by Dima Alzayat
Unless the army be placed on a better footing, it will disband; discharges are numerous, and no soldiers reenlist. The officers cannot subsist on the miserable pittance now allowed them; they should, upon principles of common justice, be placed on a footing with corresponding grades in the Navy. You, sir, will command their gratitude, and render an important service to the country, by taking the lead in this matter.
Assure the President that whatsoever promptness and energy can accomplish shall be done.
With high consideration and respect, I am, sir, your obedient servant,
TH. S. JESUP.
What happened to Pinson? #30096—07/15/13 01:37 PM
free56hunter
8 point
Registered: 11/18/09
Posts: 1785
Loc: Helena, AL So I know someone on here will be offended and call me racist but what happened to Pinson?? I had to take my daughter to a doctor there last night and we stopped to eat afterwards at a McDonalds and as a white man, I was the MINORITY. Before we even sat down, I heard two languages other than English and saw more hoodies than I could count. Nothing wrong with different colors or other races but the people I saw definitely wouldn’t have fit in the Pinson I remember as a kid.
Re: What happened to Pinson? [Re: free56hunter] #30125—07/15/13 02:08 PM
doehunter
12 point
Registered: 4/23/11
Posts: 359
Loc:ALABAMA The apartments they built there made it real easy for thugs to move in. Not to mention the MAJOR hispanic growth over the years and even more korean and chinese. Maybe others too but those are the ones you can tell. Thing is it’s not just Pinson. It’s everywhere!
Re: What happened to Pinson? [Re: free56hunter] #30125—07/15/13 02:08 PM
bh2000
14 point
Registered: 10/19/10
Posts: 15823
Loc: Anytown, USA 1. How many white people are having abortions?
2. How many blacks are having abortions?
3. How many Asians are having abortions?
4. How many Arabs are having abortions?
You get the idea. You have to ask yourself, since abortion/murder was legalized in the U.S. how has that affected the white population?
HALPATTER-MICCO (1836)
We faced a decision. Leave the country or fight for it. We fought. Osceola was to lead the attack against Fort King. Then he would return to help us fight soldiers approaching Wahoo Swamp from Fort Brooke. The negroes were armed and ready to fight with us. Our plan was to strike at the soldiers in the swamp. It was a safe place for us to retreat to if we lost.
When Osceola did not return, Jumper said he would lead. He would not force anyone to follow. At first light we left the swamp and approached the road. We took our positions and used pines and palmettos for cover. When the signal was given we aimed our rifles and shot dead half the white men. The half left rushed to fire cannonballs but they passed over our heads and when the smoke cleared we shot dead the men loading the cannons. They whooped and shouted and waved their swords these soldiers and officers but they had no gunpowder. At last we killed them all. The negroes stayed longer on the battlefield. They wanted to look at the dead men.
ADELE (1990)
I can hear her words so clearly my mother’s words I don’t know what they mean no matter how hard I listen how close they’re not my words I’ve carried them so long before I say them to Carine what do they mean she says no no little Adele Lily shouts them back to me the words tells Carine liar you know Samuel says shhh Lily slams opens door slams again over and over she says aren’t you dead yet aren’t you dead yet aren’t you dead yet Samuel begs stop she screams Sheriff says aren’t you dead yet aren’t you dead yet and I know she means my mother
TITLE: PSYCHIC P.I.
FORMAT: REALITY TELEVISION
EPISODE: AGENTS OF CHAOS
AIR DATE: FEB. 23, 2018
INT. LORRAINE AND MICHAEL’S DINING ROOM — DAY
The DETECTIVE sits across the table from MICHAEL and his wife LORRAINE.
DETECTIVE
Tell me about the strange things you’ve experienced here.
LORRAINE
At night, in bed, we hear sounds, like things are being knocked over, broken. But when we get up and check, everything’s fine.
MICHAEL
We’ve seen the outlines of people, dark outlines, shadow people. They weren’t violent at first, but lately, there’s been pushing, shoving, scratches we can’t explain.
INT. LIBRARY OFFICE — DAY
The DETECTIVE and a RESEARCHER sit at a table, examining documents.
DETECTIVE
You’ve looked into the history of my clients’ house. What did you find out?
RESEARCHER
This will be of interest to you. One of its longest inhabitants was a Lake City chief of police. Born in 1881, lived in the house until the 1940s.
DETECTIVE
What can you tell us about him?
RESEARCHER
He was really well liked mostly, that’s how he became chief. But he was also corrupt. His entire department was accused of running gambling houses, bootlegging, selling women into prostitution, that sort of thing.
INT. LORRAINE AND MICHAEL’S HOUSE — NIGHT
The house lights are off and the MEDIUM is illuminated by the camera light. We hear but cannot see the CAMERAMAN.
MEDIUM
I’m seeing an outline. He’s speaking to me but I can’t make out what he’s saying. Wait. Gosh, he’s saying a lot of racist things. Awful stuff.
CAMERAMAN
Racist about who?
MEDIUM
Um, about everyone. He’s just being really racist. He’s talking about things he used to do to people who pissed him off, things he’d get other men to do to them. Fighting and death, really bad things.
INT. LORRAINE AND MICHAEL’S DINING ROOM — DAY
The DETECTIVE, the MEDIUM, MICHAEL, and LORRAINE sit at a dining table.
DETECTIVE
Tell us your thoughts.
MEDIUM
This thing, I can’t say for certain what it is, but I would not call it a shadow person. I couldn’t get a sense of where it came from, a point of origin or anything like that, but it was racist. Most likely what you have on your hands here is a demon.
LORRAINE
I felt it. I felt that whatever it was, it was evil. Its outline was dark. Dark and black.
MEDIUM
Yes, that was what I felt also. Very dark, very black.
DETECTIVE
(To Lorraine and Michael)
Yesterday I met with a researcher who told me about a man who lived on your property over eighty years ago. He was a police chief, but he did a lot of bad things to people, some really terrible things.
(To Medium)
Could what you saw, this thing, have anything to do with that man?
MEDIUM
Definitely, yes. I think that demon, and I’m pretty certain that’s what it is, would have been here then, and it would have influenced that policeman to make bad decisions, to hurt other people. Demons are agents of chaos. They make people do bad things.
(To Lorraine)
The only way to cleanse this house now is to have this demon exorcised. A priest needs to come here, needs to exorcise the outside of your house and then do a blessing.
DETECTIVE
(To Medium)
And this will help them get rid of the negativity forever?
MEDIUM
(To Lorraine and Michael)
Yes, definitely. Things will get substantially better.
MICHAEL
This is great news.
Patient No. 34719
Location: Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA
Date of Transcript: Nov. 25, ’53
Date of Revision: Oct. 12, ’72
I must’ve been eleven, maybe twelve. My older brother Robert took me with him and by the time we got there they’d
already tied her by her feet to a branch. She was swinging and wailing and I’d seen a hungger hung like that once before but never a woman and I looked to Robert but he was already pushing against the crowd trying to get near the front. Everything smelled like gasoline then and everything does now. Gasoline everywhere and I don’t know why they still light candles in the hallways at night even though I’ve begged them not to and one day they’ll all go Poof! and learn when they become flames. She was swinging and wailing and one of Robert’s friends held a match to her dress and Poof! Ohhhhh, I kept looking, yes, why, why, why, why, why. He slashed her belly with a knife and I only saw it fall but I didn’t hear it cry but others said it did and they stomped ohhhhh but I was far back in the crowd thank God and couldn’t see thank God, god, god. Bang bang bang bang bang so many guns then and now still bang too many in my head but I tell them stop stop stop ohhhhh we’ll go bang and Poof! here won’t we, doc?
Savannah, July 22, 1837
INTERESTING AND AUTHENTIC FROM FLORIDA.
We regret to learn from a correspondent, who is well informed, that there is no reliance to be placed upon the Indians; that they have no intention of emigrating. It is believed that the Micasukeys, Tailahassees, Tallopees and Indian negroes, must be exterminated before the Seminoles proper can be removed. The pacific disposition manifested by the Indians who have come to the frontier, arises it is said, from the perfect preparation which they every where observe, not only to repel their attacks, if made, but to chastise them should they manifest a hostile disposition.
Gen. Jesup, it is thought, will forbid all trading with the Indians under any circumstances whatsoever. Until an unconditional surrender takes place, & their arms are delivered up, not a single ration will, probably, be furnished, or any trading allowed. Their Chiefs, it is said, have no influence except for purposes of mischief, and it would be, it is said, the extreme of folly to trust them again.
JOSEPH (1964)
She’d heard the shot and come in holding the gun they kept in case of robberies and screamed at them to leave him be. When they didn’t, she shot the chief, Baker, and he shot her back. This is what was repeated in court and the judge ruled the chief had acted in self-defense. He was right to shoot Nancy, they said, as he had feared for his life, and George killed outside the hands of the law by these persons unknown.
The private investigators hired by the Syrian newspapers found otherwise, that she was never the one to shoot first and that it wasn’t Baker but the other sheriff who’d shot her down. That the whole of the incident was on account of her going down to the station some days before, asking the chief to pay to have the car fixed like they’d promised, him telling her he’d do no such thing, that he didn’t owe her a damn thing and to get on her way. And that was when she called him a liar. That’s what the Syrian papers said. I stopped reading those papers then. Sure enough they were working hard to prove George and Nancy innocent, but all they did was make it harder for us to get on, for people to forget. I wasn’t there and I can’t say but she must have thought George dead. I can’t think of any other reason why she would’ve pulled the gun on the police. She’d come in from the shop’s rear and she must’ve seen George on the ground with sheriffs standing over him and she must’ve thought him dead or on the verge of it. I’ve gone over it enough times in my mind to know she would’ve shot them then.
Either way she’d been shot, and the chief’d been shot, and that’s when the kids walked in. She’d kept them hiding out back, but the shots brought Samuel out and Lily behind him to find Nancy bleeding but still alive. I wish she’d stopped screaming then. Why didn’t you stop? I ask her when she comes. Why couldn’t you stay quiet and help calm things down? You’d both be alive and I wouldn’t be sitting in the dark talking to voices in my head.
i was telling samuel to stand back! i was
screaming for samuel to stand back and they shot
me four more times
RE: lawyer
35 messages
Sat, Dec 15, 2002 at 3:46 AM
Steven Morelli
To: Diane Morelli
Your disrespect of me knows no bounds and I know that but the kids having to see pictures of you and whoever your whoring yourself out to. The ink isn’t even dry yet Diane and don’t forget whose paying for both lawyers while you go out doing lord knows what. Well we know what now don’t we. What kind of mother puts up a picture with someone like that. Your only embarrassing yourself, he looks like a thug criminal and if you think he’s going anywhere near my kids you have another thing coming. You should have seen Lucas face when I showed him. Your lucky Sarah is too young to know what you are, I pray she never does.
WITNESS 1 – NAME WITHHELD (1968)
No, let me ask you. Everyone wants to identify with the struggle of the Black man, the Black woman, the Black child running away from police, being killed by police. But never when they’re personally doing all right. They don’t care much about us then, how we’re being slapped against this nation’s asphalt, our skin put on display to make them weep or laugh. Where were your questions when they sent tanks into the cities, goddamn paratroopers after us? Were you writing about the snipers killing little girls hiding in their homes?
Look out there now, every time we walk and shout and fight everyone else out there too, making their claim. You think anyone sends in letters when we die? You think anyone but our own people taking issue with the police when it’s us they’re killing? You think anyone comes around here asking questions for a story about some man, some woman, who died more than thirty years ago? Shit, they’re not asking about the people who died today.
All right, listen. I was locked up half a dozen times before that night and I’ve been locked up a dozen times since and that man’s screams they stayed with me until now. He might’ve thought himself a white man, heck, he might have actually been one for a time, but he died like us and he won’t even know it. But the screams might not even be his screams anyhow. There’s been too many stacked up in my mind to tell one from the other. But I know his are in there with all the rest.
Seminole Indians in Florida
by Aimee Logan, 6th grade
winner, middle school division, 1999
The Seminole Indians migrated to Florida from Alabama and Georgia in the 1700s. At that time the British called them Creeks, not Seminole, and they were a combination of many other tribes. The name Seminole came from the Spanish word cimarrón, which means wild or runaway. In the 1800s some runaway slaves from other Southern states joined the Seminole tribe and became known as Black Seminoles.
One of the most important Seminole Indians was Billy Bowlegs. His Indian name was Halpatter-Micco, which meant Alligator Chief. He was the chief of the Seminoles and he led the tribe to fight against the government in the Seminole Wars. In between the wars the Seminoles hid in the Everglades and Billy Bowlegs was called King of the Everglades. When the Seminoles lost, they had to move to Oklahoma. The chief refused to move his people at first but finally agreed. Some Seminoles wouldn’t go and stayed in the Everglades instead.
The Seminole Indians play an important role in Florida’s history. Many of our cities and towns still have Muskogee names, like Tallahassee and Lake Okeechobee. Many of the foods we eat now were first planted by the Seminole Indians, like corn, beans, and squash. Even some of the games we play like tug-of-war come from Native Americans.
ACT I
Dimly lit bar, several decades past its heyday. Front door to the left of stage. To the right of stage, bar counter. A barman stands behind the counter, drying glasses. On the wall behind him hangs an alligator head — mouth ajar, teeth bared. It is synthetic, made of rubber, but somewhat convincing, intimidating. Also on the wall are black-and-white photos of smiling groups of white men drinking at the bar, of white couples dancing. To the left of the counter are several stools. The only customer in the bar, Leo Cox, sits on one, drinking the end of a pint.
&nbs
p; BARMAN:
You want another?
COX:
Sure.
BARMAN:
(Pours another pint from the tap.) Did I tell you Derek’s thinking of joining the force?
COX:
Is he now? Well, he’s a big guy, your brother. They’d be lucky to have him.
BARMA:
He was on the wrestling team all through school.
COX:
Is that right? Not much fun for you, I reckon.
BARMAN:
(Shaking head.) Sure wasn’t.
COX:
I been retired now for fifteen years and I miss it every day. Felt good to wear that uniform. Hope your brother does good by it.
BARMAN:
He’ll be putting himself to better use anyway.
COX:
My father was a sheriff. (Pauses.) My family’s been in Lake City for five generations, did you know that?
BARMAN:
(Absently.) That right?
COX:
Sure is. We helped make this place what it is. Cleared it of wild animals, savages, (laughing) Yankees. Even drained the goddamn glades. Cleared it and built it.
BARMAN:
Damn shame what they’re trying to bring down here.
COX:
Oh, don’t mind that now. People always go on about things changing but there’re no changes I can see.
BARMAN:
Derek says it’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
COX:
Well, he’s doing his part. Ain’t no one gonna change nothing if we don’t let them, you tell him that.
BARMAN:
I will.
COX:
The history of this city is a long one and the only thing changed about the place is the name.