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RIP Jesse

Posted by Maestro on 3/2/2026, 10:38 am

Re: RIP Jesse

Posted by Les on 3/2/2026, 8:46 pm, in reply to "RIP Jesse"

Thanks, Maestro. I thought that was going to be the full service, though. I’m sure I can find it, meanwhile.

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RIP Bernard Lafayette...another warrior claimed

Posted by grimreaper on 3/6/2026, 9:01 pm, in reply to "Re: RIP Jesse"

A WHOLE BUNCH OF WARRIORS ARE TRANSITIONING. SAD

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The Civil Rights pioneer Bernard Lafayette, who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85 years old.
In the 1960s, Lafayette was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC). He later became a faculty member at Auburn University in Alabama, where he lectured on nonviolent social change...
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They are slowly leaving their footprints in the sands of time, to quote someone.
Are we gonna honor them by keeping their names alive for future generations? I'm pessimistic!

Re: RIP Bernard Lafayette...another warrior claimed

Posted by Almighty on 3/7/2026, 3:06 am, in reply to "RIP Bernard Lafayette...another warrior claimed"

Great guy(photo below when he was beaten in Selma)

I saw him next to MLK a few times during MLK interviews. Early in his life, Lafayette knew that the pursuit of social justice would be central to his life. After seeing the abuse his grandmother received on segregated streetcar system, he was filled with an emotional feeling that he would never forget. RIP!!

oh Country Joe..

Posted by grimreaper on 3/8/2026, 4:07 pm, in reply to "Re: RIP Bernard Lafayette...another warrior claimed"

LOL... GM got to know his anti-Vietnam theme song because his brother would annoy his household by always singing it. Years later he realized his brother had the lyrics all confused. Gosh!

The wicked one has claimed Country Joe McDonald at the age of 84..
He popularized the anti-Vietnam song 'What are we fighting for' - that's how we called it in the islands at the time, but it's official title was "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die" etc.
Man, we are losing so many 60s warriors..
MAY COUNTRY JOE McDONALD REST IN A PEACEFUL HIPPIE PLACE FOREVER. AMEN

Signed: great counterculture song though.. wonder if it influenced Jimmy Cliff's "Vietnam", a very underrated anti-war song...grimreaper

Re: oh Country Joe..

Posted by Maestro on 3/8/2026, 6:26 pm, in reply to "oh Country Joe.."

Thanks so much for posting this gm. I knew Joe personally. I drove him from Madison to Milwaukee back in 88 0r 89 to play a fund raiser for our Central America organization and the Vietnam Vets against the war. The dude was all working class throughout his heart and soul. He took a nap on my couch at my apartment before he played at our fund raiser. We stopped at a restaurant and had a burger and some fries. He was a Navy Vet and loved talking about the military and veterans. He joined up at 17- years-old and I at 18. His parents were both Communist party members and he got the country Joe name after country Joe Stalin, no joke. May he RIP.

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Re: oh Country Joe..

Posted by gm on 3/8/2026, 7:54 pm, in reply to "Re: oh Country Joe.."

I heard about his death and it brought back memories of my home on the island. My brother used to butcher the lyrics yet he continued singing it wherever & whenever..he and a small group of students read all kinds of Marxist literature and were devoted. In retrospect i'm surprised they didn't start some kind of uprising on the island. lol.
But then, it was a very Catholic, conservative, and pro-American environment.

Anyway, while I was posting (grimreaper? lol) about his passing, you came to mind because I suspected you'd identify with the period and his music; and i'm not at all surprised that you knew him - my instinct was correct!
RIP Country Joe McDonald. Amen

oh Judy...I loved her soooo

Posted by grimreaper on 3/15/2026, 7:53 am, in reply to "Re: oh Country Joe.."

DAMMMN, NOT JUDY PACE!

Judy Pace has been claimed by the wicked one!
She was an actress who appeared in the Blaxploitation film 'Cotton Comes to Harlem'..
In one scene she appeared in a see-through neligee and I almost died..

..that scene is the only one I remember from that film and it stuck in my mind forever - gosh, the abuse I put myself through because of that wonderfully sexy scene. Anyway..
Actress Judy Pace is dead at 84-years old..
MAY JUDY PACE REST IN A QUIET PEACE FOREVER. AMEN

Signed: man, she and Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Gloria Henry, Vonetta McGee, certainly raised my teenage blood pressure and it's never gone down....dammn the wicked one!!...grimreaper

Re: oh Judy...I loved her soooo

Posted by Almighty on 3/16/2026, 2:24 am, in reply to "oh Judy...I loved her soooo"

Indeed, I remember her(photo below) from the 70s Blaxploitation movies. Morocco at that time was importing lots of Blaxploitation movies, maybe because they were cheaper. I think she played in one of the Shaft TV series with Richard Roundtree who also passed a way. May they both RIP. I love my 70s memories, life for me was much better in those days, full of energy, I miss it so dearly.

Signed: Almighty the bastard!

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