“I am.. hoping that our future may be found in the past fugitive moments of compassion rather than and it’s solid centuries of warfare that, being his blood, as I can, is my approach to the history of the United States. The reader maze will know that before going on.” - #HowardZimm A People’s History of the United States
"At 21 years old, Mira Nadon became the first Asian-American principal at New York City Ballet upon her promotion in February. This means that she’s the first woman of Asian descent to reach the highest rank at one of the oldest and most prestigious ballet companies in the entire world."
If you happen to be in Toronto tomorrow morning, come and hear me speak about the creation and early history of the Indian Fund - monies held in trust for First Nations by the Crown. Stick around for Maggie Jones (w/ Feir & Scoones) on Indian Missions in the US and Rob Gillezeau (w/ Feir & Jones) on the causes and effects of treaty-making in Canada. The rest of the program looks great too.
Was reading through a UK newspaper from 1890, there's a factual report on police in America arranging a lynching.
The way it's reported, it doesn't sound anything like a civilian police force, more like a faction from a genocidal civil war. This isn't a 21st Century view of 19th Century morality, it's a contemporary 19th Century report from a disinterested foreign reporter in a mainstream paper.
The US seems to have exceptionally poor foundations for any kind of civilian law enforcement if this is a typical example. It doesn't sound like a civilian organisation at all, more like a death squad.
Deeply disturbing.
I don't know what could be done about it, but just as an outsider it seems like the US has never fully resolved its civil war?