…..You mean things about people like…..James Baldwin……Shirley Chisholm…..Bessie Coleman…..Gordon Parks…..Jane Bolin…..Marsha P. Johnson……Marian Anderson……Phillis Wheatley……Benjamin O. Davis……Henrietta Lacks…..Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler…..Frederick McKinley Jones…..George Washington Carver…..Langston Hughes…….Zora Neale Hurston….no?…..oh, you mean things like…..hundreds of Nazis fled to America after WWII….Zoot Suits prompted assaults during the 1940’s……the government created relocation programs that forced Native Americans off their land…..Puerto Rican women were used as birth control test subjects……the Tulsa race massacre left thousands of Black citizens homeless…..Neil Armstrong was probably misquoted on the moon…..there was a great molasses flood in Boston in 1919…..the Anglo-Zanzibar war was the shortest in history……some of the world’s worst disasters were caused by sleep deprivation……women couldn’t submit a credit application at a bank without a man until 1974…..Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead a raid during the civil war…..the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during prohibition to deter people from drinking…..Iceland’s parliament is the oldest in history…..the 1969 Stonewall uprising was the start of the LGBTQ rights movement…..and last but…..thank goodness….the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all enslaved people…..seriously?….I should’ve learned that in H.S.?…..there’s only one I didn’t know about….and that was Iceland’s history……everything else…..I knew about before H.S…..and after…..here’s my #16……On July 11, 1935…..Earlene Brown was born in Texas….she loved sports…..baseball, basketball, football and softball…..she joined the Amateur Athletic Union in her twenties…..and was shortlisted for the 1956 Olympics in Australia…..she lacked proper training…..and worked to support her dream of becoming an outstanding athlete…..days before the 1964 Olympics in L.A…..she was kicked out of her home…..grabbed her passport…..borrowed some cash from her friends…..and used the money to pursue her dream….she became the first woman and first Black woman….. in the U.S. to win a bronze medal in the shot put during the 1960 games…..in the years to come…..she rose to become one of America’s top-flying athletes…..even rubbing shoulders with Mildred “Babe” Didrikson…..Earlene did not enjoy the stardom and media buzz placed on Babe…..she was considered a “White” sports icon….Earlene was not…..but don’t worry……this won’t be the 16th thing…..you should learn in “HIGH”-school.
WIFE THROWS BOILING POT AT HUSBAND IN A RESTAURANT…..Man honestly,…..I don’t know which is worse…..at hot pot of soup slamming upside your face….or a pot of grits…..either way, you really have to piss someone off…..for that to happen.
MARLORIE GREENE’S HOPES OF BEING TRUMP’S VP SUFFER A KILLER BLOW…..Wow…..can you imagine those two….running the country?…..I would sit on my sofa across the pond…..and laugh my ass of…..while I watched America implode.
WAREHOUSE ROBOT COLLAPSES AFTER WORKING FOR 20 HOURS STRAIGHT….Damn,…..you know that’s a shit job….if it killed a robot.
ED SHEERAN SAYS HE’LL QUIT MUSIC IF HE’S FOUNG GUILTY OF PLAGIARISING SONG…..They’re saying he copied Marvin Gaye…..just like that Robin guy did….well, if you wanna quit….ok…..I’m not bumping your music anyway…..UPDATE:….he won his case…..still not bumping your music.
SAUDI ARABIA INVITES LGBTQ VISITORS TO VACATION THERE…..For what?….target practice, abuse…..spend time in jail just because the person is who they are?…..that makes about as much sense….as me accepting an invitation from a Tennessee politician…..to attend a KKK BBQ party…..really Saudi Arabia?……LGBTQ rights are not even recognized by your government…..it’s illegal…..this criminal code is derived for the Islamic Sharia…..from the 7th-century Quran…..and the prophetic teachings of Lut…..and Muhammad…..which has been meticulously preserved in the Sunnah….homosexuality and being transgender are widely seen as immoral and indecent activities…..and the law punishes acts of homosexuality with capital punishment…..up to life in prison, fines deportation and flogging….and chemical castration has been used……so please explain to me….why in the hell would a gay person…..or a transgender person….would want to even think…..about visiting your country?
HOW SUPER BOWL 2023 CHANGED THE TRAJECTORY OF THE BLACK QB FOREVER….That game between Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts…..was the most watched Super Bowl in NFL history…..and Domonique Foxworth thinks White NFL fans…..will have a problem with all these Black QB’s…..three of the top four recruits in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft….were Black QB’s.
AND OFF TO THE WORLD OF THE STUPID…..
A man drilled a hole in his own skull to stay constantly high
I LOVE THIS…..SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS THE SONG….. “Sweet dreams are made of cheese…..who am I to diss a Brie…..I Cheddar the world and the Feta cheese….everybody’s looking for Stilton”
AND MY FAVORITE……
“The amount of flak Pierce Brosnan gets for remaining married to his….normally aging, non-movie star wife…..is insane to me……they’ve been married 20+ years……and some people can’t seem to comprehend…..that he has no desire to trade in the woman he loves…..for a younger model.”