washington, d.c. governor abbott had this to say. i can, and i will, continue to call special session after special session after special session, all the way up to election next year. as soon as they come back in the state of texas, they will be arrested, cabined inside the capitol until they get their job done. here s what you actually write about how some of these texas democrats are reacting to that type of language. jarvis fears what could happen if his son passes the wrong police officer who has heard abbott say the lawmakers fled, are warranted, subject to arrest. it is language, another black texas democrat told me, brings to mind the pursuit of runaway slaves and lost animals. this is not just about the focus of texas, the folks that eye electriced them to office.
A Wednesday to Remember
Wednesday was a busy day for me.
A Venezuelan navy supply ship left here Wednesday for St. Vincent and the Grenadines with supplies from Saint Lucia, Cuba and Venezuela.
It was another of those newsworthy events that wasn’t deemed worthy enough to attract local media interest, but it was welcome news elsewhere, including St. Vincent, Cuba and Venezuela.
Not that it was a quickie, as the Venezuelan ship spent all of five days in Port Castries.
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But while the media continued monitoring COVID-19 numbers in 2021 just the same old way like in 2020 and speculating on when the Prime Minister may call the next election, NEMO, SLASPA, the Cuban and Venezuelan Embassies in Castries and the Government of Saint Lucia worked to ensure water, special rubber masks and other essential emergency supplies were loaded onto the large vessel – including six Cuban doctors.
Mexico’s wavering policies on slavery encouraged both slave owners and the enslaved.
The admission of Texas to the union as a slave state ultimately tipped the balance in favor of the free states.
A few years ago, I visited the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the high banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati. Not only is this large, modern and well-curated museum a highly recommended tourist stop, but it also symbolically faces the other side of the river and the former slave state of Kentucky a physical fact impossible to forget as one imagines the horrors and hopes experienced by those who fled from bondage in the South.
Turns out her great-great-grandparents, who are buried there,
were agents in the little-known underground railroad that led through South Texas to Mexico during the 1800s. Thousands of enslaved people fled plantations to make their way to the Rio Grande, which became a river of deliverance. I don t know why there wasn t anything that we would ve known as we were growing up. It amazes me to learn the underground deal I had no idea at all, says Webber-Vasques, 70, who recently learned the story of her forebear John Ferdinand Webber from her daughter-in-law who has researched family history. I m very proud to be a Webber, she says.
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