This 7yo was given an assignment to write from 1051-2000
Midway, he goes "I'm tired o"
My mum: You can do all things...
7yo: Through christ that strengthens me, I know, but I'm tiredddd 😫
Love me a self aware king😂🫶🏻
This 7yo was given an assignment to write from 1051-2000
Midway, he goes "I'm tired o"
My mum: You can do all things...
7yo: Through christ that strengthens me, I know, but I'm tiredddd 😫
Love me a self aware king😂🫶🏻
I just thought of the emotional whiplash of Islamic burial practices. Because imagine losing someone in the morning and, before you’ve even had time to properly process the fact that they’re gone, you’re already preparing to bury them that same day. And if they pass later in the day, you may be looking at the very next morning.
I’d like to understand the reasoning behind such practices, it feels emotional tormenting.
My sister and I gisted from last night till the wee hours of this morning, beautiful moment I tell ya
But the conversation had started from her telling me the story of The Polygamist, I've never watched it, and what in the world of ragebait is that?!! Who wrote it???!!!
In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.
King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.
He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.
He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.
Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.
The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.
An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.
"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.
"Women have always had equal rights." Meanwhile — when anesthesia was first invented, doctors weren't allowed to give it to women in labor because the church declared that the pain of childbirth was God's punishment for sleeping with men. Let that sit for a second.
Just finished watching a Chinese cartoon with this 7yo, subtitles was on and he was reading, but the questions? Might have as well been the writer, I love inquisitive kids but abeg nau
He was rubbing circles on my shoulder where he held me sha, so I'm soothed😑