Badass Black History
This post is about badass Black History legends. Les go!
In the Jim Crow era a 19 year old Black woman hopped on a motorcycle and rode across the US. Bessie Stringfield not only rode alone across America during the 1930s and 40s, she did the same in Europe, Brazil, and Haiti. She'd toss a penny on a map and where it landed is where she went. Bad to da bone!
Bass Reeves was the first Black US Marshall west of the Mississippi. He patrolled Arkansas and the Oklahoma Territory between 1875 and 1893. He arrested around 3,000 felons and killed 14 men in self-defense. It's been pretty much confirmed that the fictional character the Lone Ranger was based on Bass Reeves, they simply made him a white man instead.
I'm convinced Marshall Reeves' first name is shorthand for "Badass".

This "Try me" expression is perfection!

