by "K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
Published 10/11/2017 at 19:52
by "K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
Published 10/11/2017 at 19:52
Tags: NSFW
STARS: 4
The NSFSt in this case means NOT SAFE FOR SENSITIVE TYPES. Because it’s not sexual, and I don’t know how to classify it. It’s an old book.
My dad checked this out of library in his home town in Ohio over 40 years ago, forgot to return it (lol), and I found it under some books and magazines in my room. He must’ve given it to me at some point but I can’t remember when:
It’s weird having a history book that only goes to 1965. I might learn something new from this.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/11/2017 at 20:03, STARS: 0
That is very strange. I want to know the library back fees.
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
10/11/2017 at 20:03, STARS: 0
Dude! I will buy that from you just let me know!
"Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped" (verdog)
10/11/2017 at 20:04, STARS: 0
Return it?
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/11/2017 at 20:05, STARS: 0
I want to know if the library still exists? :p
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/11/2017 at 20:06, STARS: 0
Probs not.
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/11/2017 at 20:07, STARS: 0
But why? Color me confused.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
10/11/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 1
would you mind doing some ‘fact droppin’? I’m interested to see what i’m wrong about.
"JR1" (type35bugatti)
10/11/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
Oh wow. That is interesting. I have a few old Duesenberg books written from the 40s-60s. The tone of old history books never ceases to amaze me.
Also if you really want to be astonished read Dred Scott v. Stanford from the Supreme Court in 1856.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/11/2017 at 20:18, STARS: 0
That could be a good point too
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
10/11/2017 at 20:19, STARS: 2
Old history books are awesome because they provide the point of view of someone from a different time. Honestly what would be more interesting would be a history book about black rural culture (which for some reason intrigues me). A lot of times i feel like it gives me a better sense of what was happening at that time, when they are talking about current events. For older history they are somewhat closer to the events and present different views.
I’m also doing more research now to see if it is something I would want for sure.
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
10/11/2017 at 20:30, STARS: 0
Well, from the little I can find out it’s more of a reference book than a history? So I would prob pass.
"marshknute" (marshknute)
10/11/2017 at 22:30, STARS: 0
What’s a library?
"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
10/11/2017 at 23:40, STARS: 2
My wife recently found a book she had checked out in second grade in 1986. She asked my brother in law that is a librarian about it. His take was that the library wouldn’t want it back at this point since they wouldn’t be able to add it to the system without an ISBN number. In terms of fines he said if you feel guilty send $10 with a note of apology since that would’ve been the maximum fine at the time, but he said by now they would’ve written it off as a “dead account” fine.
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/12/2017 at 01:47, STARS: 0
It’s just a book of historical facts from the 1400s to 1965. Still a neat book I’m gonna enjoy reading.
"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/12/2017 at 01:48, STARS: 1
Sure! I can make a post every now and then with some facts here and there.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 10:14, STARS: 0
What year was your dad born?
Looks like the author was a lawyer. https://www.amazon.com/Irving-J.-Sloan/e/B001HOHZYW Is it just an attempted factual accounting of black history in America?
Here’s a review of another of his books, “OUR VIOLENT PAST: AN AMERICAN CHRONICLE”.
Ah, fair America, thou art not: foul deeds besmirch thy past, bloody murders, mob violence, and sundry other brutalities too numerous to recount (though others have done it more exhaustively than Mr. Sloan). This particular unbosoming proceeds topically rather than chronologically: from Indian extermination to racial atrocities to anti-abolitionist excesses to political uprisings to anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, and anti-Chinese violence to frontier and vigilante justice to labor struggles to God knows where—””Given the lesson of the American past, the future does not augur well.”” Sloan isolates the three strands of political, ethnic, and economic violence only to intertwine them again in most of his examples, but in the conclusion economic violence emerges as Strand Number One. “”The demands for political and social equality rarely if ever brought forth violence. But,”” may the white power structure take heed, “”the struggle for economic opportunity has brought forth and threatens to continue to bring forth violence.”” Otherwise there is little attempt at synthesis or interpretation ; the incidents stand unrelated and undigested. Sixteen pages of illustrations and photographs, and lengthy quotes from horrified contemporary sources enliven the accounting. All in all, the recapitulation is no more distinguished than the record.