Tuesday, April 12, 2011
[1633 - Galileo is convicted of heresy for maintaining
that the Earth revolves around the Sun]
[1777 - Henry Clay, Senator, Secretary of State,
born in Hanover County, Virginia]
[1861 - Civil War begins; Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina]
[1904 - Lily (Alice) Pons, operatic soprano, actress, born in Draguignan, near Cannes, France]
[1911 - Lieutenant T.G. Ellyson becomes the first US Navy pilot]
[1923 - Ann Miller (Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier), actress, dancer, born in Chireno, Nacogdoches County, Texas]
[1937 - National Labor Relations Act is upheld by the Supreme Court]
[1945 - President Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs]
[1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human
to travel into space]
White Made Right
Our DNA code reveals no subspecies human.
The color of skin was just a distraction.
White Light is a rainbow under diffraction.
The same sun shines all over this planet.
Every one of us is Colored by its bright rays.
Our notions of race were but a bad habit.
Neither White nor Black, only shades of grays.
So, if your skin is White, upon reflection,
It shows every color in the physical spectrum.
Master Race was a myth born of Hitler's fascism.
We are inextricably mixed when seen through a prism.
William's Whimsical Words:
Black is beautiful. So are brown and yellow.
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