#TBT …. “❤️ Throwback Thursday …. My Family Unit …. You are Missed ❤️ …. “!!

~~August 2, 2018~~

MY FAMILY

This is my Dad (pepo) , sitting, and my Brother (Pepito), standing.

My Mother had already passed on.

I don’t know the exact date of this picture.

It’s a fond memory … kinda sad but quite memorable.

HortyRex©

#TBT #ThrowbackThursday #MyFamilyUnit $You are Missed #Father #Pepo #Brother #Pepito #FamilyForever #ForAlways #NoMatterWhat

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

ANTWON ROSE, JR. ….. “😢 #SayHisName …. I Am Not What You Think 😢 …. “!!

~~July 6, 2018~~ 

ANTWON ROSE, JR. 

THERE ARE NO WORDS. HOW COULD THERE BE?

Another senseless shooting, another victim to police deadly force.

Another victim to ‘running while black’.

Another black citizen shot in the back by police!

#SayHisName

HortyRex©

On Monday, June 25th, two friends of Antwon, 17, a rising high school senior from Rankin, Pa., who was killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer one week prior to this writing, struggled to read that poem, “I Am Not What You Think!,” as family, schoolmates and friends gathered for Antwon’s funeral at his school, Woodland Hills Intermediate School, in Swissvale, Pa.

Antwon died after being shot three times as he ran from a vehicle during a traffic stop. The police said that he and another passenger fled after an officer stopped the Chevrolet Cruze they were in because it was thought to have been involved in an earlier shooting. The driver was taken into custody, interviewed and later released, the police have said.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

Two Years Before Police Murdered Antown Rose He Wrote a Poem Fearing His Life Would End

~Published on Jun 22, 2018~

17 year old Antwon Rose wrote a poem in 2016 hoping his mother would never have to experience losing her son to police violence.

Two years later, Police gunned down the unarmed African American.

~Thom Hartmann Program~

~~ANOTHER SOURCE~~ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/27/east-pittsburgh-police-officer-who-shot-and-killed-antwon-rose-charged-with-criminal-homicide/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae6356a0d87b

#AntwonRoseJr #SayHisName #IAmNotWhatYouThink #AntwonsPoem #Policeman #ShotInTHeBack #ShotThreeTimes #RanFromVehicle #TrafficStop #ChevroletCruze #HeWasSeventeen #PoliceGunnedDown #UnarmedAfricanAmerican #GrowingUpBlack #InAmerica #ChargedCrimilanHomicide #ThomHartmannProgram

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

Wordless Wednesday …. “🇵🇷 In Memoriam …. One Pair Of Shoes, One Puerto Rican Life 🇵🇷 …. “!!

VISCERAL MEMORIAL

#HurricaneMaria #USTerritory #USColony #USPossession #PuertoRicanLivesMatter #HeartSoulAche #MyCountry #SecondClassCitizens #OfficialDeathToll #HarvardUniversityStudy #SanJuanCapitol #VisceralMemorial #PuertoRicanShoes #PuertoRicanLives

#WeAlllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexachwordpress

Puerto Rico National Guard Fatal Crash …. “🇵🇷 Faces, Names and Stories 🇵🇷 …. “!!

TRAGEDY STRIKES PUERTO RICO’S NATIONAL GUARD

PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA

Surveillance video captured a 1950’s-era military cargo plane plunging to the ground. The C-130 aircraft exploded into flames on a busy Georgia highway Wednesday, May 2, killing all nine crew members aboard.

The Puerto Rico National Guard plane took off from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport shortly before 11:30 a.m. and was headed for retirement.

#InMourning #PuertoRicoNationalGuard #FatalAirplaneCrash #PortWentwoorth #Georgia #Pilot #MajJoseRafaelRoman #1stLtDavidAlbandoz #MasterSgtJeanAudriffred #MasterSgtMarioBrana #MasterSgtEricCircuns #MasterSgtVictorColon #SeniorAirmanRobertoEspada #SeniorMasterSgtJanParavisini #MajCarlosPerez Serra

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

‘Architecture Built to Heal’ …. “Memorial to Peace and Justice Built In Alabama …. National Memorial to Peace and Justice …. “!!

~~April 9, 2018~~ 

NATIONAL LYNCHING MEMORIAL

Memorial Honoring Lynching Victims Being Built In Alabama

 “Architecture that’s built to heal”

The Memorial to Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial planned to commemorate the victims of lynching in America, and is expected to open in Montgomery, Alabama in April 2018. The memorial is to be built in the downtown area of the state capital by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit based in Montgomery. Also planned is a museum, From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, to be built near the Montgomery site where slaves were auctioned at market.

The monument “will consist of hundreds of floating concrete columns that will represent each county in the United States and contain the names of more than 4,000 lynching victims”.

It is designed by MASS Design Group from Boston, and will be built on six acres purchased by EJI. According to the EJI, there were over 4000 documented lynchings of black victims between 1877 and 1950; the purpose of the monument is to name and thereby honor them.

Outside of the structure in the surrounding field is another set of columns identical to the ones hanging in the Memorial. These columns, however, are not meant to stay at the Memorial. The outside pillars are intended to be temporary because The Equal Justice Initiative is asking each of the counties which these columns represent to come and claim their monument. They hope that with the claiming of the pillars, there will be a way to see which counties have representatives willing to confront the horrors of their past, and to strive to move forward, and which do not.

~Wikipedia~

~Memorial Honoring Lynching Victims Being Built In Alabama~

Equal Justice Initiative Lynching Museum, Montgomery Alabama Opens in 2018

NowThis Politics

This memorial honors the thousands of African Americans who were lynched between 1877 to 1950

Wes Johnson was about 18 years old when he was murdered in a cotton field in southern Alabama. It was 1937, and according to newspaper reports at the time, a mob of men had dragged him from his jail cell before he could stand trial for the charge against him: assaulting a white woman. Today, only one photograph is known to exist of Johnson, a single picture to preserve his image for posterity – his lifeless body hanging from a tree.

Bryan Stevenson wants to honor the legacy of Johnson, and thousands like him, with a new memorial for victims of lynching in America. Stevenson is a lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates the lynchings of African Americans. To commemorate the victims whose cases they’ve examined, the organization recently bought six acres of land in Montgomery, Alabama and constructed a memorial.  

Last night, April 8, 2018, on 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey gets an early look at the memorial, which will open to the public on April 26. The memorial contains 805 steel markers, one for each county where lynchings occurred for more than 70 years following the Civil War.

The markers are suspended in air to evoke the horror of being hanged.

~~EJI Memorial~~

~~Published on Aug 15, 2016~~

The Equal Justice Initiative plans to build a national memorial to victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama, which is expected to open in 2018.

~Equal Justice Initiative~

To tell that story on 60 Minutes, Winfrey and a team of producers felt it was important to show historical photos of lynchings, images that are likely to disturb many viewers. In an interview with 60 Minutes Overtime, Denise Schrier Cetta, the producer of the story, and Jeff Fager, the executive producer of the broadcast, explain their decision to air such upsetting photographs.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-60-minutes-aired-photos-of-lynchings-in-report-by-oprah/

~GALLERY~

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~~Why 60 Minutes aired disturbing photos of lynchings in report by Oprah~~

~~Published on Apr 8, 2018~~

The reason behind the broadcast’s decision to show graphic photographs of lynchings in this week’s report by contributor Oprah Winfrey.

60 Minutes

#OprahWinfrey #60Minutes #ArchitectureBuiltToHeal  #TheMemorialToPeaceAndJustice #BuiltInAlabama #BryanStevenson #HonorLegacy #MemorialForLynchingVictims #LawyerFounder #EqualJusticeInitiative

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

~Oprah Winfrey gets first look inside memorial to the victims of lynchings~

~~Published on Apr 6, 2018~~

The new memorial is dedicated to the thousands of victims of lynchings that took place over a 70-year period following the Civil War

~~The Sculpture of Slavery~~

~~Published on Apr 8, 2018~~

The man behind the new lynching memorial in Alabama says to understand lynching, you have to understand slavery.

Emma González …. “🙏🏽 March for Our Lives …. Eloquent, Stirring Speech …. What a Strong Message! 🙏🏽 …. “!!

~~March 25, 2018~~ 

… ‘and the children shall lead’ … 

WOULD NEVER

Ever since Valentine’s Day 2018, the day the Parkland, Florida mass shooting happened, this phrase has become ingrained in my mind.

These teenagers are taking over this sad American reality.

Like Emma, there are plenty others. There are those we know already by name who have been thrust into adulthood too soon. They have taken their role as serious as the reality is.

They are claiming their future as they should.

Here’s one of the many examples seen on March 24, 2018 …

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

#NeverAgain … #Enough

HortyRex©

Emma González honored the Parkland shooting victims at the March for Our Lives with six minutes of silence, the amount of time it took for the shooter to kill 17 people.

WOULD NEVER … 

~~Emma Gonzalez’s POWERFUL March For Our Lives Speech~~

~~Published on Mar 24, 201 ~~

Emma González’s powerful six minutes of silence speech at the Washington DC March For Our Lives rally

#EmmaGonzalez #WouldNever #PowerfulSpeech #WashingontDC #ParklandFlorida #ParklandShootingSurvivors #ChangeCanHappen #GunControl #MarchForOurLives #NeverAgain #BePositive #BePassionate #BeProudToBeAnEagle #AndTheChildrenShallLead #MarjoryStonemanDouglasHighSchool #MSDStrong

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

PULSE Tribute …. “Dear Evan Hansen: You Will Be Found …. One Year Later …. “!!

~~June 23 ,2017~~ 

MOVING RENDITION

It’s been one year since the worse night that the city of Orlando, Florida, has experienced.

I could very easily could have been at Pulse that night.

This will never be forgotten.

One too many lost … gone too soon!

HortyRex©

~Dear Evan Hansen Song in Memory of the Orlando Victims~

In recognition of the one-year anniversary of the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where, on June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 others were wounded, the creators of mashup music videos #HAM4BEY have released their newest collaboration: a moving rendition of “You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hansen in memory of the victims.

The music video series was created by artist Michael Korte.

The performers featured are Mario Jose, Vincint, Danielle Withers, and Eric Lyn.

The track was arranged by David Rowen, with vocal production by Alexander Blake. The video was filmed and edited by Baxter Stapleton.

On June 12, 2016 – the same day as the Tony Awards – a gunman opened fire around 2 AM in Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, where more than 300 people were inside.

The attack marked one of the deadliest against the LGBTQ community in the nation’s history.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.playbill.com/article/creators-ham4bey-release-you-will-be-found-tribute-to-pulse

~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~ 

Google Images

DISCLAIMER

I do not own these images.

No intention of taking credit.

If anyone knows the owner of any, please advise and it will be corrected immediately.

HortyRex©

~~GALLERY~~

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Creators #HAM4BEY Released “You Will Be Found” Tribute to Pulse

BY OLIVIA CLEMENT
JUN 09, 2017

#OrlandoVictims #MajorityOfVictims #LatinasAndLatinos #PuertoRican #LatinAmericanPuertoRicanCommunity #LargestMassShooting #AmericanHistory #LevelOfHatred #PrejudicialCrimes #AttackOnHumanity #PulseNightClub #OrlandoLGBTCommunity #GayNightClub #PulseGayClub #Massacre #HateCrime #WeArePulse #Central Florida #OrlandoNightclubShooting #OrlandoUnited #DearEvanHansen #YouWillBeFound #OneYearLater #MichaelKorte #Performers #MarioJose #Vincint #DanielleWithers #EricLyn

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

~~You Will Be Found~~

Dear Evan Hansen

~~Published on Jun 9, 2017~~

Pulse Tribute
On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed & 53 others were wounded at Pulse in Orlando. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history & the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history.

One year later, we sing for Pulse.

We sing for Orlando. We sing for you. We sing as one.

We will not be silenced.

Michael Korte

We ALL are ONE!! 

IOTD …. Image of the Day …. Special Edition …. “On this day in 1968 …. taken too soon …. “!!

~~April 4, 2017~~ 

ONE MAN FOR ALL MANKIND

On this date, April 4, 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

Forty nine years ago today

“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~

Google Images

DISCLAIMER

I do not own this image.

No intention of taking credit.

HortyRex©

#IOTD #ImageOfTheDay #SpecialEdition #DearBloggerFriend #HerOwnWords #Concept #Serious #OneManForAll #OnThisDate #RevDrMartinLutherKingJr #Killed #Memphis, #Tennessee #CivilRightsLeader #QualityNotLongevity #OfOnesLife #IsWhatIsImportant #Quote #HugeLoss #ForAllMankind

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

We ALL are ONE!! 

IOTD …. Images of the Day …. Special Edition …. “Rainbow Flag …. created by Gilbert Baker …. “!!

~~April 1, 2017~~ 

REST IN PRIDE

~Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker Dead at 65~

Thank you Gilbert for giving our community one of our greatest gifts.

You are a trailblazer for #LGBTQ youth around the world.

You will be missed!

It Gets Better Project

Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an openly gay American artist and civil rights activist who designed the rainbow flag in 1978. Baker’s flag became widely associated with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of pride that became ubiquitous in the decades since its debut.

The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community.

When Baker raised the first rainbow flags at San Francisco Pride (his group raised two flags at the Civic Center) on June 25, 1978, it had eight colors, each with a symbolic meaning:

Hot Pink: sexuality
Red: life
Orange: healing
Yellow: sunlight
Green: nature
Turquoise: magic/art
Blue: serenity/harmony
Violet: spirit

~Wikipedia~

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~ 

Facebook Timeline

It Gets Better Project

https://www.facebook.com/itgetsbetterproject/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

DISCLAIMER

I do not own these images.

No intention of taking credit.

If anyone knows the owner of any, please advise and it will be corrected immediately.

HortyRex©

#IOTD #ImageOfTheDay #SpecialEdition #DearBloggerFriend #HerOwnWords #Concept #Serious #ItGetsBetterProject #GilbertBaker #OpenlyGay #AmericanArtist #CivilRightsActivist #DesignedRainbowFlag #Colors #ReflectDiversity #LGBTQCommunity #RestInPride

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

~~How The Pride Rainbow Flag Came To Be~~ 

NBC News

~~Published on Jun 23, 2016~~

It all started with $1,000 and 1,000 yards of fabric. Hear from Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow pride flag.

We ALL are ONE!! 

IOTD …. Image of the Day …. Special Edition …. “after terror attack on London …. “!!

~~March 24, 2017~~ 

LONDON TERROR ATTACK

Britain suffers its worst terrorist attack since 2005
A car, a kitchen knife and an Islamist-inspired killer bring chaos to central London

ISIS claims responsibility for deadly rampage outside Parliament building.

~SOURCE~

http://www.economist.com

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~ 

Princess Sassy Pants & Co.

https://www.facebook.com/princesssassypantsco/?ref=br_rs

#IOTD #ImageOfTheDay #SpecialEdition #DearBloggerFriend #HerOwnWords #Concept #Serious #LondonAttack #TerrorInLondon #PrayersAndThoughts #Car #KitchenKnife #IslamistInspiredKiller #Chaos #CentralLondon #ISISClaimsResponsibility #DeadlyRampage #OutsideParliamentBuilding #InSolidarity #PrincessSassyPantsAndCompany #JaneLeeLogan

#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexach

We ALL are ONE!!