Mary Bray

Just being Mary! Living life to the fullest

[White Ppl Created Fascism @voteheaux]

For the audio/visual learners #MichelleObama #Inauguration

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Four years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right. That’s what @JoeBiden did.

At a time when our economy was reeling, he drove what would become the world’s strongest recovery – with 17 million new jobs, historic wage gains, and lower health care costs. He passed landmark legislation to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and address the threat of climate change. 

I’m grateful to Joe for his leadership, his friendship, and his lifetime of service to this country we love.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

One of the most important laws of my presidency was making Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Ms. Opal Lee is the grandmother of the movement that helped make it possible.

She made it her mission to make history, not erase it.

[Zackory Kirk @zackoryk]

Juneteenth 2024… my God today…

[Mary Bray @bc_mary]

@freakoutfights 😂

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Bessie Stringfield "Motorcycle Queen Of Miami."

—In 1930 Bessie Stringfield became the first black woman to ride her motorcycle across the United States solo. Her feat was credited with breaking down barriers for both women and African-American motorcyclists.

Born Betsy Leonora Ellis on February 9, 1911, in Kingston, 🇯🇲 Jamaica, she was the daughter of Maria Ellis, a domestic servant, and James Ferguson, her employer. Betsy and her parents migrated to Boston, Massachusetts but both died of smallpox. Orphaned when Betsy was five years old, she was adopted by a wealthy Irish woman who raised her as a Catholic. It is unclear when and why Bessie rather than Betsy became her given name. On Bessie’s sixteenth birthday, her mother gave her a motorcycle, “even though good girls didn’t ride motorcycles.”

In 1927 Ellis climbed aboard her first bike, an Indian Scout. Although she had no prior knowledge of operating the controls, she started the motorcycle and easily mastered it. Between the 1930s and the early 1940s, Ellis made eight long-distance solo rides across the United States. During this time, she earned money from performing motorcycle stunts in carnival shows. Due to her skin color, Ellis was often denied accommodations while traveling and was forced to sleep on her motorcycle at gasoline stations.

During World War II, Bessie Ellis worked for the U.S. Army as a civilian motorcycle dispatch rider, carrying documents between domestic bases on her Harley-Davidson bike. The only woman in her unit, she completed rigorous training maneuvers including learning how to weave a makeshift bridge from rope and tree limbs to cross swamps. Ellis regularly encountered racial prejudice while on the road. Once she was followed by a man in a pickup truck who deliberately ran her into a ditch, violently knocking her off her bike.

In between her travels, Ellis wed and divorced six times. After she and her first husband were deeply saddened by the loss of three babies, she had no more children. Upon divorcing her third husband, Arthur Stringfield, she said, “He asked me to keep his name because I’d made it famous!”

By the early 1950s, Stringfield ended her motorcycle odysseys across the United States. She bought a house in Miami, Florida, suburb and became a licensed practical nurse. She continued to ride locally, however, and founded the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club. Disguised as a man, Stringfield won a local motorcycle race but was denied the prize money when she took off her helmet. Her other antics, including riding her Harley while standing in its saddle, attracted local press attention. Reporters called Stringfield, the “Negro Motorcycle Queen” at first and then later the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami.” In the absence of children, she found joy in her pet dogs, some of whom paraded with her on her motorcycle.

In 1990 when the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) opened the first Motorcycle Heritage Museum in Pickerington, Ohio, Stringfield was featured in its inaugural exhibit on Women in Motorcycling. Late in life, Stringfield suffered from symptoms caused by an enlarged heart. She died in Opa-laka, Florida, in 1993 at the age of eighty-two.

A decade later, the AMA instituted the Bessie Stringfield Award to honor women who are leaders in motorcycling. In 2002 she was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

trump knew he was going to lose the 2020 election long before votes were cast. And because his stupid ego couldn't handle it, he cried "rigged" long before.

By setting his followers expectations to think the election was going to be stolen, it just confirmed what they "knew" ahead of time.

And then he declared himself the winner while votes were still being counted to compound the frustration of his supporters when Biden was declared the winner.

And then they rolled out all of those idiotic "Stop the Steal" efforts to squeeze money out from people who probably couldn't even afford it.

And then, we learned tonight that Roger Stone was already setting the wheels in motion BECAUSE HE RECORDED THE FUCKING PLAN ON VIDEO.

Democrats may be many things, but we don't cheat on elections. If we did, George W. Bush wouldn't have won (twice) and Hillary would've been President.

Say what you will, but NONE of our candidates ever did the insurrection thing that trump pulled. Al Gore took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, but when it was over, he just went home.

Hillary Clinton made her concession speech the very next day. And Republican politicians know this. ALL OF THEM KNOW. They KNOW trump lost. They KNOW he is a fucking prolific criminal, and they are mostly too chickenshit to call him out for it.

And the ones who ARE calling him out for it now waited so damn long to open their yaps, because they were busy going along for the ride until now. None of those cowards deserve to be President.

Joe Biden may be old. He might not always say the right thing. He might stumble if you leave a sandbag in his fucking path (I would too at 55 years old). He's not perfect. But we don't need perfect.

We need experienced and decent and smart. We need a guy who doesn't say "I alone can fix it) and then doesn't fix shit.

We need a President who doesn't hire the worst people. We need a President who inspires people to be the best they can be, instead of one who tells them it's OK to do their worst. We need a leader who isn't running to avoid prison.

I'm ready to turn the page on trump.
We need four more years of President Biden.

[Angie Maybe - Sneaky Nasty Canadian @AngelaS2Canada]

@notcapnamerica My Japanese relatives that were in internment camps took their skills there with them they weren’t taught there! Just like black people brought their skills to North America & Jewish people brought their skills to the camps! Indigenous people taught their skills to settlers!

[Mary Bray @bc_mary]

@RickeySmiley Pepsi

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

It’s absolutely ridiculous

[Steve Austin @steveaustinBSR]

Overseas back in the day..
You never want this to happen, but sometimes it does. @TripleH was there in a flash. Appreciate it brother. Good times

[Mary Bray @bc_mary]

@RickeySmiley Cue Mary Mary 🎶 I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm walking 🎶

[Selena Bridgers @bryant_selena]

I am a money magnet,money is always flowing into my life.I have everything I need.
Affirm

[Mary Bray @bc_mary]

@RealDLHughley We're getting closer and closer. Smh

[Tabitha Brown @IamTabithaBrown]

You still here❤️. I love you!

[EBONY @EBONY]

We are saddened to report that singer and actress, Irene Cara has passed away. An Academy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter, and producer, Cara was best known for the title tracks in the movies “Fame” and “Flashdance”. May she be remembered for her legacy. #IreneCara

[Cindy Trimm @cindytrimm]

I am praying 4 u today! I am anticipating great things happening for u & ur family throughout the balance of the year & 4 the rest of ur lives! I pray that u will have disease free bodies, stress free living & successful businesses! I am also believing for a #MidWeekMiracle!

[Padma Lakshmi @PadmaLakshmi]

Questions for the people who are scared of becoming a minority: Why is that? Are minorities treated differently?

[Janet Jackson @JanetJackson]

#SundayInspiration 🤍

[CDC @CDCgov]

CDC continues to recommend that people wear masks in all indoor public transportation settings. See full CDC statement: https://t.co/xY9YcSlSxr