A reminder that these are the people who don’t want their grandkids learning about this in school because they wouldn’t have a logical answer for why they did it.
As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s mean, manipulative and not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. It’s your responsibility to take care of them
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
Apocalypto (2006) ends with Jaguar Paw surviving the hunt… only for Spanish ships to appear on the horizon. Not a victory, not relief…just history arriving. One of the coldest final images in modern cinema.
Bro it’s the most difficult thing ever to know the things you need to let go of to elevate but not being ready for them to slip away. And then knowing it’s yourself standing in the way 🙄
I grew up being told “the older you get, the more conservative you become.”
I’m finding that the older I get, the more I just want our society to be more tolerant, charitable, kind, peaceable, and ensure that everyone has what they need to survive and thrive.
Want to get people off SNAP? Start with minimum wage. Had minimum wage kept up with inflation and productivity, it would be $26 an hour. That would remove 13 million workers from Snap benefits overnight.
These ate facts.