and crispus, whose body blair for this democracy becomes jeopardy. question and oh lord, this democracy this war gathering, not india, but mohegan, mojave manhattan is a not be word not 3/5 and abundance in history and crispus court a bully with his patriotism his dead body count of first as if being counted is a prerequisite to freedom for this america in his graveyards of naming. now if you get the allusion, you get a free book and this book ain't that expensive but is more expensive than i will give you for free. is so bad though like when you still don't have a post line and people don't get it because because you did this cool thing like like match your shoestrings to your shirt and nobody knew it. you and it's like, man. and then if they like the line you feel even more guilty because you like my name, even like me for me, you know, they like me for this person. but i'll tell because this is a good friend of mine. the line is from natalie diaz. it's manhattan is a la, not a word. and it's interesting though because, you know when you think abou

house, british soldiers fire on unarmed civilians and kill five, including native american black crispus attucks. four days later, samuel adams is colleague william molnar sends a letter to paine in taunton, formerly requesting him to return to boston and lead the prosecute in which he is fully willing to do. he accepts, but first he must attend to a personal matter. marrying sally cobb, who has been carrying his child for seven months. when he finally gets word of it in february and the next day, immediately he asks for her hand in marriage. ten days after the massacre, which was march 5th. on march 15th, bob and sally marry in her parents house, the first of their eight children is born. two months later, a name for the father. the second child will be named for the mother. sally jr. the lawyer chosen to defend the british is none other than john adams. as we all know, though, he believes independence to be inevitable. facing his legal rival and future friend. robert treat paine prosecute aiding the troops though he is not yet sure that independence is inevitable or even wise. the thre

and we act like crispus attucks was the only one, like he was some anomaly. but there was enough there that that john adams used two different descriptors for black. there was a diversity of black people. there. and so, you know, 1660s gloucester and bacon's rebellion, 1776, 1880 is, you know, 1960s. it's a through line in our history. it's part of what gives me hope. the middle of the century will be hard. the middle of american century, these are almost all basically all have been hard. but i'm hopeful about when we get to the end of the century, our children will be in a much better place because that magnetism between the poor, which is frankly just needing a better future for the family and the kids, keeps pulling people together and thank you for your front line teaching in maine. poverty in maine is crushing. you have people whose career is harvesting worms. it's a state where they only got rid of potato week like a decade ago because there were still people who said yes for a month to harvest potatoes for for the winter. because in the in the timberla