inventing cupcakes about them<\/a>. Some projects grip me for years at a time. This could very well be one of those projects.<\/p>\nI am a bit worried about the space that this project will consume. I have already spent hours on this project. Out of those hours I barely have a plan. I don\u2019t know what this will look like. These are the types of things that I like to know before I embark upon a project.<\/p>\n
It seems rather appropriate, however, that educating oneself about the long history of American black and white race riots would entail some entropy, no?<\/p>\n
I suspect that this project will morph as I learn more and I am resolving to be okay with that. This is a project about educating myself.<\/p>\n
But for now, I have put up some basic ground rules for myself.<\/p>\n
Based on a couple of sources, yes Wikipedia is one of them, I have composed a list of race riots to explore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve numbered them.<\/p>\n
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The chance that I will add to or subtract from this list of events.<\/p>\n
I will use a random number generator to determine the order of my learning.<\/p>\n
I will research these events as I move through this project. It\u2019s likely that I\u2019ll share other things I learn along the way as I go through this process. This blog serves as a record of this experience.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t been this excited about a project since I started Head of State Cakes.<\/p>\n
Let the learning begin!<\/p>\n
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