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Another tidbit, different from the HIStory narrative.
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James was just one victim of what has come to be known as the “Lavender Scare,” a period of time contemporaneous with the “Red Scare” of the 1950s, when suspected communists were purged from the U.S. government.
Ms Riley, who is a lesbian, said: 'Joining the Navy was what my vocation was and I thought at the time that I could, and should, push down that part of my personality and serve my country instead because I wasn't very accepting of myself.'
However, her service came to an end when Ms Riley was reported for being a lesbian by a colleague
Long before “don’t ask, don’t tell,” in an era spiked with Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism, the government and military systematically rooted out service members like James.
The anti-gay witch hunt ran parallel to fears of Communist infiltration. Wisconsin Republican Senator Joe McCarthy launched the “Red Scare” in 1950 when he publicly announced there were 205 Communists working at the State Department. Simultaneously, McCarthy also said there were 91 homosexuals within the same agency. As William N. Eskridge Jr. writes in his book “Dishonorable Passions,” there followed “a steady stream of bipartisan rhetoric associating homosexuality with Communism: both were secretive, worldwide coalitions of aliens scheming to destroy America and undermine family values.”
The military ran deep within the family. James’s great-grandfather was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War.
This cat helped popularize what we now know as organic food decades before ot became mainstream, but of course not surprisingly, like most things relating to the Islamite generation & cultural movement, it has been erased, edited & excised from history.
Frankly one could make a good argument for Carver, through his educational initiatives, not only being one of the grandfathers of the Civil Rights Movement, but also a founder, if not THE FOUNDER, of the modern day organic farming cultural movement.
Of course this will be downplayed & denied by the propaganda wing of the trans-national neo-nazi cartels, the multi-national fascist/corporatists; the descendants of them & their coloured concubines; & their slaver sidekicks from the man-children.
Some info about the crusade against pre-Hispanos/conquistadores culture in what is now as Greater Mehico: from the southwestern portion of the Union of Amerigo to the Canal region before one encounters the Indio Bozales Moviemto of the Andean & Amazonian regions.
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But even as early Spanish priests and missionaries sought to quash the spiritual practices of African and Indigenous peoples, some rituals survived, often by being absorbed into the Church’s observances.
Again, this cat can be considered not only as a, if not, THE, grandfather of the civil rights movement due to his educational initiatives (though truth be told the denizens of the confederate cultural milieu [regardless of colour] squandered most of the opportunities they were given & proceeded to trash the place & tear everything apart [many of their communities have yet to recover 'til this day] once the Lash was removed from the share-cropping south); this cat was also a Founding Father of the modern day organic culinary cultural movement.
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The answer reveals the true reason for his passion and how a man born into slavery in the 1860s predicted some of the agricultural concerns we have today — almost 75 years after his death.
All this makes it reasonable to call Carver, as Burchard does, an "organic agricultural pioneer," who believed in small, sustainable farms over giant operations. This favored both the land — he was an active conservationist — and small farmers.
Like an organic farmer today, in 1908, Carver voiced his skepticism of the overuse of commercial fertilizer, which provided short-term gains but in the long term could release dangerous chemicals into the soil (which early fertilizers did), erode the soil's quality by drying it out, and create runoff.
And yet, there were activists advocating for LGBTQ Americans decades before the gay liberation movement of the 1960s. This history has been largely forgotten, because their work was tied to a radical social movement critiquing capitalism.
Thanks to the Cold War and the “Red Scare,” gay rights activists made a calculated decision in the 1950s to cut ties with this movement and to purge this history from the story of the fight for LGBTQ rights.
One reason that leftists — communists, socialists, anarchists and labor organizers especially — concerned themselves with sexual politics was because radicals often found themselves in shared urban spaces with gay men and lesbians, notably local YMCAs and public parks.
Betty Millard described her shared passions for radicalism and same-sex intimacy in her diary. “Socialism & sex is what I want all right,” she wrote in 1934.
The Cold War’s impact on LGBTQ Americans is often remembered through the lens of the “lavender” scare that purged gay employees from the U.S. State Department.
Full incorporation into mainstream American life became their primary goal.
That’s because the powerful effects of McCarthyism continue to shape which stories get told and whose lives are remembered.
As I have mentioned before the Islamite generation, Elijah's generation was not only heavily syncretic with Hoodoo but also the jazz cultural community movement.
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