LCSMITH2

Wife, Mom, Educator

[LCSMITH2 @LCSMITH26]

This Saturday, Jan 11th my daughter, along with my niece, and The Gifted Arts are presenting "The Ascension," a three act play. My daughter's playing the lead at the 2pm show, the 2nd show is at 7pm. ☆Please come out and support The Gifted Arts. https://t.co/2A9Yg2yjGW

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women rapęd by ruthless sIave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil Wąr to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KƘK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hųng on trees...

Fought in World Wąrs as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...

and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know, survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!

[LCSMITH2 @LCSMITH26]

@WorkElizab Isn't it a spice rack?

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@oelma__ Yes!

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@Kristinartz It did. They wore great, too!

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@honeymoon250 Let him go live with your ex- husband.

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@lady_valor_07 Yes!!

[Amelia @Amelia558rs]

The whole internet collaborated and couldn’t find what this is. I’m not sure what this is, ninety percent of people don’t know too.🤔

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@KingTunde_SZN 3

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@MbarkCherguia String threader for a sewing needle

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@Mishi_2210 22

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@nobleisawinner 20

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@honeymoon250 Sewing machine

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@nobleisawinner Utah, Montana, North and South Carolina, Alaska, Washington, North and South Dakota, Florida,

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@nobleisawinner Hawaii

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[Native American @_nativeamerica]

My daughter poured her heart into this school project . A bit of support would mean everything to her.

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@CrazyVibes_1 Lincoln logs!! I played with these as a kid!!🥰