On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
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Just so we're clear: the pregnancy that ends up in the wrong spot, like the fallopian tube? The one that will NEVER turn into a baby and will rupture and kill your wife, daughter, or sister? Terminating that fetus is also an abortion, and they want to ban those, too.
Christ is Risen, I agree, but some of you folks don't seem to understand what that means despite crosses in your bio. Christ was quite clear in his instructions: tend to the sick, house the unhoused, feed the hungry, be wary of wealth, reserve judgment and love and love and love.
True story.
So a father was asleep at home with his two kids, 1 & 3, when the police bust in the door around 4:30 a.m. Dad fires one shot at the door because he wakes up and just sees a guy in his house. Realizes after he shoots that it's a cop and puts the gun down.
when someone makes you feel safe. safe to express. safe to feel. safe to speak. safe to think. just safe. i love that. i love an emotionally validating human. i love an active listener. i love reciprocity.