**What has changed, what hasn’t…. Yes?**

May 17th, 1875
Aristides is the horse that wins the very first Kentucky Derby at the Louisville Jockey Club. How many of the 15 jockeys do you think were African-Americans? Take your time. Fourteen. A better question might be WHY has that kind of thing changed. And WHEN did it first start to change? Why not get your acquaintances who are interested in sports, and who want zero to do with social change…research that for you? That might be a way to make inroads in recruiting through the backdoor, yes? Interesting name for the pony, yes? What with what’s happening vis-a-vis Haiti, yes?

Same date…1974: 500 L.A. cops surround a home in Compton –same place where a hundred rounds were fired at a motorist cops had been chasing, an unarmed motorist who had been cornered and *stopped*– and rout a group of so-called terrorists known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. Earlier, the SLA had kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Six SLA members died in the raid.

The numbers in the SLA raid remind me of the outnumbered Native Americans…who battled with Geronimo for three decades against invading, marauding/murderous Euros. In 1885 on this same date…the Apache Indian chief…last Native American to surrender to the U.S. Whites…broke out of his Arizona reservation incarceration…for the second time. But he couldn’t get his homeland back. They still can’t, can they? See a proposal designed to help them do so, Buffalo Commons Cum Indian Territory: An Uncommon Need/Demand. The version of this “Buffalo Commons” article might be a more updated one; it has some back and forth (51 comments) attached to the piece.