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Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.

A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.

Among Johnson's notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.

An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, "With my non-violent .38 special."

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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[–] HighOnCopium@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Needs more footnotes.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

check my post history for the ultimate weirdo federated take: "The fact that you can tell there is a moral difference between the IRA and ISIS is a sign of your autism".

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

What does this MEAN

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[–] milistanaccount09@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"My gender? It's whatever my wife wants me to be, hah hah!" grillman

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

oh shit tomorrow is the 11th isaac-pog

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[–] Othello@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

woke up and felt the need to cry about the fall of the soviet union.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Oh my bad I thought catcalling is when you try to attract women by going "pspspspsps"

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

I'm upset when the treats suck because the treats are the "well, you can't have a family or a community or stability or health or a planet that isn't dying, but here is a video game" and then the treats still suck so you can't even have a distraction from hellworld because they're enshittifying entertainment, literally there is a strike now because studios don't want to pay labor at all.

I hate it here.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it just me or has American media literacy gotten noticeably worse lately? I find that talking to them about media topics is more headache inducing than it used to be. Even stuff in meme format seems to fly over their heads and you have to painstakingly explain the meanings of basic themes or narratives to them.

I find similar problems with other countries but Americans have been the most consistent with it and the most smug about their wrong assertions.

[–] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've found the whole idea of theme is lost on most folks I talk to. Everything is surface level. There cannot be underlying meaning to anything, if there is it's deceptive propaganda. I've heard the generalization lately that Americans have a certain attitude of anxiety or desperation.

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[–] DoghouseCharlie@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've solved the homeless problem! I've given free clothes to all homeless people. How does that solve anything? All the clothes were nazi uniforms; funny pinwheels, spooky skulls, the works! Now the US government is dumping billions into helping the homeless.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I reported my communist friend for potentially being a political extremist to the FBl and now they're armed for free thanks to the ClA

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Told coworkers I survived COVID and they looked at me like I grew a second head, said "it took you this long to catch COVID??" like I was behind the times or some shit. A handful of them cough constantly. Nobody wears a mask. They're basically extremely proud of how little they care about COVID anymore.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Surprised they didn't say something like "So what, I've had Covid 3 times already" smuglord

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This mixed race lady proff being super weird and orientalist about China and the DPRK in a class where they teach you not to do orientalism

yea

stalin-shining

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

geordi-no Institutional Racism πŸ˜’

geordi-yes Intersectional Racism 😍

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The student most comfortable with being openly racist out of all my students my whole career wanted to grow up to be a pig lol can't make this shit up

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

galaxy-brain give him straight A grades so the police academy will turn him down

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

it is september 10 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who is Michael Transaction and why is he ruining all these games

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Mike Roe Transaction

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It would be very funny if someone designed a surface to air missile that doesn't hit it's target and doesn't explode, but instead flies alongside it's target and deploys one of those wavy rubber used car lot guys.

The terror of seeing a missile streak towards you but instead of dying, it just deploys a wacky inflatible tube person to taunt you out the window.

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

calling the police to report that a thuggish man keeps knocking on my door every month demanding thousands of dollars and if I don't pay he's going to send his armed band of thugs to throw me out of the house

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

unfortunately the police are on the landlords' side.

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[–] VHS@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i forgot to get more sports drink mix at the store so i had the "bright idea" of just mixing sugar and salt into my water bottle. yeah, it tasted like cum. highly unpleasant, i was regretting it for hours :bern-disgust:

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

it tasted like cum. highly unpleasant

skill issue

stalin-bummed one of those days ya know?

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm sorry to tell you this, but you've diagnosed with normal. I know this is hard to hear, take all the time you need.

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[–] milistanaccount09@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

"To be an enemy of Hexbear can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

no really sure what to make tomorrows mega about, i made it about allende the last year so i dont want to repeat, im between making it about an spanish anarchist or another well known character in chapo lore

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

my-hero Introducing.... the Hyperthread

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Damn, going through the original Gundam shows, on Zeta rn, and I wish people had told me before how political this was.

And I dont mean like, oh this has an IRL political point to make, but that the shows themselves feature a lot of politics to frame and lead the stories, I love that shit. Can't stand IRL political dramas cause so many of them are just reinforcing real world hegemony, but fictional political dramas fuck so hard to me.

Edit: Also I fucking love Kai so much, guy decides that he's too much of a coward to keep piloting mechs so instead he decides to become a freelance investigative journalist against the fascist government, what a king.

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

finally beat Disco Elysium

I hated getting softlocked but it was gripping

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What does it mean if I wanna be a girl but still really like the vibe of being my dad's "son"

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good morning, death to Amerika mao-wave

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Working on a heist movie with Bethesda. In it the protagonist clips through the world and steals from the chest underneath the vendors.

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