Pershing Square is perishing. Many Angelenos (people living in the megalopolis of the "City of Angels" aka Spanish Ciudad de Los Angeles) have visited downtown’s Bradbury Building, but not everyone knows about the nearby Biddy Mason Memorial Park located on the south side of the building, between Broadway and Spring Streets.
I'm smiling because I'm finally free!
Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born into slavery in 1818. Not much is known of her early life, but by the time she was a young adult she was enslaved in the household of Robert Smith.
In 1847, she traveled, mostly on foot, from Mississippi to Utah with the Smith household. The household lived in Salt Lake City for two years, then resettled in San Bernardino, California in 1851.
California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a free, non-slave state, which meant [human trafficker] Smith was holding Biddy Mason illegally. Mason fought for her freedom in court, with the trial ruling confirming her freedom in 1856.
Money is a good servant but a cruel master
As a free woman, Biddy Mason settled in Los Angeles with her children and found work as a nurse and midwife.
In 1866, she purchased a nearly one-acre site between present-day Broadway (then Fort Street) and Spring Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
The Black female owner of Los Angeles
On this, the present location of the park, she built her homestead. Throughout the years, this pioneering Black woman purchased more property. And as the value of her [real estate] holdings escalated, she eventually became a relatively wealthy woman and a tireless philanthropist.
VIDEO: How Biddy Mason changed LA forever: Biddy Mason’s story is one of the most powerful hidden chapters in American history. Born into slavery, she fought for her freedom and went on to become one of the first Black women to own land in Los Angeles. Through real estate, business, philanthropy, and founding First A.M.E. Church, she helped shape the city we know today. How did she build her legacy, inspire generations, and truly become "the woman who owned LA"?
This mini-park was designed by landscape architects Katherine Spitz and Pamela Burton. The artwork Biddy Mason Time and Place is an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall by artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
The wall is a timeline of Biddy Mason’s life, illustrated by impressions of objects such as agave leaves, wagon wheels, and a midwife’s bag, as well as simple text and images such as an early survey map of Los Angeles and Biddy’s freedom papers.
The history begins at the right (northernmost) end of the wall with the text “Biddy Mason born a slave,” and progresses in time to the inscription: “Los Angeles mourns and reveres Grandma Mason.” More
Jewish Israeli spy [Ghislaine's father] Robert Maxwell -- ruthless, volatile, defiant, a man of gargantuan appetites for food, wine, women, power, money -- unabashedly bared his ambition to the world, as he strove to build a publishing empire in the UK and US.
But throughout his career he also nurtured another, more driving, and until now altogether hidden ambition, and that was to spy for Israel's CIA, the Mossad.
Gordon Thomas, an author who has long been trolling the murky waters of international intelligence, shows in this gripping narrative, the conflict between this tycoon's public interests and spy's secret pursuits led to his mystifying death, officially by drowning, in Nov. 1991, off the Canary Islands.
According to the author's well-placed sources in Israel, Washington D.C., and London, Maxwell first came into Mossad's orbit in the 1970s, when the crack Israeli spy organization stole from the United States its most sophisticated piece of intelligence-gathering software, Enhanced Promis.
Of it Mossad made an electronic Trojan horse, secretly amassing strictly classified [blackmail material] information from inside the very organizations worldwide to which they were selling it.
The Mossad's representative for these extremely sensitive transactions costing tens of millions of dollars in China, Russia, India, and 20 other countries was Robert Maxwell.
Only Maxwell was also helping himself to some of Mossad's profits -- as well as $750,000,000 from his employees' pension fund -- in desperate attempts to maintain his empire and to meet the demands of increasingly intolerant creditors.
Is transparency in U.S. gov't too much to ask?
Aboard his yacht that November night in 1991 Maxwell no doubt still clung to the hope of a bailout by Mossad. But the Mossad's spy masters could not afford to smile on blackmail.
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Oppression of Irish was not limited to England; many were exported to the United States, where we exploited them for labor, called them "black," and relegated them to the lowest rung on the ladder and right out of the melting pot (or mortar Lady Liberty used her pestle to pound everyone else into one big All-American mash). Is it possible we (the USA) had Irish chattel slaves a decade before exploiting pre-African Black natives (in addition to all of the Indigenous "Red" American slaves no one seems to know about, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States), and African imports?
Don't go beyond The Pale, a safe zone
In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th century as a pejorative to derogatorily describe Irish refugees of the Great Famine [1].
This came after the potato blight when England was exporting all the food on the Emerald Isle to feed themselves -- because ALL famines are, in fact, manmade disasters of fearful hoarding and consequent skyrocketing prices (The phenomenon of famine - PubMed).
It later shifted into a term used to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-colored hair, blue or dark eyes, or otherwise dark coloring [2, 3] as scientifically measured by scientists doing scientifical stuff.
US Black Irish just means American
WHAT IS BLACK IRISH? The term refers to Black people who live in Ireland. But it is also a colloquial (common) term that refers to Caucasian people of Irish ancestry who have black hair—with noticeably black eyelashes and body hair may accompanied by pale skin and blue or green eyes, producing a particularly dramatic effect that is sometimes called "black Irish" like the American beauty Shannen Maria Doherty.
This meaning is not used in Ireland [1], where "Black Irish" more refers to Irish people of African descent [4]. The most common use of the term "Black Irish" is tied to the myth that they were descended from Spanish sailors [possibly during the Dark Ages when, according to British historian Bettany Hughes, Blacks ruled Europe until the Enlightenment] shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].
However, no anthropological, historical, or genetic research yet supports this story. [Except perhaps the growing body of research, and that popular Discovery-like channel show, showing archeological/anthropological evidence that the first people in and around the Isle were Black, but perhaps that information is too new for Wiki to know anything about, even as it flooded mainstream U.S. media for a brief time.]
Some theorists assert that the term was adopted in some cases by Irish Americans who wanted to conceal interracial unions with African Americans, paralleling the phrase "Black Dutch" which was also used in the United States to hide racial identity [11, 12, 13].
Likewise, the concept of "Black Irish" was also used by some Aboriginal Australians to racially pass themselves into Australian society [14]. In the earlier parts of the 19th century, "Black Irish" was sometimes used in the United States to describe biracial people of African and Irish descent [9, 10].
By the 20th century, "Black Irish" had become an identity played out by Irish-American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert E. Howard. In 21st-century Ireland Black Irish is used primarily to refer to Irish nationals of African descent, and the alternative meaning is not commonly used. More
TRUTH about the Irish - First slaves brought to the Americas - Forgotten History
(FORGOTTEN HISTORY) Feb. 13, 2023: ✪ Members first on Feb. 9, 2023: Slavery is perhaps one of the oldest profit-making endeavors in human history, and the Irish islanders were a special target for a thousand years, persecuted by one faction or another, to include enslavement, status as serfs and servants, and indentured servitude. But were they the first slaves in the Americas? Find out here. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. The Forgotten History Channel is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
SOURCES: Public Record Office, London Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Vol. 1, 1574-1660, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1860.
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What if you can't feed your slaves? A Modest Proposal
It started with enslavement of St. Patrick - Don't call me Pete. It's mineral peat (coal). It's time to ban guns and Christianity or else. Who were the original "Aryans"? The Buddha's lineage comes from the region now called Iran (Ariyan), later called Persia, in the Buddha's time called the Middle Country (Majjhimadesa), referring to the Solar Race, as we read in Rhys Davids' translation of The Story of the Lineage (in his work Buddhist Birth Stories). Historian Dr. Ranajit Pal says the Buddha's mother was from Sistan-Baluchistan, now a region of Iran, and his father's family from Afghanistan (Kapilavastu, the capital cities one of which was Bamiyan, ancient Gandhara), Central Asia. The other country name related to Aryan is Ireland (Aryan-Land). Odd, no?
Forgotten History, 2023; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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