Kenn Mullen

I Am. Yoḥännǝs ፫ :፲፮ Bimble With A Good Stick. 2021 Solo Herf Champ.Tuscaloosian/Black Warrior.Funk Banjoist-Pluviophile.Afar v’eyfer
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[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

Trump: How we got here. Northern siblings ceded power to their southern brothers by turning a blind eye to a fearful south assuring a legacy of oppression upon Black lives.

Voter suppression & partisanship: A look at the 1876 election https://t.co/2vttg1qiT5 via @YouTube

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill

Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were https://t.co/TsXeU4KzYN

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@michaelharriot I see another grifter. He was a seller of whitewashing.

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@curiosityonx Oh. Thanks. Now you post this! Where were you 8 million light years ago? Hmph?

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@ProjectLincoln Without offering for sale a product or service, at this rate of a theft and begging this guy might just become an actually billionaire !

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

Why are Gen Xers are angry?
https://t.co/uJO21ksFIG

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

A graffiti written in 1529 CE, in the Italian town of Ascoli Piceno;

Who can, doesn't want to,
Who wants to, can't,
Who knows how, doesn't act,
Who acts, doesn't know how,
And that's how the world gets worse

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

John J. Smith was a barber, abolitionist, & state legislator in Massachusetts. He & others worked to desegregate Boston schools in the 1840s & 50s; his daughter, Elizabeth Smith, was the 1st Black teacher appointed to teach in an integrated school in Boston in the 1870s.

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Everything. Defining it reduces it to nothing

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Elderly French couple lose rare African mask case worth millions https://t.co/9Ucp0F3pPD

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

The Jones family helped found Biscayne National Park & preserve the Florida Keys. Israel from NC & Mozelle from Bahamas met in Miami, began purchasing & farming land in the Keys in 1897. Their son, Lancelot, sold their 277 acres to national park rather than to developers in 1970.

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@EmansReviews He has a point. That Majors ran is a good thing. Sadly, he didn’t keep running. Should’ve gotten a hotel room for a week or two, in another city. #wisecounsel

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

The recent @usedgov & @USDA acknowledgement of HBCU “underfunding” is misleading. For 133 yrs, states ILLEGALLY funneled billions of HBCU funds to predominantly white institutions

The Historically White Heist: How America Illegally Looted HBCUs

@thegrio

https://t.co/B6NLPllUGF

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@UnSportsESPN Canty. Spatial awareness m. When four people are walking shoulder to shoulder towards me and the sidewalk accommodates only four people! As if I am gonna walk in the gutter Amir cling to the wall like Spider-Man to allow the to pass!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mum Bett was one of the first enslaved black American to sue for freedom and win in Massachusetts. As a free woman she took up the name Elizabeth Freeman.

She was W.E.B Du Bios great grandmother.

Her case served as precedent in the state that brought an end to the practice of slavery in Massachusetts.

Freeman's real age was never known, but an estimate on her tombstone puts her age at about 85. She was buried in the Sedgwick family plot in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She died in 1829.

Freeman was among the first enslaved black Americans in Massachusetts to file a "freedom suit" and win in court under the 1780 constitution, with a ruling that slavery was illegal. Her county court case, Brom and Bett v. Ashley, decided in August 1781, was cited as a precedent in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appeal review of Quock Walker's "freedom suit". When the state Supreme Court upheld Walker's freedom under the constitution, the ruling was considered to have informally ended slavery in the state.

LIFE & TRIAL:
Elizabeth Freeman was illiterate and left no written records of her life. Her early history has been pieced together from the writings of contemporaries to whom she told her story or who heard it indirectly, as well as from historical records.

Freeman was born into slavery about 1742 at the farm of Pieter Hogeboom in Claverack, New York, where she was given the name Bett. When his daughter Hannah married John Ashley of Sheffield, Massachusetts, Hogeboom gave Bett, then in her early teens, to them. She remained with them until 1781, during which time she married and had a child, Betsy. Her husband (name unknown, marriage unrecorded) never returned from service in the Revolutionary War.

Throughout her life, Bett exhibited a strong spirit and sense of self. She came into conflict with Hannah Ashley, who was raised in the strict Dutch culture of the New York colony. In 1780, Bett prevented Hannah from striking her daughter Betsy with a heated shovel, but Elizabeth shielded her daughter and received a deep wound in her arm. As the wound healed, Bett left it uncovered as evidence of her harsh treatment.

Soon after the Revolutionary War, Freeman heard the constitution read at Sheffield and these words:

“ All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." —Massachusetts Constitution, Article 1.

Bett sought the counsel of Theodore Sedgwick, a young abolition-minded lawyer, to help her sue for freedom in court. Sedgwick willingly accepted her case. He enlisted the aid of Tapping Reeve, the founder of America's first law school, located at Litchfield, Connecticut.

The case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley was heard in August 1781 before the County Court of Common Pleas in Great Barrington. Sedgwick and Reeve asserted that the constitutional provision that "all men are born free and equal" effectively abolished slavery in the state. When the jury ruled in Bett's favor, she became the first African-American woman to be set free under the Massachusetts state constitution.

The court assessed damages of thirty shillings and awarded her compensation for their labor.

After the ruling, Bett took the names Elizabeth Freeman.

LEGACY:
The decision in the case of Elizabeth Freeman was cited as precedent when the State Supreme Judicial Court heard the appeal of Quock Walker v. Jennison. Walker's freedom was upheld. These cases set the legal precedents that ended slavery in Massachusetts. Vermont had already abolished it explicitly in its constitution.

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[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@karenhunter This tells you who and where their constituents are. Map it

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Netflix CEOs: $51M & $50M
Nexstar CEO: $39M
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO: $39M
Comcast CEO: $32M
Paramount CEO: $32M
Walt Disney CEO: $24M
AMC: $24M
Fox Corp CEO: $22M

These studio executives can afford to pay their writers.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Georgetown University and the Jesuits are donating $27 million to descendants of enslaved people sold in 1838! The 272 enslaved people were sold from Jesuit plantations. Today, the school plans to donate over $1 billion to support anti-racism efforts! https://t.co/aChaTBp245

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@EmansReviews Jedi s of every earth s ethnicity should appear. How is that nearly, If not all, powerful persons in an ENTIRE galaxy is European? A people who are less that 10% of earths population. Oh yeah. European, Australian New Zealand markets.

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@EmansReviews How does one redeem Black Hitler? The solo lead African American. Who apologetically killed a sister. If you bring him back, redeem him and make him the defacto , red white & blue panther with a panther for each nation in the African diaspora. Doesn’t have to be a panther.

[Kenn Mullen @IR0NLion]

@karenhunter Have B&W school pictures.