In 1944, a group of white men lynched Reverend Isaac Simmons, a minister and farmer who owned 270 acres of land in Mississippi because they believed the land had oil deposits. Goal- to steal his land and profit from it.
Oh, they weren’t finished after killing the Reverend. The men then brutally beat his son and ran him out of the county.
This is one story of many where racially motivated killings of Black people in the Jim Crow South resulted in farms and land being violently stolen to profit and benefit white farmers.
This is what they’re hiding while telling Black folks to pick themselves up by the “bootstraps.”#FreshVoicesRise #BlackHistoryWithLana
On Friday, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Woods, while commenting on the death of 16 year old non-binary student Nex Benedict, said, “I represent a constituency that doesn’t want that filth in Oklahoma.” (Gender fluidity)
The number to Tom’s office is:
(405) 521-5576
Me, having not even left the state in almost 4 years, watching my 98263rd TikTok of the day:
"That's not how you're supposed to open the Onigiri from 7-Eleven in Japan!"
#shehulk might genuinely be the first time some young men hear a woman speak candidly about experiences like this. It might not seem like it but that’s hugely important.
Anyone else tear off the last useless, shredded square from the TP roll and bunch it up with the paper from the new roll because BY GOD YOU PAID FOR IT AND IT WILL NOT LEAVE THIS HOUSE UNSCATHED? Nobody? Yeah. Uh. Me neither.