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VanGoghRocks

(621 posts) Tue Aug 19, 2014, 01:43 AM Aug 2014

Trivia Contest: What was the race of the first casualty of each of the first [View all]

two American revolutions? What connection do those causalities have with the first casualty of the 3rd American revolution?

1st Hint: The answer is not 'Caucasian' or 'White'.

2nd Hint (Names):
Crispus Attucks
Hayward Shepherd
Michael Brown

3rd Hint: The answer is highly ironic.

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Trivia Contest: What was the race of the first casualty of each of the first [View all] VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 OP

Can you think of a single revolution that has made things better? Recursion Aug 2014 #1

Ah, but the second American Revolution (to quote James McPherson's book VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #2

The second American Revolution was a failed attempt to extend chattel slavery Recursion Aug 2014 #3

Well, Marxists view the U.S. Civil War as the last revolutionary gasp VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #4

You can't call the existing government the "revolution" (at least that seems weird to me pre-Lenin) Recursion Aug 2014 #5

It's late and it's been a long day. McPherson's book (full title) is "Abraham Lincoln VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #7

Many, many revolutionaries are reactionaries. Recursion Aug 2014 #8

Many positive numbers are the negative of negative numbers. So, too, a revolutionary VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #9

... pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #6

I'll see your funk and raise you some . . . confusion VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #10

HA! I was going to post that in a thread yesterday but held off. pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #11