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Only a few people have ever heard of the African Roman Emperor who influenced Britain in the first century. His name is Lucius Septimius Severus, born on 11 April 145 and died on 4 February 211. He was a black Roman Emperor born in Leptis Magna,... moreOnly a few people have ever heard of the African Roman Emperor who influenced Britain in the first century. His name is Lucius Septimius Severus, born on 11 April 145 and died on 4 February 211. He was a black Roman Emperor born in Leptis Magna, present-day Al-Khums in Libya. Severus was born into a family of great wealth and they were distinguished and of equestrian rank. His mother was of Italian descent and his father was from North Africa. He was the first emperor born into a regional family of non-Italian origin.
His mother’s ancestors came from Italy to North Africa. They belonged to the gens Fulvia, an Italian aristocratic family that had its origins in Tusculum.
His father was an unknown provincial with no political status. He had two cousins who served as consuls under emperor Antoninus Pius between 138 and 161. They were named Publius Septimius Severus and Gaius Septimius Severus.
The Influence Of Septimius Severus on the British.
He responded to the cry for help by the British governor. He needed protection from brigands who were attacking British citizens.
In response to the danger, he built the walls of Roman London, about a square mile to help protect London. These walls are defined by what Septimius Severus did for Britain.
He set up camp in York and fought alongside garrisons to help protect London from the dangers. After killing the incoming emperor, Didius Julianus, he fought other claimants to the throne and defeated them.
The claimants were Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger was defeated at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia, while Albinus was defeated three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul. A short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier won him the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province.
He waged wars in the east against the Parthian Empire and sacked the capital in 197. This helped to expand his territory on the eastern frontier to Tigris. His territory increased and was fortified at Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea.
He campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes in 202. He captured their capital Garama and expanded the Limes Tripolitanus close to the southern desert frontier.
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Sadly #TheJohnnyBrightIncident is example of the price many BP have paid having a neediness to integrate with the most violent predators on this planet.
By all historical accounts the eurobeasts are above all in their propensity of calculated evilness.... moreSadly #TheJohnnyBrightIncident is example of the price many BP have paid having a neediness to integrate with the most violent predators on this planet.
By all historical accounts the eurobeasts are above all in their propensity of calculated evilness. Not only only are these creatures maliciously calculating, but the REWARDED greatly for their egregious violent actions.
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HISTORY: 1951 10/20 #TheJohnnyBrightIncident was a violent on-field assault against #AfricanAmerican player #JohnnyBright. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Br…
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.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning sequence of photos showing the first hit on Johnny Bright by Wilbanks Smith
Johnny Bright's participation as a halfback/quarterback in the collegiate football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies on October 20, 1951, at Lewis Field was controversial even before it began. Bright had been the first African-American football player to play at Lewis Field two years prior (without incident). In 1951, Bright was a pre-season Heisman Trophy candidate and led the nation in total offense. Bright had never played for a losing team in his college career. Coming into the contest, Drake carried a five-game winning streak, owing much to Bright's rushing and passing abilities.
It was an open secret that Oklahoma A&M players were targeting Bright. Both Oklahoma A&M's student newspaper, The Daily O'Collegian, and the local newspaper, The News Press, reported that Bright was a marked man, and several A&M students were openly claiming that Bright "would not be around at the end of the game". Although Oklahoma A&M had integrated in 1949, the Jim Crow spirit was still very much alive on campus.
During the first seven minutes of the game, Bright was knocked unconscious three times by blows from Oklahoma A&M defensive tackle Wilbanks Smith. While Smith's final elbow blow broke Bright's jaw, he was still able to complete a 61-yard touchdown pass to Drake halfback Jim Pilkington a few plays later.[1] Soon afterward, the injury forced him to leave the game. Bright finished the game with less than 100 yards, the first time in his three-year collegiate career. Oklahoma A&M eventually won 27–14.
Bob Spiegel, a reporter with the Des Moines Register, interviewed several spectators after the game, eventually publishing a report on the incident in the October 30, 1951, issue of the newspaper. According to Spiegel's report, several of the Oklahoma A&M students he interviewed overheard an Oklahoma A&M coach repeatedly say "Get that nigger" whenever the A&M practice squad ran Drake plays against the Oklahoma A&M starting defense prior to the October 20 game.
Spiegel also recounted the experiences of a businessman and his wife, who were seated behind a group of Oklahoma A&M practice squad players. At the beginning of the game, one of the players turned around said, "We're gonna get that nigger.”
After the first blow to Bright was delivered by Smith, the same player again turned around and told the businessman, "See that knot on my jaw? That same guy [Smith] gave me that the very same way in practice.
Oklahoma A&M's president, Oliver Willham, denied anything happened even after evidence of the incident was published nationwide. This began a cover-up that would last over half a century; during that time, whenever the story was discussed, the standard response from A&M/OSU was "no comment". The determination to gloss over the affair was so strong that when Robert B. Kamm succeeded Willham in 1966, he knew that he could not even discuss the matter even though he had been Drake's dean of men at the time of the incident. less
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http://www.cbpm.org/index.html continued: Each label for each smaller organization carries with it philosophical assumptions about our identity and shared experiences across history and geography, some of which I don't agree with. There is no consensus... morehttp://www.cbpm.org/index.html continued: Each label for each smaller organization carries with it philosophical assumptions about our identity and shared experiences across history and geography, some of which I don't agree with. There is no consensus on identity within this coalition. Consensus on a united Black label is necessary to identify problems associated with a set of shared experiences defined by an identity label and solutions for them. To me, these multiple labels reflect disunity in political philosophies and strategies within this coalition. Please respond to my polls, especially on Black labels. In order for Black Americans to unite over anything, we need to have to agree by vote or debate on one identity label and the historical and sociological reasons why. #blacknationalism, #blackpower, #cbpm, #fundraising, #coalition, #black, #african, #africanamerican, #unity, #disunity, #polls less
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I found this link for the Collective Black People's Movement at http://www.cbpm.org/index.html. It looks like a coalition of smaller black organizations raising funds and sharing it with each other, maybe, but they are still just doing their own things.... moreI found this link for the Collective Black People's Movement at http://www.cbpm.org/index.html. It looks like a coalition of smaller black organizations raising funds and sharing it with each other, maybe, but they are still just doing their own things. It is sort of what I would like to see, but not quite. I suspect funds will be shared and spent subject to the whims of local leaders of each smaller organization within the coalition, focusing on pet projects and salaries that have no national impact. I don't think their activities are strategic in nature. The coalition may just exist for fundraising purposes. The reason why I think that it is because the organizations associated with this coalition label themselves differently. Some call it a African, African-American, or Black organizations. #blacknationalism, #blackpower, #cbpm, #fundraising, #coalition, #black, #african, #africanamerican, #unity, #disunity, #polls less
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