In case your forgot and want to skip ahead to St. Patricks, Easter and getting
mothers day flowers
Most people think of celebrating Black History Month starts with slavery or the civil rights era…

To trace the importance of the African heritage one must go back millions of years. Evidence has accumulated to the effect that Africa is the cradle of mankind. Professor Louis Leakey argues that Africa was important in the development of mankind in three ways.

(from The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs Originally published by Twayne Press in 1972)
You can download or view the entire book here. or if you into ebooks like me,
here is a version you can download for you pda (Treo). (use ereader for best results)

I recently began consulting on some high-end technology projects in the Wall Street area.

Slaves built the walls of Wall Street, which makes me think differently when it comes to
precious metals quotes or stock option investing

I recently came across some Jim Crow laws that were enforced from the 1880s into the 1960s:
Nurses No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama

Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama

Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. Alabama

Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama

Pool and Billiard Rooms It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. Alabama

Toilet Facilities, Male Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Alabama

Intermarriage The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void. Arizona

One legend contends that St. Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

And for this you should get your girl a box of chocolates?

I haven’t celebrated Valentine’s since I was “forced” in elementary to buy cards for EVERYONE else in my class.
I wonder is they still do that and the artwork with the elmers glue and macaroni?
I’ll be home watching “The Shield”
(since the list is CLOSED to the party that Moet/Chandon is throwing)
In the meantime, listen to a sampling of the Outkast tribute to the day, aptly titled
“Happy Valentine’s Day”

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