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No. Keep the Texas State Board in. If they approve it, the rest of the country can't use it.You'll sometimes make mistakes, but 98% of the time you'll be right.

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"It’s obvious to me, hearing that York was a ‘playmate’, that he was a constant source for entertainment through abuse." No, I think it just means that they were of similar age, and were together a lot as children.

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As the term’s definition would imply. But the fact that Clark was so harsh to him, and the rest of the context of York’s efforts being shit upon by Clark, and that instead of freeing him as thanks for his assistance and long term ‘companionship’ he instead chose to sell him to a harsher abuser... kinda makes my case.

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York brought another valuable asset to the expedition that's often overlooked: "

"Clark’s black slave,York, was a novelty to the tribes and did as muchas anyone. While visiting the Arikara tribe, a warrior volunteered to stand guard outside a lodge all night while York and his wife were inside. On one evening with the Mandan tribe, York was offered four women."

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Not unless they put a bird on it.

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I assume that from childhood it was made plain to Clark that he could do anything to York and York couldn't do anything back.

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as per my non-comment near the beginning, York https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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What a lovely essay. And by lovely I mean style.

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York could be the subject of a good movie, but I still want someone to film the story of Robert Smalls. Now there was one badass SOB.

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You can count in it! It's a statue!

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Thank you, SER.

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They never really got out of that basement.

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Can't they run a current through it? Someone will wreck it! It's so good and immaculate now-- it will be wrecked and be on all the news and they won't know who did it and this will depress everybody.

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That reminds me of the tornado that blew down the huge Jesus Saves sign but left unscathed that sign beside it on the very same frame for the strip club with the gross picture on it.

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