~JUNETEENTH A FAMOUS CELEBRATION SINCE c.1865 IN TEXAS~

CONTRARY to what the 45th President of America in 2020 says_that HE made June 19th Famous; it was President Abraham Lincoln 16th President of America in 1863 that freed the Slaves. It was NOT until 1865 that the Slaves of Texas got that message they were FREE! Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.IT IS NOW A WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION.IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THE HISTORY OF ALL MANKIND.

For further Knowledge...this Link will help...https://www.history.com/juneteenth 

Martha and Pinkie Yates in a buggy decorated for the annual Juneteenth celebration in front 319 Robin St. in the Fourth Ward (c.1895-1905). Courtesy of Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public  

Early Celebrations 

May31-June 1,1921*** ~Remembering Greenwood Oklahoma Massacre of an All Black Community~

           ~FLASHBACK~ 

In these days of Social-Distancing, a Friend CHALLEGED me to list the top 10 Albums that influenced my taste in Music. My First thought_well this SHOULD be a piece of Cake. Wrong! Today was Day 9. I posted: 

DAY 9 Album Challenge...The Gap Band...The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band consisted of three brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson; and it was named after streets (Greenwood, Archer, and Pine = GAP)_ in the historic ~GREENWOOD~ neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. GREENWOOD WAS BURNED DOWN BY WHITE PROTESTORS May 31 & June 1, 1921, when mobs of WHITE RESIDENTS attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Early in the Morning" was my Exercise Routine dance song of which I still remember the moves! 

                                                     OFFICIAL VIDEO...1982
Note: I love the girl in Yellow Exercise tights...that would be me. lol 

Anyway...
It dawned on me that 99 years ago TODAY...May31-June 1,1921 _A White MOB burned down Greenwood Black Community. The event remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, and one of the least-known: News reports were largely squelched, despite the fact that hundreds of people were killed and thousands left homeless. 

  

BACKSTORY:
On May 30, 1921, a young black teenager named Dick Rowland entered an elevator at the Drexel Building, an office building on South Main Street. At some point after that, the young white elevator operator, Sarah Page, screamed; Rowland fled the scene. The police were called, and the next morning they arrested Rowland.......AFTERMATH...In the hours after the Tulsa Race Massacre, all charges against Dick Rowland were dropped. 

For decades, there were no public ceremonies, memorials for the dead or any efforts to commemorate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921. Instead, there was a deliberate effort to cover them up.

The Tulsa Tribune removed the front-page story of May 31 that sparked the chaos from its bound volumes, and scholars later discovered that police and state militia archives about the riot were missing as well. As a result, until recently the Tulsa Race Massacre was rarely mentioned in history books, taught in schools or even talked about. Source:https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre

Further Sources: James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

Scott Ellsworth, “Tulsa Race Riot,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
1921 Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa Historical Society & Museum.
Nour Habib, “Teachers talk about how black history is being taught in Oklahoma schools today,” Tulsa World (February 24, 2015).
Sam Howe Verhovek, “75 Years Later, Tulsa Confronts Its Race Riot,” New York Times (May 31, 1996).

FAST FORWARD MAY 2020 

George Floyd: US cities brace for new protests after another night of violence....

George Floyd protests spread globally while China reacts.... 

But, this says it all (Quote)... 

Hua Chunying, a "Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman", pointed out America’s racial unrest by tweeting ~“I can’t breathe,”~ which Floyd said before his death. 

All this + COVID-19 PANDEMIC..."I Can't Breathe" either. Guess, I just listen to the GAP BAND...sigh!

How I Spent MY Summer of 2018_"On the Trail of Spies, Colluders,Offshore Banking,Espionage Russian -Style".

AND....

An EPIC Summer of....
Suspense,Intrigue,Trickery,Art of the Deal(aka lies),Frame-ups, Conspiracy theories,Collusion,War of Words,etc..! 

NOPE,I'm not talking about the Headline News.All from the writings of "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold...John le Carre'.
  

John le Carre',aka_David John Moore Cornwell.

An British Author..Extraordinaire! During the 1950's and 1960's, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence service in the UK.His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time Author. 

In his novels you're getting a glimpse into an occupation that begs to meme present day Headlines.

I chose these books for Summer 2018:

1. Absolute Friends 

                           "Absolute Friends"is almost autobiographical. 

John Le Carre' was an agent of the Cold War Espionage team UK.

International espionage that spans the lives of two friends from the not-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and uncertain new alliances that aren't always what they seem to be. 


2. Single & Single 

This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son. Carre' knows this territory better than anyone else as he lived it in Real Time as a agent. 


3.Our Kind of Traitor  

Not only did I read this book by I purchased the movie.EXCELLENT. 

Big-Time Money Launderer_Dima_ is ready to rat out the Russian Criminal Brotherhood.compatriots and expose CORRUPTION throughout the so called legitimate financial and Political Worlds. 

4.The Constant Gardener 

Yet another movie by the same title I purchased.Vaguely based upon a story that played out in Nigeria. 


Tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing there is something behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth and finds an "International" conspiracy of corrupt Bureaucracy and Pharmaceutical money.A brutal & unfortunate look into how Pharmaceutical Corporations use poor people in Africa as guinea pigs for Drugs that are NOT approved for Human use & the profits by the Shareholders & Executives made thereof. 

Here are the remaining Books to be read.It will finish out this web of  "BIG LIES & SPIES"!


5.The Tailor of Panama 

Panama—the young country of 2.5 million souls which, on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal—is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption.For what is a tailor for, if not to disguise reality with appearance? What is truth if not the plaything of the artist? And what are spies and politicians and journalists if not themselves selectors and manipulators of the truth for their own ends?

6.The Night Manager 

The movie was GREAT! Now for the read.


Espionage novel published in 1993. Le Carre' first post-Cold War novel, detailing an undercover operation to bring down a major international arms dealer.It is an unholy alliance operation between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade.  

7.A Legacy of Spies 

This is his latest published in September 2017.Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. 

 Indeed...my Summer of 2018 has given me an insight to the real workings behind many of the "Headline News"stories of today. I like the fact it's written by someone who in fact was part of the Secret Service of the UK. I can't imagine that he does NOT have knowledge of some of the twist and turns of these Criminals that have perpetrated these scenarios again & again_continuing the traditions today.

What began as 

                    A Dossier  

With many,many....

And always money under the table....

Offshore accounts and..

FAKE...

Undercover Operatives with "Fake"Intel...

HEADLINE NEWS...

ENDS up with this....

More importantly....

Nope...so until COMPLETION of Reading & Investigating....I am in a STATE OF DOWNLOADING...

BREAKING NEWS:Secret Affair made PUBLIC

A Confession by The Sage Book Whisperer

I've been thinking about this for some time. I decided to come clean about my Secret Affair.It began very innocently_don't they all. I admired them from a distant_not wanting to get close_for I knew I'd give in to the lure of Love.Yes,LURE,something that tempts or attracts with promise of pleasure or reward. I knew in my Heart that this would be a....

For years I'd instructed the Universe to pay $130,000 per year to keep them quiet.I never signed the Confidentially Agreement....NOT binding,Right? I had been "colluding" for many years with others.My European Connection was through Germany.My German Friends visited in 2016 and caught me in the act.....they wanted to join in this affair as well. So,I sent them "SEED" money and a Dossier of a timeline...I'd been exposed! They deposited my SEED money & Dossier in  a safe on one of their trips Offshore.This is "suppose"to be the most secretive way for safe keeping and Future Investments. They are filed in said "OFFSHORE" Country under Dossier "BLAUBONNETS".

I was intercepted by my Husband _Special Counsel,John Mac-KILT-US_who found out what was going on while he tended his MAC-Cact-Us one day...so I was BUSTED! 

~John Mac-Kilt-Us standing by his Mac-Cact-Us & Mac-Ant-Us Beds~

The Legend of my Affair was Secret no more! For years I'd secretly "grabbed" them by the stem,smelled them,kissed them_they never seemed to mind. BUT_never did I lay with them. I knew better because there could be SNAKES leaking information. They have never failed me even through "STORMY" Texas weather. NOW, the Storm clouds are rolling in...

...so,I might have to change to Orange is the New Blue. 

Texas Bluebonnets and Indian Paint Wildflowers 

Texas Bluebonnets & Maroon Bluebonnets.Yes they come in that color also! 

There you have it,I'm in LOVE with "Lupinus Subcarnosus" aka Texas Bluebonnets!The State Flower of Texas as designated in 1901.Bluebonnets are not just the state flower _Texas has also designated an official Bluebonnet Tartan Bluebonnet City & Trail in (Ennis ,Texas)Bluebonnet Festival in Chappell  Hill,Texas and  a Bluebonnet Flower Song. 

To my surprise and delight...the Bluebonnet has YET another History.The Bluebonnet was a woolen hat dating back to the 15th Century.It was the customary working wear of Scottish Laborers and Farmers.During the 18th Century the Bonnet was,to outsiders,the most readily identifiable Scottish piece of clothing.The Tartan would occupy this role in the following centuries. It was associated with the Scottish Lowlands where it was sometimes called the "scone cap". 

The Jacobite rising of 1745 or 'The '45' ."The Year of Charles") refers to the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart , also known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "the Young Pretender" to regain the British throne for the House of Stuart. It was the last of a series of rebellions that began in 1689 with further revolts in 1708, 1715 and 1719. 

"45" LOST BATTLE TO TAKE OVER THE THRONE....how Poetic for #45 Today....Ye Ole Pretender.

                    Bluebonnets in Scotland 
More information on Scotland's Bluebonnet 
can be found here:  
 https://www.agleninscotland.scot/blog-posts/2017/5/8/bluebells-and-bluebonnets-the-flowers-of-scotland-and-texas 

My Story has been told.I'm feeling pretty good to get that off my chest.However,I continue to photograph My Dearest Bluebonnets Daily.The BACKGROUND photo & the other two photos came from my File of Bluebonnet.What started as a couple seeds about 3 years ago...has taken ROOT_here at Aaron's Hilltop Farm.Here's a few others...

"IT IS WHAT IT IS"_NO PLACE ELSE BUT!