On this day in 1967, the deadliest race riot of the "Long, Hot Summer of 1967" began when Detroit police raided an unlicensed drinking club that was celebrating the return of two veterans, arresting everyone present. The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 refers to just a few short months in which more than a hundred riots took place across the United States.
In the early hours of July 23rd, Detroit Police Department (DPD) officers raided an unlicensed weekend drinking club in the office of the United Community League for Civic Action. Expecting a few revelers inside, they instead found a party of 82 people celebrating the return of two local GIs from the Vietnam War. The police decided to arrest everyone present.
After the DPD left, a crowd of onlookers began looting an adjacent clothing store. Shortly thereafter, full-scale looting began throughout the neighborhood. This looting escalated into a city-wide uprising that involved shootouts between rioters and police officers.
The violence escalated throughout the next day, resulting in some 483 fires and 1,800 arrests. Thousands of guns were stolen from stores. Firefighters attempting to put out fires were shot at, police brutality was rampant. Even when thousands of federal troops were sent to occupy Detroit, the rioting could not be quelled until July 28th.
43 people were killed in total, most of whom were black. Among the dead was a four year old girl named Tanya Blanding, shot and killed by Sgt. Mortimer J. LeBlanc after he fired indiscriminately into her mother's apartment. LeBlanc was exonerated by the state.
The scale of the riot was the worst in the United States since the 1863 New York City draft riots during the American Civil War and was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later.
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Check in: 8 weeks sober, still kicking. I'm starting to be able to be around alcohol again (ie: going to shows) without drinking. It's difficult, but I need to do it, otherwise I'll turn into a hermit.
Once I hit 3 months, I'll probably switch this to a monthly thing.
Land acknowledgements are so weird. Especially when a part of the land acknowledgement is essentially "we're actually honoring native people with the current show/event, and I'm sure they'd want us to do the show. What? Of course we didn't consult any are you crazy, lmao".
There's no native people in the show, and it doesn't center or even discuss their struggles at all, for context.
They are; those shows that do have first nations performers here are usually a lot more aggressive with the "You rich bastards took our land and now we're gonna shove it in your face good and hard" prefaces.
Which I enjoy, it's pretty funny watching a bunch of boomer eastern suburbs types squirm because their night of high art is going off the rails.
Chasing my antidepressants with a fibre supplement.
Oh yeah it's elder millennial time
how do you politely tell someone you don't enjoy going out with them because you're a fucking miserable piece of shit and it just makes you more depressed to see normal people having a good time while you can barely hold yourself together?
Asking for a friend
Not really. I think the idea is for me to put myself out there but I'm terrible at that and my hearing sucks so the loud bars we go to don't help. I end up basically alone in a group of people I can't communicate with so I just drink and that just depresses me more.
Aww :(
I mean, it's up to you whether you feel up to engaging with them. But maybe try suggesting like...drinking and putt putt? Or an arcade? Small theme park? Something where you have a shared goal to keep your focus and maybe more open space for you to hear people would be ideal.
"Hey, I'm sorry, man. Depression is really kicking my ass these days, that's all. I don't really feel like I have the energy to go out."
It's very rude to start a new mega right after I post showing my whole ass about not knowing Irish history.
:angry-hex: i hate duolingo so much it has so many tiny problems that just pile up and never get fixed. like when you pick a word from an audio reading wrong you cant click on the words anymore to hear out the difference. or there are lessons with missing audio or bad translations that havent been fixed in 3+ years. 90% of the comments are useless complaints about a translation not being accepted. and comments are the only help you get for a sentence when there should be a list of all the grammer rules and vocab in it. and now they shut down all the comments and forums to save money so you cant even vent about this shit anymore.
i wish there was a open source version of it i know there is anki but anki has too many competing decks that are just massive and overlap and you need to spend a lot of time on them to see their problems
and its also not very guided. i wish there was just one big course that everyone contributed to to make a good one
also getting back into anki from a few missed days is just devastating and it feels like you never get back to 0 repetitions so i end up ditching itThe Department of Education should just have a language education program online.
Zanni.com or a simila rsite probably has them for wholesale price. I get mine from them for like 30-80 each.
Reconnected with an old friend of mine. He got married and had a kid. I'm the only one worried about the future.
Yeah its weird as fuck sometimes. Like the political climate and the climate climate are both obviously fucked, shits just falling apart and people are still living like its 1999.
Word. I'd never say it to anyone, but I want to know if they have taken the time to sit down and actually say to themselves "Your child will never be economically secure for their entire life while the world comes irreparably crashing down around them".
Lol buying Xinjiang cotton supports workers there I don't get how these people think.
"I know these people are suffering so I want these people to suffer so they RISE UP and then probably suffer even more yes this pleases me"
if mainstream media hasn't hammered it in the last three months, they've moved on
Hahaha I've always thought this exact same thing when I read it
Started watching the frog show :bottom-speak: I sure hope it doesn't have a dramatic and heartbreaking ending :side-eye-1: