Frederick Douglass sure was a good writer (speaker)

I hope you've had a nice AAPI month
https://www.today.com/news/aapi-meaning-rcna205290
I have not done much for it, as an ally (?) The race I ran in on Sunday was commemorating the month.
I re-watched the video coverage of BTS appearing at the White House in 2022 to support Stop Asian Hate campaign
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/697696.html

Flashback:
As one might imagine, Frederick Douglass opposed the Chinese exclusion act of 1882

>>I want a home here not only for the negro, the mulatto and the Latin races; but I want the Asiatic to find a home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours. <<

This is FD's speech from 1867 about his hope for a "composite nationality" *
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1867-frederick-douglass-describes-composite-nation/


* as opposed to a melting pot. Miss Manners once wrote that she thought melting pot was not the right food metaphor, and thought paella would be better - many distinctive and delicious parts.

One of America's Great National Pastimes

I did other May observances, including No-mow May. Today is only the 30th (happy old Memorial Day), but I don't have much free time on weekends, so I spend more than an hour cutting the front yard. Remember that I use this kind of mower (although mine is old and the wheels are not as spiffy)


With the grass and weeds that thick I had to push hard. I got a blister in an awkward place on my right thumb. We'll see tomorrow what it's like to use a (practice) sword or to ring. After mowing I took a shower and scrubbed myself all over with a loofah, worried about ticks, and washed the shirts I was wearing.

As always, this was my head song for part of the time I was mowing, because of the line "One of America's great national pastimes is cutting the grass

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