20191224

Tue Dec 24 06:00:02 EST 2019 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven. Woke a couple times in the night. Colder. Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Wide, beautiful rosy dawn. To do: - Wrap presents Done. - 1 PM lunch with Ed Done. - Charity donations Rewatched episodes of The Mighty Boosh. https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party > From 1969 through the early 1970s, the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program fed tens of thousands of hungry kids. It was just one facet of a wealth of social programs created by the party—and it helped contribute to the existence of federal free breakfast programs today. > School officials immediately reported results in kids who had free breakfast before school. “The school principal came down and told us how different the children were,” Ruth Beckford, a parishioner who helped with the program, said later. “They weren’t falling asleep in class, they weren’t crying with stomach cramps.” > Soon, the program had been embraced by party outposts nationwide. At its peak, the Black Panther Party fed thousands of children per day in at least 45 programs. (Food wasn’t the only part of the BPP’s social programs; they expanded to cover everything from free medical clinics to community ambulance services and legal clinics.) > Free food seemed relatively innocuous, but not to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed the Black Panther Party and declared war against them in 1969. He called the program “potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for,” and gave carte blanche to law enforcement to destroy it. > The results were swift and devastating. FBI agents went door-to-door in cities like Richmond, Virginia, telling parents that BPP members would teach their children racism. In San Francisco, writes historian Franziska Meister, parents were told the food was infected with venereal disease; sites in Oakland and Baltimore were raided by officers who harassed BPP members in front of terrified children, and participating children were photographed by Chicago police. > “The night before [the first breakfast program in Chicago] was supposed to open,” a female Panther told historian Nik Heynan, “the Chicago Twenty-minute walk in the afternoon. A dim day, but not cold. I'm mildly surprised there isn't more mutual interest between the Forteans and William S. Burroughs. Though, Burroughs apparently published a short piece in one a zine Keel ran. Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 2/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: pineapple Brunch: left-over pizza, cucumber, coffee Lunch: fish and chips, two beers Afternoon snack: banana, apple, carrots Dinner: left-over fish and chips

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