14.2.19

a civil rights Valentine


from his elected assemblyman a Republican who he didnt vote for who he personally knew their politics didnt align sent him an informative email

Friends it began  February is Teen Dating Violence (TDV – of course it is –everyfuckingthing has to be reduced to an acronym hiding in plain sight)  Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

the email continued  It is important for parents and teenagers to know the ten most common Warning signs of Teen Dating Violence:

1.  he or she checks their girlfriend/boyfriends cell phone without permission
2.  he or she exhibits jealousy or insecurity (theyre teenagers)
3.  he or she constantly belittles or puts down their friend
4.  they exhibit explosive temper
5.  seek to isolate their girlfriend or boyfriend from their family and friends
6.  they make false accustions
7.  exhibit constant mood swings towards their girlfriend/boyfriend
8.  they physically inflict pain or hurt in any way on the other
9.  exhibit possessiveness
10.  they tell someone what they can or cannot due

it concluded with  If you need help or someone you know does, please reach out to the National Dating Abuse Helpline by calling 1-866-331-9474 or texting “loveis” to 22522


hmm
       seemed to him one should talkapproach their parents first parents worth their salt ought to be able to set things straight with the girlfriend or boyfriends parents  

he replied to the assemblymans email  NO 
                                             he replied NO  because February is Black History Month  he enclosed the site http://mentalfloss.com/article/91756/why-was-february-chosen-black-history-month to help remind his representative what February was and that ought to be reflected upon  engaged   taught

TDV was welcome to some other month not February 
                                                        if he truly wanted to engage his constituency regarding violence he could engage the historical violence the brutality of slavery  the heinous lynchings   the Jim Crow laws    or recall that our president sought to mollify belligerent white racists at Charlottesville  (there were) Some very fine people on both sides 

NO there werent       


he learned earlier in the day during a television interview with Spike Lee (for his Academy Award nominated film BlacKkKlansman) of the date 1619  400 years ago the first Africans arrived at Jamestown however the Smithsonian suggests that might be a misguided date  scores of Africans plundered from the Spanish under the command of Sir Francis Drake arrived at Roanoke Island in 1586 and enslaved Africans arrived in what today is South Carolina as part of a Spanish expedition in 1526

Spike Lees interviewer Joe Scarborough then enlightened himhe didnt know it he learned that 10 of Americas first 12 presidents owned slaves
                           or maybe  rather  they were plundered Africans  a plundered African might not be a slave

2233,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  13  2. 19
1421,  Thursday,  14  2. 19
is civil rights a warped Valentine
John Paul Young  “loveis” in the Air  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo