Stevie Joe Payne
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U. S. Navy 1961-1965. I am a high school dropout who finished high school at 23 post navy, started college at 29, and graduated at 57. Sense of humor 27½ %.
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@Johnny_Cage10
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. " Edward Everett Hale
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I'm a real threat, 76 years of age, rheumatoid arthritis, spasmodic dysphonia. Shirts are about the only weapon I have.
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This is Dakota, a host at the Longhorn Steakhouse in Tulsa. He looks just like my son. I asked if I could hug him and then I stood there bawling like a baby. He came over and said that I had made his day. I learned that he lost his father last year.
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My hardware is male, 1944 model, minimal pigment. My software is that was I raised in small town Pawhuska, Oklahoma in the 1950's. My software has been updated numerous times. Recent software update reflected in attached image.
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When Colin Kaepernick took a knee, I took a knee. I wasn't in a packed stadium but I did what I could, where I could.
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I've been given a second chance. When I was a young man I didn't do enough to voice my convictions because I was a coward.
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Got my first one for 2023 already. As we were entering the IHOP, a young man exiting gave me a hostile look. He returned shortly, "Don't all lives matter?" I replied, "Not until black lives matter just as much as all other lives." There was no further reply to me.
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We stopped at the
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I took a knee when Colin Kaepernick did.
If Eminem triggered you while he took a knee…and the national anthem wasn’t playing…then it wasn’t about the fricken’ anthem after all.
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Eric Trump called people of Black Lives Matter animals. This is what an animal looks like.
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There is a book where the couple is nude until the authority forces them to wear clothing. They have premarital sex and have two sons. One son kills the other. There is no record if they ever married. The book is filled with violence, murder and torture and it's a best seller.
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I try. It makes four years that I have worn only shirts that support black Americans.
102 years ago, the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa – Black Wall Street – was attacked by a white supremacist mob that burned down their homes and businesses, killing hundreds of people and injuring hundreds more.
Today, let us honor the legacy of Tulsa — not just with words but…
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Today is my 79th birthday. My weight this morning is 187.0 lbs. My goal weight is 170 lbs. I am 5' 6½" tall.
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When we were exiting Walmart a man came over to talk to me. I assumed he was going to ask to see my receipt. Instead, he leaned over close to me and quietly said "Thank you for what you do." I asked, "With my shirts?" "Yes, it is greatly appreciated." He was a white man.
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I picked up sandwiches for lunch at Quiktrip and a man was armed. He couldn't have done anything because he was distracted talking with both hands carrying food. But I wish you could have seen the look he gave me when he saw my shirt this shirt.
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I'm 79 years old. I worked for one company for 33½ years, several other companies for years, and I was in the navy for 4 years. I'm too goddamned old for congress to be screwing around with my life like they are. I'm mad as hell. I want to enjoy the time I have left. F-them!
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Will they be teaching an opposing view to the Bible?
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My first wife and I had one child. We lost three to miscarriages. Stephen was born in 1967. I put a purple bear in his casket in 2003 and closed the lid. Then I cried. That is the last memory I have burned into my mind of my son. He was 36. Go ahead, send them to school.
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I did this back when Colin Kaepernick was getting flack so it's an older photograph. I took a knee.
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I'll tell you the hard truth. I haven't lived since my son died. I go on like a machine because the machine is still running. I still learn and I enjoy things but I died the day I put the purple bear in his casket and closed the lid. But send your kids to school.
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I want it to be understood that most things I do now are not for me. I'm voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because I'm voting for women, all marginalized people, and the environment. I'm 80 years old, so I won't benefit much myself from what I am voting for.
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Fox said Joe Biden should be in a home. He is in one. The White House.
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I am a white male as most know by now. A black man is expected to wear a message shirt with "black lives matter" on it and so he would go almost unnoticed. I am not expected to wear it so I get a second look. That's white privilege at work for change.
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This is simple, right? Wearing a shirt. But I want you to know that it took me a while to work up the courage to wear this shirt out in public in Oklahoma. I started with "Being black is legaI." I was scared to go out. I've had only one obvious bad actor and many "thank you."
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Left, Micah, right Aliese. They came over to me in the Red Lobster and told me that my shirt means a lot to them. Both asked for a hug. Neither saw the tear in my eye. Micah is first generation born American. His father is from Kenya. I'm really grateful for kids like they are.
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I saw a video of an elderly Spanish speaking man yesterday, in which he was talking to Beto only in Spanish. Beto answered him completely in Spanish. Any Latinos who don't vote for Beto just don't understand that they are voting against themselves.
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"Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of black teen Emmett Till in Mississippi, has died in Louisiana." Please take a moment to remember Emmet Till and his mother.
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I can't change you. I don't want to change you. I want you to change yourself if you are racist, misogynistic, a religious bigot. I was but I didn't know it. When I did learn that about myself, I changed me. No one could have changed me, others gave me tools to change myself.
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A young man caught me from behind in Walmart calling "Sir, sir!" I thought I had dropped something. I turned to him and he quietly said "I have seen you in your many shirts. I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your support." It made me feel really good.
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I think Kavanagh will feel forced to resign. In the meantime, I'm worried about the abuse he will put his family through. I've seen mean drunks before.
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We lost Gus this morning. I was holding him in my hands as he died. I was crying so hard the vet could hardly understand me. Charlotte held him in towels wrapped around him as we rushed to the vets office but we knew he was gone. I haven't cried like this in 20 years
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Some women cheered me tonight for my shirt, this one. Red Lobster for my birthday dinner. I told them my birthday is tomorrow, 78. One said "No baby, you can't be! You are blessed with genes." I was wearing Levis.
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I said Donald Trump won't make it to November. I don't think he's going to make it to March 31st. His brain deterioration is rapidly accelerating and we see only a glimpse. His handlers must be horrified. They see it in real time and frequently.
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In Walmart this evening, a young woman talked to me about the Nex Benedict 2008-2024 shirt I was wearing. She came close to crying. She said she was grateful that I was carrying Nex's name. She said that she was used to me in my "Black Lives Matter" shirts.
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Kate Cox will become the name which American women will rally around and bring down the Republican party because of what they have done to her. She represents what can be done to every American woman. American women will go to the polls carrying signs with "Kate Cox" on them.
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When my 1st wife and I were dating, one evening, we began sexual intercourse. After some minutes had passed, she asked me to stop. It was disappointing, but I did stop. In 1994, when Judy and I had started, she asked me to stop. I did. I didn't argue. I just stopped.
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I have reached the age of 80 years old, and I did that just by waking up every day for 29,220 days, one day at a time. I'm impressed, shocked, and disbelieving a bit, but I'm also grateful, even though the machinery is a bit cranky. It's Monday. Hello, sweet Monday.
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@jdlovitz
I often say my shirts are racist detectors because I can simply walk into a restaurant and the visible reactions in people's faces tell me if they are racists and to what degree they are. It's usually old white people. I also get favorable looks.
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I have been absent since Saturday morning. I was in a bad car accident and I have been in the hospital. I'm still in a lot of pain. My sternum was fractured.
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For the second time in my life, I'm really scared. Not startled, not frightened. Scared. The first time was at Cuba in 1962 when I thought we on our ships were going to die and the world was going to end. This time, I'm afraid that Americans are going to let Trump win.
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If thousands show up to give water to people in line to vote, what WILL the officials do?
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@thejackhopkins
I had a collection of shirts. I'm committed to wearing the shirts I wear for justice for black citizens and women.
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My voting face. Gonna vote for all women and they are all Democrats. Joy, Madison, Kendra, Jena,and Warigia.
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We had a late breakfast at the IHOP yesterday and a man facing me, eating alone, didn't like my Black Lives Matter shirt and kept looking up at me showing his displeasure. I imagine he had a miserable breakfast. I had a wonderful breakfast.
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@annthegolfnut
This shirt. The back is "Black Lives Matter." The front honors 4 lives taken by police.
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I wore this shirt to "The Million $$ Quartet" concert last evening. A number of people came over and complimented the shirt.
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Texas won't secede because none of the college teams could play against teams in the United States. None of them, in any sport.
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I didn't ask why a woman changed her mind, I just accepted that she had changed her mind, and I complied. I'm sure that I'm not the only male who has had this happen.
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My indoor outdoor cat Prince came home with a collar last night. I called the woman I thought might have put it in him. The bum has been getting two meals from us and a full meal from her too.
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I'm voting for women in 2024. Then, I'm going to keep voting for women for the rest of my life.
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I was 20, and Connie was 17. With Judy, we were both 50, and we had both been married. I have refrained from writing this until now, but with so much discussion about rape, I feel it's important to know that a male can stop if she asks him to stop.
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My son's grave stone, May 31, 2021. Note the guitar picks on the base. I leave them but it's been three years since I have visited and these are still there.
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Today, February 23, is my son's birthday. He would be 55 today, and I try to imagine what he would be like. He is frozen in time at 36. I remember well the last evening I spent with him, the laughter we shared. I'm so glad we had those hours together. Happy birthday, son.
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Tiger Woods is going to get more press coverage than >500,000 Americans who have died from COVID19 infections and that does bother me.
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"Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. "Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age."
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I thanked Sean, the Quiktrip employee who stood up for me when I was being harassed by the stalker over my shirts and he told me that Quiktrip has banned the man from their stores. I am really grateful 🙏.
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Frankly Oprah has made two mistakes in Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil.
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We made the very difficult decision to put Peanuts to sleep. We had some really good, sweet, loving moments playing with her before. She won't suffer, and we didn't want that. I'm really hurting over it.
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The second amendment is not fine. It was written in the time of muskets, not machine guns. It was meant to provide defense in a time when no standing army existed. It is two hundred years out of date.
@StephenKing
2nd amendment is fine. People should have the right to defend themselves, their families and homes.
But where do we draw the line? Parents of these kids need to be in jail for life. And weapons of war need to be banned forever.
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This date, seventeen years ago, my son, my only child, Stephen William Payne died from type I diabetes complications at age 36. He died in Tyler, Texas in a hospice. My last visit was the evening before. Yes, it still hurts.
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After I voted, I went to Quiktrip to get coffee and I got a cinnamon roll as a reward for voting. While I was doctoring my coffee to taste, a man I would not have imagined would have done so leaned over and quietly said "You are fighting the good fight."
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While we were waiting at Charleston's an older man was sitting near us wearing a cap that said Biden is not president. I got up, went over in front of him like I was looking for someone in the bar area and made sure he saw the back of this shirt "Black Lives Matter."
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@antifaoperative
I wore this shirt today. It upset a man at Weeze's Cafe. Charlotte heard him comment to someone with him, possibly his wife.
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Here's my outfit for the Women's March today in Tulsa.
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I'm just really disappointed tonight that my country has failed us so badly. The whole country has failed when people in the Congress and the Senate are not outraged and on television screaming right now about what Donald Trump did. All my life, this was unforgivable.
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My weight this morning is 191.8 lbs, down from 208 on December.
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I live in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Years ago, there were Trump things. Hats, shirts, pickups with flags, big mouths. There is none of that visible today. I think they are ashamed.
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My son, Stephen William Payne, died September 6, 2003 at age 36 from complications of the type I diabetes that he developed at age 13 when we lived in North Dakota. He died in Texas. I miss him every single day.
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As I was leaving Lowe's yesterday, a man stopped me to talk about my shirt. He is a Delaware Native American. We talked about the fight for equality for black, Latino, Native American, Asian Americans, and women. It's the same fight for all of these. It takes all of us.
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We drove to Copan to get onion rings. When we stood to leave I saw that the man at a table to the corner from us, a few feet away, was wearing a Trump hat. So I took my time helping Charlotte up so he got full exposure to both front and back of my Breonna Taylor shirt.
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My new glasses, after my cataract surgery on December 7th, 2022. I really like them. Charlotte doesn't. I suggested she not wear them. My other glasses with the clear frame were hard to find sometimes because they didn't provide color contrast. I just got them today.
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We're home. The CT scan showed no broken bones, no head injury, just bruises. Thank you, all of you.
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I want you to know that I have been that desperate father with a son addicted to drugs, doing everything I could to get him into and keep him in a drug rehabilitation program, dying myself every day with fear and hopelessness and I've had the same conversation Joe had.
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I'm shirt poor right now. I can't afford any more and I don't have space to store them, but I've made a decision. Whether it's t-shirts or sweat shirts that I buy next order,it will be "Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968" front, "Black Lives Matter" back.
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New glasses I got yesterday. I don't like them because I wear dark frames. This was Charlotte's idea because she doesn't like dark frames on my face but I do.
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I will share two things that I have never shared before. Early on, my son seemed to look like a friend of mine. I had suspected that she might have been with him. I made a decision that it didn't matter because I had already begun to love him deeply. I was going to raise him.
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I woke up feeling around for my cat this morning and couldn't find her in bed because she died Saturday and I'm very upset over her still.
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I learned a powerful lesson from studying Zen, and that is to not defend yourself. At a school reunion, a classmate said "You've gained a lot of weight." I shook his hand, said "Thank you, Bud. I was worried that no one would notice." A woman asked, "What did you say to Bud?"
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On Lawrence, Vindman just said that a captured Russian officer said "He had no idea that they were entering Ukraine." He also said that many Russian soldiers had not had anything to eat.
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I'm a United States Navy veteran, 1961-1965, and I was at Cuba, aboard ship, for the 1962 missile crisis. Please do not allow the hypocrite
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I was in CVS and I met a man as I was entering. He saw my shirt and about ten paces further on he shouted out "Bullshit!" It's useful for rapid racist identification.
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Veteran's Day parade, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Washington County Democrats float. Three old, fat, ugly veterans.
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I hate Oklahoma right now. I have lived here most of my life except for my years in the navy, mostly California, North Dakota, and Texas, for about a total of 11 years absent. But right now it's a backwards, hateful state infected by narrow religious opinions.
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I am out of the hospital, downtown eating a 🍔 and having a Coke.
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