CASPER (03-04-2021), Iolo/Penderyn (03-05-2021), signalmankenneth (03-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (03-05-2021)
The iconic image of the American cowboy is one of John Wayne riding out into the sunset.
Cowboys as portrayed in Hollywood were almost always gun-slinging heroes, and they almost always had another thing in common: They were white.
This is not how the West really was.
Really, the Western frontier in the late 1800s was as diverse as America is today, and maybe even more so.
Some people are familiar with vaqueros, or Mexican cowboys. But fewer know that many cowboys were black.
By the Smithsonian's count, 1 in 4 cowboys was black.
The forgotten history of the black cowboy is slowly being revealed through the work of historians, scholars and nonprofits. But some experts say black cowboy history still is not portrayed accurately, and still not being taught enough.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...st/3180296002/
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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PostmodernProphet (03-05-2021)
I think that we should confer with Miss Kitty on this subject.
What was the general ethnic makeup of your "clients," hon?
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Why doesn't the GOP have more black senators than one?
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Guno צְבִי (03-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (03-05-2021)
Will Reparations be going to Black Cowboys?
This article was written in 2013 and talks about Bass Reeves.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768669
Matt Dillon (03-05-2021)
McCarthyism still seems to be extremely strict over there. I've known about the 'black' cowboys for years. It wasn't a big secret elsewhere.
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