Posted on 02/11/2018 2:02:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
No, and this crap is getting old.
Sounds like a truly remarkable man.
I wish I could have met him.
Yes of course but he was also a trans gendered Muslim vegan atheist.
Oh, please. You have “black” men now in all the movies, no matter how stupidly they’re placed (Medieval scripts, Robin Hood, etc.), and in absolutely ALL commercials. If you have 4 kids eating breakfast, at least one of them is “black.” Three guys in a basement watching football, at least one of them is “black.”
So, what’s next, “black” Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone? I’m sick of all this “black” crap.
“After the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865, abolishing slavery, Bass, now formally a free man, returned to Arkansas, where he married and went on to have 11 children.”
“...in his journey from slave to one of the staunchest defenders of the very government that had failed to protect his freedom in the first place.”
The first statement gives lie the second.
No, and this crap is getting old.
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Bull crap. He was a good man and deserves the recognition.
Of course! And A-rabs invented algebra. And calculus. And the light bulb. And they were the first to walk on the moon. White people did nothing!
The Lone Ranger was a story.
Perhaps based on an amalgam of stories picked up over the years.
The character was originally believed to be inspired by Texas Ranger Captain John R. Hughes, to whom the book The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey was dedicated in 1915.[28] A debunked myth was the possible historical inspiration of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River.[29] Other suggested inspirations were Zorro and Robin Hood.[30]
With all due respect, do you want them to all be removed to spare your sensibilities?
And are you seriously whining about Morgan Freedman in that 30 year old Robin hood movie (never mind the lack of real English accents), and seeing black kids in commercials?
Jesus, some people on this site sound as whiny as the SJWs that complain that their are too many “CIS” white people in everything.
“he married ... a decade of freedom”
What? It’s either one or the other...
Eh, probably hundreds of men’s lives were similar to the Lone Ranger tale.
And, and, and... don’t forget that Obama’s ancestor was the first freed slave and he owned 1000 acres.
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/obama-related-to-americas-first-slave/
Posting history on FR is crap?
Of course! And A-rabs invented algebra.
“Bull crap. He was a good man and deserves the recognition.”
We are supposed to celebrate American history, unlike the left, and people on FR lose their minds over this one guy because he may have served as the inspiration for a TV character from 60 years ago, and him being a black guy is too much to stomach!
It’s not like Doc Holiday, and Billy the Kid are losing out.
This was a interesting tidbit that I didn’t know about myself.
Bass Reeves was a badass lawman and a legend. He even arrested his own son IIRC. It would make a good movie with Denzel Washington as the marshal.
What wasn’t mentioned in the story was that the judge, “Hanging judge” Isaac C. Parker, is very famous in his own right. His federal court in Fort Smith, Arkansas had jurisdiction over the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Parker
The Clint Eastwood movie, “Hang ‘em High” (1968), is loosely based on the judge Parker/Bass Reeves tale.
Both judge Parker and Bass Reeves died of Bright’s (kidney) disease.
As was the true discoverer of the theory of relativity......
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