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Herschel Walker says that... the Voting Rights Bill "doesn't fit what John Lewis stood for."
Herschel Walker says that Congressman John Lewis was “one of the greatest SENATORS that’s ever been,” and that the Voting Rights Bill “doesn’t fit what John Lewis stood for.”
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That's some crazy-ass shite right there!
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Herschel Walker is a maroon apparently. 
I was kidding around using the term “maroon”…when I meant moron. That said, I didn’t know about the actual Maroons in your post…so thank you for that. 
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
https://www.turbante-se.com/blog/2020/7/17/queen-nanny-of-the-maroons
When I first started researching women in history, who would wear headwrap, I remember finding Queen Nanny of the Maroons in a headwrap on a 500 dollars note from Jamaica. She is the only recognized national hero in Jamaica, born in Ghana. The most notable rebel woman in Jamaica's history has an intriguing yet shadowed in mystery history. She was a powerful military leader and strategist who transcended gender stereotypes to lead her people.
"Nanny was not born into the Maroons, rather she came from Ghana. Information about how Nanny integrated herself into the Maroon communities is non-existent. She is only mentioned in text four times: all by British individuals who she encountered. Despite there being little written information about her, Nanny is considered to be "the personified symbol of black resistance against white oppression by the Maroons and others." According to Mozambican historian and novelist Mario Azevedo, Nanny was known by both her own people and the British as an incredible political and military leader. (...) She did not engage in the fighting herself, although she did kill and have put to death many British soldiers. She is credited with teaching her soldiers, some 3,000 by one count, how to use a cow horn for long distance communication by blowing into it. A British junior officer described her as "[having] a girdle around her waist, with nine or ten different knives hanging in sheaths to it, many of which I doubt not had been plunged into human flesh and blood. Karla Gottlieb, (in The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons) estimates that throughout the fighting, only 100 Maroons were killed in comparison to the thousands of British. Nanny clearly was a formidable foe, but that was not all for which she was known."
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https://www.turbante-se.com/blog/2020/7/17/queen-nanny-of-the-maroons
When I first started researching women in history, who would wear headwrap, I remember finding Queen Nanny of the Maroons in a headwrap on a 500 dollars note from Jamaica. She is the only recognized national hero in Jamaica, born in Ghana. The most notable rebel woman in Jamaica's history has an intriguing yet shadowed in mystery history. She was a powerful military leader and strategist who transcended gender stereotypes to lead her people.
"Nanny was not born into the Maroons, rather she came from Ghana. Information about how Nanny integrated herself into the Maroon communities is non-existent. She is only mentioned in text four times: all by British individuals who she encountered. Despite there being little written information about her, Nanny is considered to be "the personified symbol of black resistance against white oppression by the Maroons and others." According to Mozambican historian and novelist Mario Azevedo, Nanny was known by both her own people and the British as an incredible political and military leader. (...) She did not engage in the fighting herself, although she did kill and have put to death many British soldiers. She is credited with teaching her soldiers, some 3,000 by one count, how to use a cow horn for long distance communication by blowing into it. A British junior officer described her as "[having] a girdle around her waist, with nine or ten different knives hanging in sheaths to it, many of which I doubt not had been plunged into human flesh and blood. Karla Gottlieb, (in The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons) estimates that throughout the fighting, only 100 Maroons were killed in comparison to the thousands of British. Nanny clearly was a formidable foe, but that was not all for which she was known."
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This is fascinating. Thank you Celerity. 
