Dixieland Rebel With a Conscience

#ActsofPride Day 11 - Favorite LGBTQIA+ historical figure

“Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky, and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.” - Josephine Baker



Tumblr Creatr @Rose contributed this original work based on today’s prompt celebrating the iconic Josephine Baker. The American-born world renowned Black bisexual dancer, actress, singer, civil rights champion, and WWII French resistance agent rose to fame in the 1920s and quickly became one of the most famous entertainers in her adopted home of France. Pablo Picasso and Earnest Hemingway were also huge fans.

The artist told us a little about why Baker inspires her:

“Josephine Baker was hailed as ‘The Black Venus’ by fellow artists of her time. Though she fled the oppression she faced in America in 1925 to live the majority of her life in France, she returned often to fight for civil rights, speaking alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington. Now more than ever, it is vital to lift up queer Black lives and histories, and Josephine’s is one of pure resilience, love, and absolute joy” 

~ Scaraboid gem with a dolphin.

Culture: Greek

Period: Classical Period

Date: 450–400 B.C.

By: @/KyraSheaMedleys on Twitter 

General Orders, No. 3.

The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor. The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

Juneteenth is not only a day of celebration, it is a day of reflection, contemplation, discussion and, most importantly, ACTION. The practice of slavery has its roots in ancient and possibly prehistoric times and is found in most cultures throughout the world. The enslavement of African-Americans, however, was the most significant in terms of contemporary ideas about race because it was the FIRST and ONLY time in WORLD HISTORY that the practice of slavery was legislatively stipulated to be based exclusively on racial identity AND to be imposed on future generations indefinitely or forever based on the status of the mother. This mandate was adopted and approved for legislation by the colony of Virginia in 1683 and became federal law immediately following the Revolutionary War. Slave status was determined by the status of the mother. This was to ensure that children fathered by white fathers and Black mothers would not be free, which was the common custom previously. Why the change? The rape of Black women by the white master was so common that in the colony of Virginia, for example, the population of American born slaves increased from 2% of the population in 1745 to 80% by 1783. Of these children, nearly 75% were mixed, and by the early 19th century it wasn't uncommon to see enslaved people with ivory skin and blonde hair. In summary, the laws were designed not only to designate an entire race to the status of slave but to ensure the enslavement of future offspring AND to implement a breeding farm system so to speak wherein the master could feasibly produce his own slaves and thus make more profit.

Profit. Slavery was all about money. To give you an idea just how valuable slaves were to the US economy not to mention the world's economy, by 1845, enslaved African-Americans accounted for 80% of the nation's assets and produced 75% of the nation's wealth. No "asset" has ever comprised that much of any nation's economy before or since. Scary.

Before he was apprehended, Carrillo scrawled the word “boog” and “I became unreasonable” in blood on the hood of a car. “Boog” is short for boogaloo, a far-right anti-government movement that began on the extremist site 4chan and aims to start a second American civil war.

The phrase “I became unreasonable” has become a meme in public Boogaloo communities on Facebook, which discuss weapons and fantasize about a second civil war. One recent meme on Facebook shows a man holding a Boogaloo flag at a protest, along with the phrase “Become unreasonable.”

“I became unreasonable” is a reference to a quote written by Marvin Heemeyer, an anti-government extremist who bulldozed 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, in retribution for a zoning dispute. Heemeyer killed himself after the rampage, which occurred on June 4, 2004, almost 16 years to the day of Carrillo’s attack.

Heemeyer is known by the nickname Killdozer in extremist groups online and is frequently quoted in Boogaloo Discord chats and Facebook groups.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1230321?__twitter_impression=true

"Damn, Damn, DAYYYUMM! Why didn't I go with my FIRST gut reaction!"

Words of wisdom for those who, like myself, overthink our initial gut intuition:

ALWAYS GO WITH YOUR FIRST AND I MEAN ABSOLUTE FIRST GUT REACTION!!

Don't question it. Don't second guess it. Don't rationalize it. Don't go with what someone else or everybody else says. Even if it defies all laws of physics, spirit and humanity, just fu##ing do it. Indigenous people, Enlightened monks, philosophers, Mambas, Houngans, seers and Shamans all throughout the world rely on their gut reaction to guide them through everything they do. This is how and why uncontacted Indigenous tribes have survived tens of thousands of years (the San people of southern Africa have maintained their beautiful and fruitful way of life for over 100,000 years! We as Americans have been here only a little less than 250 years and today we are at the brink of extinction. We need to learn from the San people and follow accordingly.

Her name was Na’kia Crawford.

She was 18.

She was shot at five time while peacefully waiting at a Red Light simply for being BLACK.

Am I PROUD of being white? HELL NO!

I'm a white Southern boy descended from a long line of proud, white, confederate flag waiving, white cross burning, slave owning, Dixieland loyalists who made a fortune off the forced uncompensated labor of Black folks stolen from their homes in Africa and sold on auction blocks like hogs and cattle. This very land on which I'm comfortably sitting upon in my family's home is the same land that's been passed down from father to son generation after generation since 1784 when my great(/x4)grandfather, Col. William Adrienne Channing ordered his men to slaughter the small village of peaceful Indigenous Natchez families whose ancestors had lived there for tens of thousands of years. This phone I'm typing on is mine because of commercial crops grown on land drenched in the blood of little kids and grandmothers and proud daddies who woke up one morning to find themselves surrounded and barricaded by a few dozen white men armed with muskets and swords and knives. It took less than 5 minutes. Not one life was spared. I have this 509$ phone because Black women and girls as young as 3 were brutally raped and beaten by my great (2) grandfather who fathered over 100 babies he didn't think twice about tearing away from its mother's breast and trading for a cigarette.