Journal
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The Best Fireworks Ever – Thunder Over Louisville
This video doesn’t even do it justice. However, these really are the best fireworks I have ever seen. Thunder over Louisville is part of several events centered around the Kentucky Derby. We had a blast. This was the finale, we were just near the Clark Bridge. There were cannons too, boom!
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School Safety
2/28/2018 I watched the news as the terror unfolded when students were shown running out of Parkland crying and frightened. Just a couple of weeks before, the same situation unfolded in my state. I just moved here. I began to worry about my child at school. Boy, is mass shootings in school way too commonplace. This was unheard of when I was growing up. Parents spoke to the president, meetings were held, and students were asked their opinions. The status quo decided that A. we need tougher background checks, B. We need to band bump (idk thats what it sounded like) stocks, and C. we need to raise the age…
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Sssh
Raped by Dazee Dizzle I wrote two songs about rape. One was titled, “Raped”. Raped Could I hide my face Cover my hair to feel more safe? Not connect, just disconnect To avoid that fate not even date Not have sex Let all these things hold me back To not get raped, not get raped You know what I want I’m promiscuous So I get what I deserve I ask for it Just off of looks it’s what I’ve earned And I’ve had so much experience I can’t have love And anything I might get I have to give it up Don’t want my fate to be rape Let my…
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Explicit? Bio 101
Bio 101 by Dazee Dizzle I will be the first to say abstinence is not a good look on me. However, that has been my experience more often than not. Although I hate to reveal my age, if you knew it then you would know it is really hard to be abstinent. Many people go through this so I know I am not alone. A person can fantasize though. I watched porn for awhile. It worked for a bit. Then I got tierd of that. Here I was, a single mother going back to school, at “that” time in her life and studying biology. While I was sitting in biology,…
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The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side. Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I. My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes). The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…
