The Johnny Bright incident was a violent on-field assault against African-American player Johnny Bright by a white opposing player during an American college football game held on October 20, 1951, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The game was significant in itself as it marked the first time that an African-American athlete with a national profile and of critical importance to the success of his team, the Drake Bulldogs, had played against Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) at Oklahoma A&M's Lewis Field. Bright's injury also highlighted the racial tensions of the times and assumed notoriety when it was captured in what was later to become both a widely disseminated and eventually Pulitzer Prize–winning photo sequence.
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There's over 50 Right Stripping anti-gay, woman, transgender, parental and EVEN teacher rights being stripped from innocent Oklahomans! These are truly diabolical people and it's time to protect yourself and pick up your phone for these folks!
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The order requires state agencies and institutes for higher education to initiate a review of DEI positions, departments, activities, procedures, and programs to eliminate and dismiss non-critical personnel. State agencies and institutions for higher education shall not utilize state funds, property, or resources to:
1. Grant or support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures, or programs to the extent they grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;
2. mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures, or programming to the extent such education, training, activity, or procedure grants preferences based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;
3. mandate any person swear, certify, or agree to any loyalty oath that favors or prefers one particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another;
4. mandate any person to certify or declare agreement with, recognition of, or adherence to, any particular political, philosophical, religious, or other ideological viewpoint;
5. mandate any applicant for employment provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement or give any applicant for employment preferential consideration based on the provision of such a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; or
6. mandate any person to disclose their pronouns.
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In 1972, the state of Washington created the [Master Gardener] program to meet an enormous increase in requests from Home Gardeners for Horticultural information [...] Sixty years ago, an Extension Educator dealt with the questions of a few hundred families. However, in many regions, land that once constituted a single Family Farm now encompasses several hundred homes. This increased the number of families an Extension Office serves. In addition, many of these families are recent arrivals, and are unfamiliar with what grows in the microenvironment of their new Suburban home. They will often call their local Extension Office for advice on what to plant and how to care for it.
The [Master Gardener] program is now found in 49 states and 4 Canadian provinces. [Master Gardeners] have become a vital part of [the Extension Service's] ability to provide consumers with up-to-date, reliable knowledge [...] Master Gardening has also become a fun and useful volunteer activity, which has given its participants a sense of community spirit, fellowship, accomplishment, and intellectual stimulation.
From Master Gardener’s Manual E-1034; Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University (My Ko-Fi Here)
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Of course they’ll go after those who revealed their disgraceful conversation rather than admit fault among themselves. What cowards, hiding behind the badge. It tells you something that even Oklahoma Republicans are calling for their resignations.
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