-musician-teaching-the-banjos-african-roots

Spring time in Cole Valley in SF

There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.

/ octavia butler

Here is the original inventor of rock and roll—and the steel guitar. Sister Rosetta Thorpe doesn’t get the credit—and she really should. Many of the rock and roll “inventors” need to pay their respects to her. Little Richard and Chuck Berry others owe a great deal to her. 🙏🏿

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samson and delilah #blackart #aiart #afrofuturism #conceptart #blackhair #blackhistory #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday