……The slaves who first arrived in Jamestown seems to have been placed in the category of indentured servants, as were so many whites who came to America…..slaves had no legal statist at all….they could not give testimony in a court of law….nor could they sue or be sued….yet in 1624….John Phillip….one of the twenty servants purchased from a Dutch warship appears in a court record as having given testimony…..historian J.A. Rogers tells of white ‘European slavery…..mostly British…..who died like flies on the slave ship cross to the New World….on one voyage…..1,100 died out of 1,500….and another 350 out of 400….. “In Virginia, white servitude was for a limited time period….but was sometimes extended for life….in the West Indies….particularly in the case of the Irish…..it was a way of life….White people were sold in the United States up to 1826…..fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence…..Andrew Johnson, President of the United States was a runaway…..and was advertised in the newspapers……White folks contracts were usually cheaper than those of Black slaves…..because the former were less valuable…..they were given the harshest treatment on the voyages to the New World…..ships carrying white indentured servants sailed with the hatches closed……when they reached New World…..the hatches were opened….they living were sent ashore….and the dead bodies were tossed over-board…..between 1750 and 1755…..more than two thousand bodies were tossed into New York Harbor alone…..White children were kidnaped in the British Isles at a rate of several thousand yearly……and sold into servitude in America and the West Indies during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries…..such a practice would have been frowned upon by Cicero…..in a letter to Atticus he warned….. “Do not obtain your slaves from Britian……because they are stupid and so utterly incapable of being taught that they are not fit to form part of the households of Athens”…..just some more stuff you can…..CRT!
25 OF THE SADDEST MOVIES IN THE HISTORY OF CRYING YOUR EYES OUT….I love these surveys….and they never get it right….but they did list a few that brought tears to my eyes….and I’ll start with the one that tore my guts out……The Boy in the Striped Pajamas….I was finished after that one….it ripped me apart…..The Kite Runner….it was good…..but the book was great…..Never Let Me Go…..I think this film slipped by a lot of people….the shot of them leaving her on the operating table…..made me go refill my glass with something stronger than what I was drinking….Silenced…..this one comes out of South Korea…..talk about abuse and injustice……and…..Life is Beautiful…..yep, got me at the end…..the rest……a few are actually cinematic classics…..but not really tearjerkers.
85-YEAR-OLD BLACK WOMAN INDUCTED INTO BARBECUE HALL OF FAME….I didn’t even know one existed….one things for sure….if you’re inducted into that…..that means you can burn…..and some of y’all know what I mean….when I say you can “Burn!”
SCRATCHES ON A CAVE WALL IN FRANCE LIKELY TO BE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF NEANDERTHAL ART….Either that….or my man was desperately trying to get out of that cave….because if I was trapped in a cave…..future generations would be admiring my scratchy art too…..I wonder if they’ve figured out a way to preserve the cave art found in southern France…..that will soon be submerged underwater?
ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH ANCIENT MAYA CITY IN MEXICO’S JUNGLE….Y’all need to keep digging your way through Central America…..because you’re going to find many, many more.
GUEST SPENDS 603 NIGHTS AT FIVE-STAR HOTEL WITHOUT PAYING….How is that even possible??….Ankush Dutta was supposed to checkout after one night….but reportedly stayed….for nearly two years…..and now the Indian police are investigating……my man Ankush booked a room at the Roseate House Hotel in Delhi…..on May 30th 2019……he was supposed to leave the next day….but said “Nah”…..and stayed until January 22nd 2021….leaving behind an unpaid bill of…..and get this….$70,000 dollars…..the police said accounts were falsified to conceal the actual outstanding amount…..and hotel managers filed police reports against several employees for conspiracy, forgery and…..cheating…..saying the staff members were bribed to manipulate the in-house software systems……man, dude would’ve never made it out the front door because there’s no way in hell…..he would stick me with an unpaid bill of 70 grand…..man, I would’ve found some people who would’ve handled that problem for me cheaper than 70 G’s.
KEVIN COSTNER’S ESTRANGED WIFE IS REQUESTING $248,000 A MONTH FOR CHILD SUPPORT AMID DIVORCE….I mentioned this to a friend…..and I truly mean no disrespect to women…..but he said….. “That bitch is crazy…..Kevin needs to sue for custody of the kids….. and kick her ass to the curb”…..his words….not mine…..but I agree with him…..the kids are….16, 14 and 13…..one’s leaving the house in two years….another one is graduating school in 3…..248 G’s a month…..yeah, right.