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Sharon B in ATL's avatar

#9 Create.

Make something. Make something where there was nothing before. Make art. Make beautiful art, ugly art, angry art! Cook a meal. Write a poem. Photograph nature. Make a joyful noise! Creation is a diversion and an act of defiance. It is an expression of your best self.

I wake up and make art every day. Sometimes it’s just 15 minutes.It’s my meditation and it keeps me grounded. It gives me the joy I need in life to balance all the shit that’s raining down right now. Making art gives me a sense of control in this chaos. Here’s this thing I made that never existed before. I made this. It’s an expression of my free will.

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Nancy Peacock's avatar

John, A next column might include the Trump 2025 Trail of Tears Proposal, where he advocates getting rid of the Palestinians by force. Here is the last time that happened:

The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans[3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.[4]

As part of Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.[5][4][6] The Cherokee removal in 1838 was the last forced removal east of the Mississippi and was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.[7] The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.[8][9][10] A variety of scholars have classified the Trail of Tears as an example of the genocide of Native Americans;[11][b] others categorize it as ethnic cleansing.

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