Also, that car up there is known as The Warrior, and it’s a one-off built by McKinley Thompson, Jr., the first black automotive designer to work for a major American automaker, in this case Ford, starting in 1956. The Warrior was a little home-built side project of his, and I think it’s fantastic. It’s rear-engined, built on a Renault 10 chassis – an excellent starting point, I think, the R10 is a very underrated car – and was designed to be amphibious.
It’s like a four-seater amphibious dune buggy, with what appears to be a good-sized trunk. The ultimate fun car. This should have become a sensation, piling friends into these every summer weekend and belly-flopping into lakes.
Maybe someday.
(pic from Henry Ford Museum)
Kinda a silly way to go about it, but makes about as much sense as what the rest of our state govt is doing over here.
Seriously. If you venture even 15 minutes outside the four major cities, you’ll wish it was just Dueling Banjos. Wall to wall traitor flags flown above their ‘blue lives matter’ rags. SPLC is seriously undercounting the hate groups. Hell, even going out into the suburbs, your pride flag will be stolen or set on fire, your car keyed, and you may even be screamed at or physically assaulted.
Back in the 90s I lived in SW Virginia, where instead of Martin Luther King Jr day, they celebrated “Lee-Jackson-King” day, like officially that was the day, 2 leaders of the Confederates, oh and the government made an official day about the civil rights leader so we’ll celebrate him too. It was just bizarre, like 1) why are you celebrating those 2 guys birthday? and 2, you know what the 3rd guy was still fighting for like 100 years after those other 2 guys fought against it right? And 3, your state borders the federal capital! and I could just go on but yeah, strange place.
Because…
This Black Man needs to know how that Black Man signed off on that car!
Go knock on his door!
Pronto!
A week later they informed us we were losing a PTO day to compensate for the new holiday.
I couldn’t help but chuckle at the irony of losing a little freedom to celebrate it.
So, do you hold staff meetings in Jason’s Pao?
I would just like to point out that while it’s true that this is the day that it was over for enslaved Americans in the rebelling states, this is not true for enslaved Americans in loyal slavery states – states being Missouri, Maryland, and Kentucky and Delaware. For enslaved persons in Kentucky and Delaware, the date of freedom was not until December 1865 (half a year later) when the 13th amendment was ratified by 3/4 of all states. Missouri and Maryland both ratified almost immediately, while Delaware and Kentucky both rejected ratification and did not ratify officially until 1901 and 1976 (?!?!), respectively.
Again, enjoy the day off…..
