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Book Review - Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

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Shane McCrae is the son of a white woman and a black man. In order to save Shane from the indignity and evils of being reared by his father, his mother’s parents kidnapped him when the boy was three years old. Surprisingly–but perhaps not given she was abused by her father as a child–his mother did nothing to intervene as her white supremacist parents took him to Texas and reared them as their own son. Yet his grandparents must have been afraid his mother would at some point try to stop them or find the boy, for they threatened to leave the country and prevent her from ever seeing Shane again if she did. It is a miracle that as racist as his grandparents were, McCrae never feels ashamed of his blackness. Indeed, he holds onto it, possibly because it is the one thing he knows is his.

Busting Myths - Columbus, Ohio: Lost and Forgotten, Even at Home?

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Suggestion to Ohio State University:

To pay for owing the former basketball coach $13 million  for firing him with years remaining on his contract (and not waiting a few weeks until the season ends), sell the president’s house in Bexley. This is the most distant from campus presidential residence in the United States. Top Gun Carter can move into University Square South, near his office, across the street from the campus itself.

In so doing, OSU would follow the lead of the New School for Social Research in New York City, multiple campuses of the City University of New York, and others: all to meet university debt.

Follow the lead, Bucks.

Fourteenth largest city in the US, endlessly touted from New Albany—from which Columbus is actually governed--through Bexley to Westerville, Worthington, and Dublin, Ohio, all outside the city’s borders—to City  Council, the “mayor’s” office, and the so-called media from the non-news, non-daily USA Today/Gannett outlet to NPR’s WO-SU, Fox, and Sinclair Broadcasting: Columbus, Ohio, is now a big city.

No one can find it.

A Mindful Evening at Four Seasons City Farm

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Tuesday, February 20, 7-9pm
Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden Rd, Columbus

Join Jesse Powers and Jessie Alianiello for an evening of nourishing conversation and music!

7pm to 8pm Jessie Alianeillo will begin the evening hosting a discussion on Mindfulness

8pm to 9pm Jesse Powers will sing you spiritual lullabies to prepare you for your nighttime dreams!

Come and get cozy and connected with us!

NOTE: **Enter through the rear door**

BYOB
Bring food, order pizza, whatever you'd like!
We are hosting this event at the Presbyterian Church, so let's leave it the way we found it.

Suggested Donation: $10
Cash, Venmo, Paypal, Cashapp
If you don't have it, come anyway! We want you to be there!

Seized money gets donated to Emerge

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XENIA — It’s not every day that Greene County Prosecutor David Hayes gets to take money seized by the police from local criminal enterprises and put it towards good causes in the community. 

When he does, however, he said he wants to make sure it ends up in the right hands. 

Prosecutor Hayes was on-site at Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative on Monday for a tour and a check presentation to the local faith-based nonprofit, which recently opened the first treatment center of its kind in the world. Emerge is located at the former Greene County Career Center, at 2960 W. Enon Road in Xenia Township. 

Of the approximately $60,000 in money seized by Greene County law enforcement in 2023, ten percent went to Emerge. Staff members were also on site to give the prosecutor a tour of the facility and the men's recovery housing area, which opened last summer and now houses dozens of men who are learning vocational skills to re-enter society in long-term recovery as productive members of the community. 

Nancy Pelosi Is Pressing Charges Against Peace Activists

Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.

Heather Phipps is being represented in court by civil rights attorney Walter Riley. She allegedly splashed washable red paint on Pelosi’s garage door last week. A few drops of the paint accidentally got on a policeman’s uniform. The Pelosis are claiming that the damage to their garage door exceeds $400, and thus Heather committed a felony. The drops of paint on the policeman’s uniform are being used to also charge her with battery. Meanwhile Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator for CODEPINK in the Bay Area, is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly leaving red handprints on the garage door. The washable paint was completely washed off by evening.

Sara's Song: Chapter 24

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Do I Want to Know

 

I was waiting anxiously for Jean to come home from school. Mr. Jimmy had beaten her home, and I was staying quiet in my room because I didn’t want to speak with him yet. Finally, she came bouncing in the room and I jumped up from the bed to greet her.

“Wait until you see what I found today!”

“Wait until I put my books down. Why you leave school early again?” Jean dropped her books on the dresser top and flopped down on her bed.

“I wasn’t feeling good.”

“You just didn’t want to take that English test. Stop lying.”

“If you already knew, why ask me?  Look at what I found!”

“What you find?”

“A picture in Mr. Jimmy’s room.”

“What! No, you didn’t go into his room when he wasn’t home!” Jean jumped up from the bed.

“Keep your voice down, he’s home now. He left his door unlocked so I just went in and looked around and found this picture.”

 I pulled out the picture from under my pillow and gave it to Jean, who looked at it for a few seconds, and then handed it back to me.

“It’s a picture of Mr. Jimmy when he wasn’t fat. So what?”

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