Weekend Open Thread

Good Morning.

I hope that you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.
Since they announced a couple of weeks ago that the annual vaccines were available, please go and get your shots.

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A Black cadet at West Point was found unconscious in his room, tied to his own bed, with his ears slashed.

The academy’s conclusion was that he had done it to himself.

Johnson Whittaker. 1880.

He was one of the first Black cadets ever admitted. He had been ostracised for three years — no roommate would share with him, no cadet would speak to him.

On the morning of April 6, 1880, he was found beaten, bound, and bleeding on the floor of his quarters.

West Point convened an inquiry and decided he had staged the whole thing to win sympathy. Then it court-martialled HIM.

He was convicted. The conviction was eventually thrown out by the President on legal grounds — and the army discharged him anyway on a technicality about an exam.

He became a teacher and a lawyer and never talked about it much.

In 1995 — one hundred and fifteen years later — the United States finally issued him a commission as a second lieutenant.
12:00 PM · Sep 24, 2026
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8 Responses to Weekend Open Thread

  1. rikyrah says:

    Now, THIS is clubbing that this GenXer can get behind 😁

    https://x.com/_3emeOeil/status/2104109416672838128

  2. rikyrah says:

    The French continue to come out for Pope Leo.
    Now in Lourdes

    https://x.com/EWTNews/status/2104109066201309554

  3. Anonymous says:

    Building a baseball park in GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK???😡😡
    
    Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
    
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/09/26/trump-officials-weigh-mlb-game-grand-teton-national-park/
    

  4. rikyrah says:

    The French have really put out the welcome mat for the Pope

  5. rikyrah says:

    Hello everyone. Issues with site😒

  6. mamahelena7573c91530 says:

    Good Afternoon, Everyone 😊😊😊

  7. mamahelena7573c91530 says:

    The French have come out for Pope Leo

    https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/2103821935779909810

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