Comments by "Boyd" (@jjboyd01) on "NBC News"
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Kylie Jenner, from one of the most hated families in the world. Sold her CHEAP cosmetics firm for 1 billion dollars, took her 4 years. Harry and Meghan will make a fortune. Meghan already has to top cosmetic and fashion designers in the world to work with and the Business SUSSEX ROYAL. That name will be the same as Chanel, Hilfiger, and all the names y'all wear.
Now would you rather strive to do that, make your family wealthy , self-dependent, or BE AT THE MERCY OF A KING WILLIAM, CHARLES WHO WILL 100% CUT YOU LOOSE FROM THE PAYROLL WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND IRRELEVANT....
AND DO NOT TELL ME HARRY IS IRRELEVANT, THERE WOULD NOT BE 1,000 OF STORIES ABOUT HIM... HE'S THE MOST POPULAR ROYAL SICK OF BRITISH RACISM...
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SCREW YOU DESANTIS.
Matthew Korfhage, Cherry Hill Courier-Post
Wed, February 9, 2022, 12:50 PM
Since they were children, cousins Arianna Murray and Jane Fox Long had known the story of Oliver Cromwell.
His story wasn’t taught in schoolbooks. But in Burlington, New Jersey, and across the country, nine generations of his family helped keep it alive.
“We knew that our great-great-great grandfather — I forget how many greats — had crossed the Delaware with Washington,” Fox Long said. “It was the story that my mom had told, and it was also passed down to her.”
Cromwell was a decorated hero of New Jersey, they knew, a representative of an American history that had gone unheralded for much of this nation’s lifetime: an African American patriot of the Revolutionary War.
He was far from alone. Anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 free and enslaved Black soldiers fought for the lofty ideals of equality and liberty promised in the Declaration of Independence. In some Continental brigades, as many as 8% of soldiers were of African descent, according to an audit of forces in 1778.
“For soldiers of African descent, this was one of their most important routes to, in some cases, freedom from enslavement,” said Philip Mead, historian at Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution. “In probably more cases, it provided access to a political identity and maybe some political rights that they could negotiate based on having made sacrifices for the creation of the nation.”
But that promise wasn't always borne out. Some soldiers of African descent were instead re-enslaved after the war, said Mead. And black soldiers' sacrifices were sometimes willfully forgotten by the country they helped create.
The 1853 discharge papers of Oliver Cromwell, on file at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The papers bear the signature of General Geroge Washington, and confer on Cromwell the Badge of Merit for six years faithful service.
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