#miners

What happens when a town deports nearly 1,200 people—and then never speaks of it again? In today's new Longreads essay, Masha Hamilton returns to Bisbee, Arizona, where in 1917 a posse of 2,000 vigilantes rounded up striking miners and drove them into the desert by cattle car. Her great-grandfather escaped over the mountains. The family never spoke of it.

Names. In a town that had sorted her family with slurs and lists, keeping her name was its own small strike. It was her way of saying: We are here, and we are not done yet.

Resting with load at the head of the slope. Small boy is Jo Puma, a nipper. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 years old, but he has no school certificate, although working in the mine. Pittston, Pa.

Record Group 102: Records of the Children's BureauSeries: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine

Megatron is determined to fight.

I had this idea about TFO. So in real life caste systems, especially medieval and back, most of the lower and lowest castes are mostly or completely illiterate. So, miners are the lowest ranking caste and their only job is to mine and follow orders.

After Orion becomes Optimus Prime (and effectively the supreme leader of cybertron) he puts time and resources into educating the ex miners and himself. However, Megatron basically only has himself and the high guard as resources. He's not about to admit to any of these power hungry nutjobs that he can't read.

The high guard has no idea since they weren't present in Iacon during Sentinal's reign. They just assumed their fearsome leader can do something as basic as reading.