Just finished They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.
This book literally deserves to be read in high school, college, & grad school because it lifts the veil off white women as damsel & distress when they were co-conspirators in slavery. 🧵
There are angels who walk among us.
Nicky Crawford is one of them.
He’s retired. From Atlanta. And he just opened a mobile laundry bus for unhoused people.
“God has blessed me so much, I knew this is what I was supposed to be doing.”
When the Bible says "do not lean on your own understanding," the Bible is being serious. Your heart is deceitful, your emotions fluctuate, your understanding does not see the overall, big picture. God never lies, God never changes, God knows all. Trust Him.
Y’all wanna do people dirty and sideways and expect the person who you hurt to be the mature one lol. That’s not how that works. Once you hurt someone, the person you hurt is not entitled to fix the relationship even if you reach out. That is what you have to live with
So I recently became my husbands full-time caregiver as a result of him having surgery. Although I know I can do it, balancing all of his needs + cooking, cleaning, & working full-time has been challenging. Today, my friend ordered us chipotle catering for the week and I — 🥹😭🤧
Black Americans are hella cool. They really survived the biggest colonization event to ever exist, created their own culture AND became the coolest trendsetters. Talk about a warrior spirit… I think their existence is so beautiful.