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The Devil’s Punchbowl is a place located in Natchez, Mississippi where during the Civil War; authorities forced tens of thousands of freed slaves to live into concentration camps. Westbrook adds that, “The union army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp. They just gave ’em shovels and said bury ’em where they drop.”

According to researcher Paula Westbrook, she researched through Adams County Sheriff’s reports from the time.

“When the slaves were released from the plantations during the occupation they overran Natchez. And the population went from about 10,000 to 120,000 overnight,” Westbrook said.




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Was The Devil’s Punchbowl A U.S. Concentration Camp for Black Slaves?

In an investigative story reported by WJTV News Channel 12 out of Jackson, Mississippi, “Mass Graves Remain in The Devil’s Punchbowl of Natchez.” The Devil's Punchbowl is a place located in Natchez, Mississippi where during the Civil War; authorities forced tens of thousands of freed slaves to...
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Ray McGuire to enter New York City mayor’s race
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NEW YORK — Wall Street executive Ray McGuire is running for mayor — literally.

Six weeks after leaving his job as a vice chairman at Citigroup, the 63-year-old Manhattan resident plans to launch his campaign Wednesday with a video featuring him jogging through city streets as Spike Lee narrates a tale of New York’s pandemic-era struggles.


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Ray McGuire to enter New York City mayor’s race

“When I look at where we are, New York is broken and divided. New Yorkers are scared,” McGuire said.
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On this date in 1846, Norbert Rillieux, a Black inventor and engineer, patented his revolutionary improvement in the cultivation and processing of sugar.
Rillieux was born into an aristocratic Creole family in New Orleans. He was the son of Vincent Rillieux, a white plantation owner, engineer and inventor, and his placée, Constance Vivant, a Free Person of Color. As a Creole, Norbert had access to education and privileges not available to lower-status blacks or slaves.
Before his invention, sugar was an expensive luxury, used only on special occasions. The process used to make sugar, known as the Jamaica Train, was a slow, dangerous, and expensive task, usually performed by slaves. They would work over open, boiling kettles, ladling sugarcane juice from one container to another. A large number of workers were scalded to death and others received terrible burns. The final product of this process was a dark thick syrupy substance, resembling caramel rather than the granulated form known today. The syrupy sugar was poured into cones to dry and was bought and sold in this condition.
Rillieux had begun developing a method for refining sugar into crystallized granules between 1834 and 1843, when he patented it. The concept for Rillieux’s evaporation process is a multiple-effect operation in which a series of vacuum pans heat one another in sequence, thus controlling the overall temperature and producing the desired crystallized form. The importance of Rillieux’s invention to the American sugar-making industry cannot be overstated.
His evaporation process made it possible for the United States to dominate the world market and this process is still used for things like freeze-drying food, pigments, and other industrial products.
In 1881, at the age of 75, Rillieux made one last foray into sugar evaporation, devising a way to use his multiple effect evaporation system to extract sugar from sugar beets. Rillieux's process fixed the errors in the previous process, but Rillieux lost the rights to the patent he had filed.
Norbert Rillieux died in poverty on October 8, 1894 at the age of 88. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His wife, Emily ****ow, died in 1912 and is buried beside him.
 
“It’s as if the Black community is trapped in Groundhog Day in which every day we fight racism, prove it exists, see gains, and then wake up the next day to all the same obstacles. In the movie, Bill Murray escaped the cycle by becoming selfless, caring more about others’ needs than his greedy desires,” Abdul-Jabbar writes. “That’s how America will escape this self-destructive behavior.”

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the inequities of the health care system: 'Black lives are at risk. Serious risk'

In the Wednesday piece “Black Lives Matter” for WebMD’s social justice magazine series, Abdul-Jabbar speak about how his experience compares with that of the Black American community at large.
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On this date, from 1800, we celebrate the Shango religion, one of many African inspired religions practiced in the Americas.
Practiced primarily in Trinidad, Grenada, and Recife (Brazil) where it is known as Xango, it was developed in the 19th century. Shango was brought from the African Yorba tribe during slavery. The deity, orisha, whose power is represented by the images of thunder and lightning. As the legendary fourth king of the ancient kingdom of Oyo, Shango's rule was marked by whimsical use of power. One account asserts that Shango was fascinated with magical powers. He inadvertently caused a thunderstorm and lightning struck his own palace killing many of his wives and children.
In repentance he left his kingdom and traveled to Koso, where he hung himself. When his enemies cast contempt upon his name, a rash of storms destroyed parts of Oyo. Shango's followers proclaimed him a god and said the storms were Shango's wrath, avenging his enemies. All of the stories concerning Shango represent the theme of capricious, authoritative, creative, destructive, magical, medicinal, and moral power. Shango's staff visualizes the unpredictable and violent power of the divine being. This power is personified through dance.
The religious worship centers on the Chapelle, a small cult house, and the Palais, a tent where ceremonies and healing take place. Each year the Palais is the scene of a major festival for Shango that ranges from recitation of the Lord's prayer to manifestations of Shango’s spirit and animal sacrifices. At the festival, an entranced devotee, the elegunshango, dances to the sharp staccato rhythms of the bata drum and waves the staff, oshe, with violent and threatening gestures--and then suddenly draws it to himself in a motion of quiet serenity. In one account regarding the oshe shango, the female figure who balances the ax, the sign of Shango's power, is equated with the "caprice and creative experience of human sexuality."
Shango's power is compared to the libidinal drive which may prove dangerous to the possibilities of creative sexual relationships. This interpretation may reinforce racial stereotypes of African male sexual prowess. Perhaps the Shango cult may instead be viewed as a warning of the arrogant use of military power to political leadership.
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KHUFU said:
On this date, from 1800, we celebrate the Shango religion, one of many African inspired religions practiced in the Americas.
Practiced primarily in Trinidad, Grenada, and Recife (Brazil) where it is known as Xango, it was developed in the 19th century. Shango was brought from the African Yorba tribe during slavery. The deity, orisha, whose power is represented by the images of thunder and lightning. As the legendary fourth king of the ancient kingdom of Oyo, Shango's rule was marked by whimsical use of power. One account asserts that Shango was fascinated with magical powers. He inadvertently caused a thunderstorm and lightning struck his own palace killing many of his wives and children.
In repentance he left his kingdom and traveled to Koso, where he hung himself. When his enemies cast contempt upon his name, a rash of storms destroyed parts of Oyo. Shango's followers proclaimed him a god and said the storms were Shango's wrath, avenging his enemies. All of the stories concerning Shango represent the theme of capricious, authoritative, creative, destructive, magical, medicinal, and moral power. Shango's staff visualizes the unpredictable and violent power of the divine being. This power is personified through dance.
The religious worship centers on the Chapelle, a small cult house, and the Palais, a tent where ceremonies and healing take place. Each year the Palais is the scene of a major festival for Shango that ranges from recitation of the Lord's prayer to manifestations of Shango’s spirit and animal sacrifices. At the festival, an entranced devotee, the elegunshango, dances to the sharp staccato rhythms of the bata drum and waves the staff, oshe, with violent and threatening gestures--and then suddenly draws it to himself in a motion of quiet serenity. In one account regarding the oshe shango, the female figure who balances the ax, the sign of Shango's power, is equated with the "caprice and creative experience of human sexuality."
Shango's power is compared to the libidinal drive which may prove dangerous to the possibilities of creative sexual relationships. This interpretation may reinforce racial stereotypes of African male sexual prowess. Perhaps the Shango cult may instead be viewed as a warning of the arrogant use of military power to political leadership.
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Had no idea.

Hidden in plain sight...

 
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lol so African Americans are relying on movies for their scientific literacy?
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No need.

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Apparently, a lot of ppl don’t understand why many Black People would be skeptical about the current push for vaccinations. So let’s revisit exactly why. Known officially as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. They treated us like lab rats. The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932, at at a time when there was no known treatment for syphilis. After being recruited by the promise of free medical care, 600 men originally were enrolled in the project.

The participants were primarily sharecroppers, and many had never before visited a doctor. Doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was running the study, informed the participants—399 men with latent syphilis and a control group of 201 others who were free of the disease—they were being treated for bad blood, a term commonly used in the area at the time to refer to a variety of ailments. The men were monitored by health workers but only given placebos such as aspirin and mineral supplements, despite the fact penicillin became the recommended treatment for syphilis in 1947. PHS researchers convinced local physicians in Macon County not to treat the participants, and research was done at the Tuskegee Institute. In order to track the disease’s full progression, researchers provided no effective care as the men died, went blind or insane or experienced other severe health problems due to their untreated syphilis. Pure evil. And this is only one of many examples.

Now, I’m not saying anything specifically about anyone who is currently dedicating their lives to pushing for vaccinations. From a scientific standpoint, how else could we truly defeat the Coronavirus ? But I’m saying there’s a reason many Black People in particular are leery.
#coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19 #covid #tuskegeeexperiment
 
KHUFU said:
No need.

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Apparently, a lot of ppl don’t understand why many Black People would be skeptical about the current push for vaccinations. So let’s revisit exactly why. Known officially as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. They treated us like lab rats. The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932, at at a time when there was no known treatment for syphilis. After being recruited by the promise of free medical care, 600 men originally were enrolled in the project.

The participants were primarily sharecroppers, and many had never before visited a doctor. Doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was running the study, informed the participants—399 men with latent syphilis and a control group of 201 others who were free of the disease—they were being treated for bad blood, a term commonly used in the area at the time to refer to a variety of ailments. The men were monitored by health workers but only given placebos such as aspirin and mineral supplements, despite the fact penicillin became the recommended treatment for syphilis in 1947. PHS researchers convinced local physicians in Macon County not to treat the participants, and research was done at the Tuskegee Institute. In order to track the disease’s full progression, researchers provided no effective care as the men died, went blind or insane or experienced other severe health problems due to their untreated syphilis. Pure evil. And this is only one of many examples.

Now, I’m not saying anything specifically about anyone who is currently dedicating their lives to pushing for vaccinations. From a scientific standpoint, how else could we truly defeat the Coronavirus ? But I’m saying there’s a reason many Black People in particular are leery.
#coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19 #covid #tuskegeeexperiment
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lol conspiracy theories are working on African Americans. There are e3asier ways to kill them off.....cigarettes, McDonalds, water. But the lack of scientific literacy is what's going to kill a lot of people.
 
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