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sorcerer said:
That mite be it too, since I took Texas History last semester. Texas pre-union was mad interesting. Professor told us about this thing called the Black Bean Episode and it was my fav story from that class.

It began with the failure of the Somerville Expedition, which was created in retaliation of Mexico's brief raid and capture of San Antonio plus some other place. Like 500 something men on the expedition with crushed moral who had to walk all the way back home on a retreat.
189 people did follow the retreat order, but 5 captains and most of the regular men split off to form the Mier Expedition. The Mier Expedition had the goal of crossing the border and raiding the town of Mier, along with other towns, but a hiccup in their transportation of supplies ultimately lead to their surrender once Mexican forces demanded they surrender. They had battled before, but had used up most of their supplies during the battle and were in no condition for a rematch.

The captured were marched to Matamoros, but before the walk an order of execution was given by whoever was in charge of the Mexican troops at the time. The expedition was unauthorized by the state of Texas, according to Sam Houston, so Mexico had no obligation to treat them like POWs.
Initially, the leader of the troops retracted his order, but after several groups of prisoners attempted to escape during the journey to Matamoros, Santa Anna had given the order of execution once again. This time towards the 176 prisoners who had attempted escapes but failed.
Once they got there, the new dude in charge of the Mexican troops compromised and decided to execute 1/10th of the prisoners. They filled a jar with 159 white beans and 17 black beans and passed it around the line of prisoners. If you pulled a white bean, you were fine. If you pulled a black bean, you would later be shot and killed.

When he was telling us about this all I could think about was how fucking despairful it must be to be in that situation. Professor said a lot of the men were laughing and joking during this cause I guess they were good sports about it, but I'd be terrified watching that jar make it's way over to me.

And yeah, black bean dudes got shot. White bean dudes were released. One dude named James Shepherd pulled a black bean and got shot but survived and pretended to be dead until he could make his escape late at night. He made it sorta far but eventually was recaptured again and shot once again. Not his lucky day.
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one of my great-greats drew a white bean, cool you've discussed this story in class. I was raised thinking dark history tales were normal bedtime fodder and that making gravestone rubbings across the US counted as a standard summer road trip. usually aced history courses, so thanks ma! :LOL:
Mr Moore said:
It’s vinyl. Continue.



Dammit.
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I am in stitches.
 
TheMythOfSisyphus said:
Thank you for posting this. I thought about it reading these threads, but I was too lazy (and at work) to grab it.

Segue...that stand-up special had a couple highlights but was overall lazy and not that funny. There was some offensive stuff but comedy should have the right to offend (especially annoying when a person cherry picks only what pertains to them personally to be offended about and gives a pass to everything else); but, really, it just wasn't that inspired. His last special was way better.
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The epilogue was better than the special.

I think part of the deal was he wanted to shock the audience so that he could (through comedy) have a conversation about exactly what we are talking about with cancel culture. It was like it was all built to get us to the punch line. I don’t think it was lazy, I just think it failed a bit.
 
sorcerer said:
Since we're on the topic of words, I'll say that its really immature to get up in someone's face over them saying "vinyls." Its not like you dont know what they're saying. Stopping them in the middle of their talk just to chastise them for using the grammatically incorrect pluralization of a word is just you being an ass.
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But I am a self admitted ass, I.e. get the fuck off my lawn with your skinny jeans and your vinyls.
 
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