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The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens, many of whom are intelligent, cultured, and virtuous, while it is unstintingly bestowed upon the other, some of whom are illiterate, debauched and vicious, because the word "people", by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicographical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.---Mary Church Terrell
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all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black
MY LEAST FAVORITE PEOPLE EVER: the ones who act as though though it took BRAINS OR EFFORT to be born into a white or wealthy family, or to be born male. There are those who have advantages and sort of don't know what to do with them, and I can live with that (reluctantly), but the people who take pride in it as though they EARNED it somehow ARE TOO STUPID TO LIVE.
(This obviously gets me riled.)
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It's the apathy of people that just chaps my ass raw. This fucking sense of entitlement without any sense of responsibility. Those of us who are lucky enough to have voices and don't use them are shameful. It dishonors every effort made on our behalf by people who cared enough about the future to fight for our say in it. And now our say is what? I can't be bothered with having a say??? Gah!! That's what makes me crazy...it's the reason we have a moronic drooling dickhead in the Whitehouse being puppeteered by BIG BUSINESS(aka WHITE RICH MALES).
Whew! Ranting! It must be contagious! ; )
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I was a voice crying in the wilderness on all of the races here in Georgia. The only ones which went the way I was voting were the local city commission races. I wound up having to vote in a precinct other than the one in which I live. The address on my driver's license is wrong, and that is the one used for voter registration. I only feel moderately guilty having done that, given how dismal the outcome was in all of the other faces.
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p.s. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea!
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"faces" for races?
Have you noticed the wine prices of late? At least something is going in the right direction?
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"faces" for races?
Have you noticed the wine prices of late? At least something is going in the right direction.
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Just checking in saying Hidey-Ho!
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I put up the posters, and complained a bit, to the typically useless polling workers. (What a crew of strange folk! A story in itself. One old lady in huge, huge hair and red-leopard mules, did not stick out too much in that crowd. Would've been cute except they couldn't read, and kept telling people "I don't see your name, hon.")
After all that, and watching some of the early returns, I just passed out, and woke up in the wee hours, to the horrible news, with an outrageous migraine. My first in months. Thanks, Georgie Peorgie.
One good thing, I feel motivated to join some group, generally anathema to me. Do you have any suggestions? I'd like one that concentrates just on the basics, not on a whole bunch of out-there issues. (Sort of like what the Democrats SHOULD be doing, instead of diddling about.)
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PS: Lavendar harvest sounds SOOOO good! I went to a place like that in New England a few years ago, 'twas wunnerful.