January 2011
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“Or perhaps this: perhaps Robert Carter was more American than the rest of them,...”
– Andre Levy, “The Anti-Jefferson: Why Robert Carter III Freed His Slaves (And Why We Couldn’t Care Less)”
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Mono-syllabic history →
“‘We have souls to save in Vir-gin-ia as well as you have here,’ said Mr. Blair.”
Apparently 1889 was a crazy time. This is made evident by the fact that someone though what kids really needed was a history of Virginia written in words of one syllable. I don’t think the author, Emily MacNamara, really understood what the word “words” meant.
But this...
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Yo: question →
superdreaming:
when the waitress at a well known restaurant in downtown richmond that is frequented by “alternative” college students repeatedly and emphatically calls my two ambiguously-gendered, (is that an okay thing to say, guys?) short-hair-sporting, admittedly super cute lunch…
Yeah, it was pretty weird. I don’t usually get gendered pronouns either, especially with having...
American Heros
18thcentury:
George Washington: Pathetic Freak, American Hero, Zombie?
Thomas Jefferson: Creepy as Shit, American Hero, Zombie?