July 10, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Of particular importance to me, now that the confederate battle flag is coming down, is the revisionist history being taught not just in Texas but all over the South. Down with the War of Northern Aggression!
1I spent hours yesterday on Capitol Hill finally seeing the new visitors center and taking a tour like all the tourists do. Always wanted to do that! The visitors center is worth every damn nickel it required! Its very, very open with a great sight line everywhere in the hall where everyone gathers (Emancipation Hall). Exhibition Hall is hugely great! There are accessory facilities to one side (restaurant, gift shop, etc). The theatre where they show a 20 minute film called E pluribus unum is top notch. Anyone from a sesesh state or state of mind would loathe this film. It shows that no matter what we are one country and this is how we roll. Went home hot, tired, sweaty, feet like angry screaming watermelons but I saw the great rotunda between the two houses of Congress and several other areas. I am oddly refreshed and composed! I recommend this to anyone, even the guys in the Klown Kar! Especially them!
2I recollect reading a letter in a museum in Atlanta (I think) wherein after the Rebellion was quelled, a southern belle wrote to someone calling the 1861-1865 time period “the recent unpleasantness”. Gotta hand it to these traitors, some were quite literate.
3Hey Maggie! Just visiting or live here? Yes, the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center is really well done. I liked the models in the museum area which showed how D.C. grew over the years. I’ve lived here most of my life and while at the museum I had the opportunity to share with some school kids how the streets and avenues are named and how the city is divided into it’s four areas (NW, NE, SW, SE), etc. I was a bit bothered by how much they didn’t know but they were eager to learn and asked good questions. It was a good day.
4As for social studies, I grew up in Texas and was a good student, but I didn’t know what a lynching was till I was in graduate school. I was appalled at my ignorance and at the whitewashing of history.
5T-Rump has the bullhorn now and those little twerps in the Klown Kar are choking on their dog whistles. Might just be worth taping the first debate to capture screen shots of the finer moments. Extra points to Fox, if they place the podiums for T-Rump and the Outlaw Jersey Whale within striking distance of each other.
6JAK, living and working. My job often entails clients from out of town who have to make visits to Hill offices. I do the mapping and appointments etc. This has left me with very little personal time and ability to do why they do and see but yesterday took care of all that! My late husband had a slightly different take on E pluribus unum. He though E pluribus might be better known as how we are different and unum as how we are alike! Not bad for a boy from the very, very deep south and an immigrant family that once owned one slave.
7The “War Between the States” was often still referred to as “The Late Unpleasantness” 100 years later, when I was growing up in Georgia. [We called it “The War of Northern Aggression” when we were making fun of ourselves.] But I knew kids in grade school who talked as if they were still fighting it. And, of course, it was supposed to have been over “States Rights” (nevermind that the Right it was over was the “right” to own slaves).
Lynching, however, we knew about, even though our parents tried to protect us from that uglier side of human behavior. And of course my dad slept with a pistol under his pillow during the years the Klan was threatening our family because he was standing up against them.
I had really hoped we were beyond all that as a country….guess not…not yet.
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