In 1983, he was playing country western music in a "white" bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had "heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis". Davis explained to the man that "Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he's a friend of mine". The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.
A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a "question in my head from the age of 10: 'Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?' That question had never been answered from my youth".
Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.
Muhammad Ali - avoided fighting in Vietnam by standing up for his woke principles of DEI, not claiming bone spurs
Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong - both included, presumably in case Donald gets the two confused
John James Audubon - immigrant from Haiti, and we all know what that means!
Alexander Graham Bell - Scots and Canadian and worked with people with disabilities; we all know how much that Venn diagram loves Trump
Ingrid Bergman - Swedish actress. I mean, 100% Swedish. Are you even trying to pick American heroes?
Johnny Cash - the man who wore black out of empathy for the poor and incarcerated. Probably wouldn't even piss on Trump if he was on fire.
Christopher Columbus - I thought Trump was one of those who insisted on "America" meaning only the United States of America. Which Columbus was not born in, naturalized in, lived in or ever even visited. Or does Trump think that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Palm Beach to be welcomed by Paul Bunyan and George Washington saying "50% off all mattresses all weekend!"?
But don't worry, folks in the free world, this won't apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn't pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote compared to the last election (+7.5%), in particular among younger voters. The Liberals only scraped together just enough for only a minority govt because the vote for other parties plummeted.
I do wish something like AM's functions was built into an all-in-one package manager for my distro. The closest I found was bauh which handles "AppImage, Debian and Arch Linux packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and Web applications". Which seems like an all-in-one solution.
But the problem with bauh (that last time I tried it) is that it accesses only a small number of (often very out-of-date) AppImages from the largely moribund AppImageHub.com, unlike AM, which pulls in the latest releases from loads of GitHub repos, and adds more on a frequent basis or request.
klu9 @ klu9 @lemmy.ca Posts 12Comments 266Joined 4 mo. ago
Reminds me of Daryl Davis.