My gift to you today:
An obituary for George Johnson, who was born the son of a Mississippi sharecropper in 1927 and ended up taking his haircare company public on the American Stock Exchange.
Not sure any of us in business today can begin to imagine the barriers he and his wife had to overcome to build what they built.
Legend.
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@betsy2dre They don’t want to understand what the purpose of lobbyists are. If you’re an organic farmer and laws are being changed that effect you, you want to be able to get together with other farmers and explain to Congress what the implications are. We can’t selectively stop lobbying.
@maxkatz515 I can’t watch it again but if I remember he seemed to imply he had some super secret plan “to not just stand by silently” and I am really looking forward to being annoyed whatever distracting stunt he plans to do.
@groove_sdc Argentians in NY are the “snobbiest”. They detest that so much of Latin culture is definied by Mexican and Caribbean immigrants. The number of lectures I have received from them about their superior European culture….🙄
@magi_jay@TheSWPrincess I’ve never understood the “he’s hot” thing. If he’s your cup of tea that’s great but nothing about him is universally handsome. It’s a lot of try hard overwrought choices. A lot of expense for a not really great fit. The beard is poorly trimmed. He isn’t exactly Idris Elba.
@CitedNeed Smug. The whole movement is incredibly smug and sure they have won the hearts and minds and don’t even need to answer questions anymore. No matter the issue, how complex, how tragic, how heartbreaking…they will smirk and repeat their mantras.
Most primary schools do not appropriately prioritise the development of reading fluency (via scaffolded reading practice) and the development of mental arithmetic (via number fact automaticity allied to place value understanding) in their academic curriculum.
@maxdubler She thinks our urban policy needs to revolve around the people who warehouse their cars on the street for the occasional weekend trip. Those people need to rent a car and we shouldn’t do anything to encourage them to keep their cars.
@mirijoie@sarahlol1863603 This is a journalist who went out and researched who this person was and wanted to know why he was here and what he believed. It’s not a spokesperson for the Tourism Ministry. His job is to ask tough questions that he has spent researching.
Earl Lovelace, #Caribbean novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer, born 91 years ago today on 13 Jul 1935, in Toco, #TrinidadandTobago#EarlLovelace
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@maxkatz515 “Criticizing IL isn’t antisemitism”
Ok fair enough. What are your criticisms of its govt
“The whole country is evil and so is every person who lives there and also you for refusing to say that”
Ok yeah that’s pretty much what I expected.
@maxdubler Just like the pleas to stop gentrification…it’s a systems problem; it won’t be solved by trying to appeal to the conscience of individuals. If the housing is cheaper and available over there people will go….if the seat can recline and your neck is sore you will push the button.
Looking for a (relatively) quick and easy way to improve kids' reading comprehension at higher grade levels?
Try teaching them to understand complex sentence structure. A recent study suggests it can be powerful.
More in my new post:
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@constans Also a bunch of kids come out of the private school system and take the test. For families it is a a lottery win if they can stop paying for private for the high school years. Also everytime this comes up people fail to understand this at the NY State level to change this not NYC
@magi_jay I just keep saying the road to winning is not paved with telling women they are acting like HR ladies, Blacks to sit down and shut up and calling Jews baby killers. That is just a way to break up our coalition and make a certain group of white men very smugly satisfied losers.
@joeyjguarino Honestly it’s what they are thinking “Black people need sit down they had their turn and they are stupid they need to shut up and let us run this”. Frankly refreshing to just have him say it. This “we care about everyone” thing while they are thinking this feels like gaslighting.
@trouble_man90 Everytime they get called out for something (in this case him saying his opponent was incoherent and dumb) they immediately look for opportunities to reverse the victimhood. From now on they will rerun this play over claiming actually and we are the meanies and he is the victim🙄