the attitude with arnie arnesen the wed edition Feb4

[Arnie Arnesen]

the attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts: The last slave by Marilyn Nelson
producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
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opening thoughts:

The Last Slave. By Marilyn Nelson

Samuel Freeman, emancipated

Nov. 8, 1820

You never could tell: people disappeared

suddenly in the old days, left rumors

and big black gaping holes in family trees.

Like the ones our Ancestors must have left

when Fate ripped them out of the world they knew.

You might have been sold. Or you’d run away

from despair and gotten lost in the unknown.

Was there a difference? Might as well be dead.

What happened to the loved ones left behind

holding dripping handfuls of might-have-been

was, simply, Fate. They just went on living:

they just survived. Or didn’t. Such is Fate.

Bought as a child by Captain Joseph Noyes,

I served him with respect until he died

and I realized that my Fate had changed.

For three generations my family

had lived with the Noyeses as one household

divided by an inherited curse

that made some Noyeses, and some property.

This was the only family I knew.

My wife was born and raised in a Noyes home.

Dr. Noyes delivered our two babies.

When I decided to claim my freedom,

five Noyeses testified on my behalf.

I was the last slave. Because freedom means

you have to earn wages, and make them stretch

from payday to payday, for rent, food, clothes,

the doctor when (not if) someone gets sick ... 

It doesn’t change the way the brutes see you,

but it does change the way you see yourself.

And that makes all the difference. I’d been free

six years when I was viciously attacked,

for acting proud while black. If I’d fought back,

I’d probably be dead now. William Noyes

hired a lawyer, who sent the brute to jail.

Because our families’ Fates are intertwined.

I’m sixty-five now. Who could have foreseen

that I’d be sitting out here on my porch

while red-throat whistlers and black-capped dicky-dees

celebrate, and the cherry petals snow.

No more than thirty years ago, who could

have foreseen this as my possible Fate:

a free, white-bearded black man with his wife

sunning together beside their front door,

looking down their forsythia-lined path;

their son out back hammering a horseshoe

in the blacksmith shop; their daughter humming

tunelessly in the kitchen; their grandsons

swearing they’ll finish chores before dinner;

their quiet granddaughter dreaming futures.

Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

part one:

Doug Bock Clark a ProPublica reporter covering threats to democracy, elections and voting rights.Commitment to Sources Honoring my commitments to sources is of the utmost importance to me. For my reporting, I regularly interact with sources who distrust the media, and my track record shows that I treat them fairly. I have also written stories for which sources have taken risks, and I have effectively protected their anonymity.

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-fulton-county-voting-records-search-warrant

opening 2 cruelty on steroids:

ICE agents leave Ace of Spades ‘death cards’ on detained immigrants’ cars https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/23/ice-ace-of-spades-death-cards-detained-immigrants/

Nugget: Alex Sanchez, who works at Voces Unidas, an immigrant advocacy organization based in the mountains, first reported the news on his website late Thursday. He noted that the ace of spades has a long history as a tool of intimidation, including its use by white supremacist groups meant to demean people of color.

“We are disgusted by ICE’s actions in Eagle County,” he said in his post. “Leaving a racist death card behind after targeting Latino workers is deliberate intimidation rooted in a long history of racial violence. This is an abuse of power.”

Nine Latino community members were detained by ICE officials, and the agents reportedly left the cards inside their vehicles. The cards were later found by family members, Sanchez said. The cards say “Denver Field Office” and list the address and phone number of the GEO immigration detention facility in Aurora.

part two:

Ned Resnikoff (fellow Roosevelt Institute) is a writer, researcher, and independent urban policy consultant. He previously worked as policy director for California YIMBY, policy manager for the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UC San Francisco, and as a fiscal and policy analyst for the California state legislature. He is also a former journalist, with bylines in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, MSNBC, Business Insider, the Nation, the New Republic, and Dissent, among other publications. Resnikoff is currently working on a book about cities for Island Press, with an expected release date in fall 2026. He holds a master’s in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals   https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/lessons-from-yimbyism/

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