.......TRYING TO BE MYSELF................WHO CAN DO ME BETTER THAN ME....YA KNOW.......FEEL FREE TO ASK ME ANYTHING ...OH AND FOLLOW A DUDE.....!!!!!!
hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:
he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man
he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?
when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times
the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)
Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s outdoor sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Source)
This was the most visceral monument I have ever scene. It makes you feel physically ill. It is beautiful, human work about evil, human actions that we must never ever forget.