I was born in Birmingham, AL less than a decade after it became ground zero for the civil rights movement (my mother was briefly a teacher at Parker HS during the short time we lived there).

It's actually hard to find a lot about Birmingham that happened my year, but I find myself drawn to the subject. For some reason something today urged me to have another look.

I found two separate newspaper clippings digitized at the Birmingham Public Library - one before and one after I was born (12/4) - about the really great "Black Christ" stained-glass mosaic at the 16th St Baptist Church, bombed in 1963:

https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll2/id/618/rec/1

https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll2/id/638/rec/1

Neat stuff! Not entirely sure of the context, and why these stories went up. I think there was some other rioty thing that was happening in the city at the time, so says my mother anyway.

Anyway I'm atheist but this is my heritage, so I can say I love the modern design with all the curves and the greatly more accurate depiction of jesus as not a white person.

#BirminghamAL #CivilRightsMovement #BlackChrist

Sometimes conspiracies are real and documented. I wonder if this has any ties to Epstein. This stuff is pretty wack. We’ve seen the results of all the shit they’ve pulled.

We Uncovered The Most Infamous Secret Society: And The Truth Is Shocking
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=unSBLkk2FKc

#MorePerfectUnion #WTF #Conspiracy #BohemianGrove

Secondhand Lions is the best Robert Duvall movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg

#robertduvall

We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping #GroceryPrices High

#MorePerfectUnion

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=odhVF_xLIQA

Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” eg “cheaper” imprisoned workers

Free Alabama Movement: #incarceratedworkers across #Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor #exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨

Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:

https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=DEJZW842TC&cjevent=21214e4a07a011f1815e00620a82b832#khgVamQT9n9W

https://www.redbubble.com/i/samsung-case/The-Riverfront-Sweet-Tea-Party-by-kodiakj77/150603289.LGDWM

#meme #funnymemes #tumblrmemes #dankmemes #lolmemes #funny #humor #haha #funnyshit #lol #sales #artwork #artforsale #art #myart #digitalart #redbubble #teepublic #artforsale #myart #digitalart #artistsontumblr #alabama #dock #discrimination #socialissues #privilege #boat #yacht

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.

If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures."

- David Graeber

Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films.

What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.