[alexander_busek]

[...] we stand on stolen land toiled by enslaved Africans [...]

We gave them our language, too - but they misuse it.

One cannot toil land. Perhaps they mean "tilled?!"

Regards,

[River Hawk]

LOL, good point!

[frank ballenger]

You’re right. Was it meant to be toiled or tilled?

“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”

Daniel Webster

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The great bluesman Buddy Guy recalled in his autobiography having to guide a plow while holding the reins in a wagon drawn by a mule when he was young. The hot Louisiana sun beat down on him on the sharecropper parents’ farm and he said there is no more nauseating smell than a mule passing gas and dropping wet crap ahead of you. That would be toil.

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Current welfare recipients—

Avoiding toil
this land they spoil
and with riots roil
the laws they foil
and our cities they soil.

-I made up just now.