“I did brief [Trump] on the strategy that I want to see laid out with impeachment,” Marjorie Taylor Greene told The New York Times. Greene added that she told Trump she wants the impeachment inquiry to be “long and excruciatingly painful for Joe Biden.” https://t.co/O08zO8zm8O
1939, my living grandfather was born that year. My maternal grandmother was born in 1932. This is what we mean when we say none of this was that long ago.
Willis Winn, who told photographer Russell Lee that he was 116 years old when the photograph was taken in 1939, is pictured holding a horn with which plantation owners called slaves to work. Winn said his master told him that his birthday was March 10, 1822
When interviewed by Lee, Willis was living alone in a one-room log house in the rear of the Howard Vestal home on the Powder Mill Road, north of Marshall, and was supported by an $11.00 per month old-age pension. He recalled; “Massa Bob’s house faced the quarters where he could hear us holler when he blowed the big horn for us to git up. All the houses were made of logs and we slept on shuck and grass mattresses what was allus full of chinches. I still sleep on a grass mattress, ’cause I can’t rest on cotton and feather beds.”
Willis’ interview in 1939 showed how little things had changed for many people in the United States decades on from the abolition of slavery.
“They is plenty niggers in Louisiana that is still slaves. A spell back I made a trip to where I was raised, to see my old missy ‘fore she died, and there was niggers in twelve or fourteen miles of that place that they didn’t know they is free. They is plenty niggers round here what is same as slaves, and has worked for white folks twenty and twenty-five years and ain’t drawed a five cent piece, jus’ old clothes and somethin’ to eat. That’s the way we was in slavery.”
We did an island tour with 2 natives (a mom and daughter). It's hard to describe how taking in that much history makes you feel. The land is black owned and multiple generations are there living right next to each other. Nothing good gone come to them people trying to take it.
you'd THINK they'd learn not to mess with ancestral/sacred grounds by now, but greed is a monster. But I promise you they gone step on that island and try to flip it, and them ancestors gone flip they asses right back.
The mom told us how MLK worked on his "I have a Dream" speech in the basement of one of the schools. The island was one of the only places he felt safe, no one ever used his real identity when he was there. Protecting him from anyone who came looking.
@Aya__Marie volunteers of America, Habitat for Humanity, Salvation army, you can toss them on Facebook market place for free pickup if you really want them gone
it sucks we couldn't keep the kids in the same home, but the level of care K needed/needs wouldn't have made that possible, but when we keep Ky man oh man oh man he lights UP. Nobody compares to his sister in his eyes its not even close