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Casey Cep
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January 10 - January 23, 2021
We are bound by a common anguish. —Harper Lee
humankind had come to understand nature as its enemy in what the philosopher William James called, approvingly, “the moral equivalent of war.”
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bigamy,
Read as "bigotry" 🤦
“Our local Nordics have a mass psychosis, too,” wrote Langston Hughes: “As the Hitlerites treat the Jews, so they treat the Negroes, in varying degrees of viciousness.”
inspired by Rosa Parks,
I have to assume the author knows the real story here.
help alleviate those debts that Mary Lou had gone to work
All of that debt must have been stressful on her.
legitimate
Legitamize?
if anyone was going to end the Maxwells’ marriage, it would not be her.
GIRRRL, why NOT??
Mary Lou had been beaten to death,
JEEZ.US. The level of utter savagery.
Like more than a few preachers’, they learned, his private life bore little resemblance to the one his parishioners thought he was living, and no resemblance at all to those he extolled in his sermons.
If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-for-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone. (The hortatory name had been given to him by his father, the millenarian preacher Praise God Barebone.)
WTF is this mess??
when a particular person lost his virginity—or,
You could buy insurance policies for others' virginity??
if a well-known cross-dressing French diplomat
was biologically a man o...
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And how did they expect to find this out??
John Graunt,
Father of Actuarial Science?
the son of a one-armed police chief
Dorcas Anderson.
W...T...F...she KNEW he did it!!
the convenient timing of Abram’s death that made people suspicious.
Driving a Nash that she called Sassy Susie and carrying a chrome-plated pistol in her suitcase,
Oh, Zora 💞
Mouths don’t empty themselves unless the ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
bringing a gift of three snake skins, draining the blood of one of her fingers into a cup with the blood of five other novitiates, and helping to slaughter a black sheep.
Illinois,
We have/had Voodoo in IL??
dragon’s blood, goofer dust,
Tell.me.more.
Is "goofer dust" like "the devil's dandruff?"
indigestion to infertility.
It'd be grest to knock both of those out with a single dose of drahon's blood!
The healing aspects of voodoo were essential for a population routinely unable to access health care because of their race, socioeconomic standing, or distance from doctors and hospitals;
tell-all-and-invent-some.
banshees in Ireland or fairy glens in Scotland or the ghosts and goblins of the Tohoku region of Japan,
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a court-case candle or used law-stay-away oil;
he helped look after her two boys and went through the legal process of adopting them.
Awww....wait, no. Insurance. 🤦
Alabama governor George Wallace was shot and paralyzed from the waist down
Did not know this!
for the past forty years the federal government had knowingly deceived hundreds of impoverished black sharecroppers participating in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, taking notes and withholding treatment as many of them sickened and died.
Despicable
their seven-year-old, six-year-old, and four-month-old sons.
Oh man. The 1st two barely knew their father, the 3rd one's bio father murders is mother, and now all 3 will either barely or not remember their mother. Tragic.
glycols,
Antifreeze?
but because that bone can also be damaged during autopsies, the authorities rejected it as a cause of death.
Is there a reason they don't x-ray the body, specifically the hyoid bone, before autopsy??
declare that Dorcas Maxwell had died from natural causes.
Just when I was going to doubt Maxwell's intelligence, the sly mofo pulls this.
succumbed to acute respiratory distress.
On the floor of her car??
The Andersons had also taken out mortgage insurance, which covered the thirteen thousand dollars still owed on their house, which now passed to the Reverend through the survivorship estate.
Man he knows all the angles!
mucus plugs.
Thought those were only for pregnancy. 🤷
In addition to his legal practice, Fred Gray served in the Alabama House of
Representatives, one of the first black legislators since Reconstruction.
Dude. This guy is a force to be reckoned with. Just wish the wasn't defending a murderer.
Racial bias was ubiquitous in the insurance industry.
GROSS. 😠
Some companies simply refused to insure black lives at all.
Jeez.us. It's the 70s!!
Philip Roth,
the discriminatory actions of insurance companies not only depleted blacks of their current wealth but deprived future generations of the financial benefits burial insurance and life insurance provided for whites: a safety net, a leg up, an inheritance.
Never mind that their client was possibly the least likely poster boy for civil rights in the entire African American population of Alabama.
“I always said I wasn’t worried because I had insurance on him.”
1976,
“There will be no
evidence,”
OK, so lawyer os fine being complicit??
This murderous SOB -killed his own nephew in cold blood.
Ophelia Maxwell had been calling around to various relatives trying to get James’s Social Security number.
Oh she knew. Completely complicit or a murderer (murderess?) herself.
