ups have a small, erect flower on a long stem (hence the name). Feel free to create design patterns with these related plants.
Snapdragons are pastel colored biennials which also do well when planted in conjunction with pansies. They grow taller than pansies and Johnny-jump-ups can be used as borders, or can be planted on the ends of pansy plantings in order to have descending height from the edges to the center of an arrangement.
Pansies like full sun. If you try to force them to grow in the shade you will be disappointed. This is why if you replace impatiens with pansies you will have poor results. Evergreen ferns, coral bells and Lenten rose should be planted amongst impatiens for winter interest in shady settings.
The flowering cabbages and kales are also good winter annuals and they go well with pansy plantings. Because they are taller they can also border your design. Also, telstar dianthus and English daisies bloom in fall and early spring and provide a nice complement when used with these plants.
November is bulb month. Bulb planters are patient people who know that a little work now will provide a great deal of enjoyment later. Bulb planters should enjoy a more elevated position in our society. If you are a bulb planter, my hat is off to you. While you are anonymously toiling away this fall please know the world will appreciate all you do this coming spring.
Daffodils are perhaps the easiest bulb to plant. They multiply more than other bulbs and provide enjoyment every winter for years to come. They like full sun, but can be planted in deep woods. If this seems like a contradiction, it is because daffodils bloom before the leaves come out on the trees. The sight of daffodils blooming in the snow is wonderful.
Tulips are perhaps the showiest of the bulbs. Use them liberally, but be aware that our temperatures are really a little hot for tulips. Tulips do best when dug up in early summer after the foliage dies down. Store them in a paper bag in a cool, dark basement or crawl space and replant them next fall. If you don't dig up your tulips, be prepared for about a third of them to die out each year, until none are left. If you want to, you can replant a third of your tulips each year and not worry about digging them up in the summer. Muscari, hyacinth, crocus, etc. are all good bulbs to use in our area.
Most bulbs abhor our red clay. Dig out the clay, and scarify the hole that is left to lessen the bathtub effect. The bathtub effect is created when hard clay is scooped out and back-filled with a soft amendment. The amendment holds water which won't percolate into the red clay. It's the same as adding soft amendment into a bathtub and turning on the water. It becomes a soupy mess. Scarification of the sides and bottom of the hole leads to a transition area that aids in percolation. A soupy mess leads to rotten bulbs. Likewise, if you have an area that has poor drainage, you should not consider bulbs.
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Friday, February 27, 2015.Day 4 of White History Month: Criminalizing Blackness, Part 3 - Blackness as Criminality, Whiteness as Virtue and Innocence
[TW: rape]
[Images: “Criminal Penalties by Race in Virginia” from The Color of Crime, Amnesty USA [x], “Report on Stand Your Ground Laws Highlight Racial Disparities”]
“Whiteness” was created in opposition to “blackness,” in comparison to which it was not only different but quite superior. Indeed, from the seventeenth century forward black women, men, and children were “constructed as lazy, ignorant, lascivious, and criminal; Whites as industrious, knowledgeable, virtuous, and law-abiding.” - Joe Feagin, Racist America
While Black Americans have been cast as criminals and sentenced unfairly throughout history, this is not only a result of the strict criminal justice system in the United States. Black Americans have rarely been considered legitimate victims, even in a legal sense; white Americans have benefitted from this. Many white Americans who are viewed in a positive light today, including the Founders and many Presidents of the United States, are celebrated for the unspeakable acts they committed.
Criminal Justice
In nearly all cases of white racial mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, no one was punished. The victim simply died “at the hands of persons unknown." despite the fact that the perpetrators were often known (and police officers were often involved in this mob violence themselves). Lynching was extremely common, yet efforts to pass anti-lynching laws were ignored by white congressmen and when introduced, failed. When the victims were Black, and particularly when the perpetrators were white, legal interventions were virtually unheard of.
Sexual Violence
During slavery, Black women were considered unrapeable: white men could rape Black women without punishment. Black men could rape Black women with no punishment except in cases where a Black woman was injured severely enough to prevent work. The unpunished rape of Black women was not limited to Southerners, as Northern soldiers during the Civil War also sexually assaulted Black women. This continued after slavery, all while a Black man could be lynched for (fabricated) rationalizations of protecting white womanhood.
An accurate account of historical sexual violence during slavery would be that of the white male rapist and Black female victim (and occasionally white women implicating innocent Black men). Instead, the stereotypes that emerged (and continued on today) are those of the Jezebel, the Black male rapist, and the virtuous, chaste white woman.
For many years, Black women could not be considered victims of rape. White men continued to assault Black women. Unlike white women, Black women largely worked outside the home and were vulnerable to assault by both white male employers and white supremacist groups such as the KKK.
Media
In The Birth of a Nation, racial oppression was glorified. White supremacists, particularly the KKK, were turned into heroes. Black people were reduced to harmful anti-Black stereotypes in order to justify white supremacy.
Contemporary Examples
Criminal Justice
Black women are sexually assaulted at a higher rate than white women. When Black women are sexually assaulted and the case is reported and goes to trial, white juries and judges do not take it seriously. As a result, rapists of Black women received lighter sentences than when the victims are white. Additionally, the testimony of Black female rape victims is taken less seriously than that of white rape victims.
The majority of death row defendants have been convicted for murdering white victims even while Black Americans make up approximately half of homicide victims.
Stand Your Ground
Stand Your Ground laws have resulted in cases with white murderers and Black victims being ruled as justifiable homicides. Much of the focus in these cases was not on the adult white men who had murdered, but on the character of the victims. The recent case of Trayvon Martin is an example of this - even when the white offender has a criminal history, he is privileged over a Black victim. The focus shifted to make Zimmerman’s murder of Trayvon Martin appear as justifiable or even as beneficial. Similarly, Michael Dunn murdered Jordan Davis after he refused to turn down his music. There is no situation in which this would be acceptable, yet the jury could not even decide on a murder charge.
In many publicized cases where white men killed innocent Black victims, the police were hesitant to even pursue the criminal, and the prosecution was not eager to proceed. Many white Americans instead suggested to focus on “Black-on-