@Watchman_motto Grew up in a house similar to this with lots of skylights in the kitchen and main hall to offset the dark wood/slate.. Absolutely loved it.
@theepicmap grew up in NO and my dad and I used to go fishing down that way. Hard to put words to if you’re not from there. Buggy, hot, inexplicably magical, creepy AF.
Every Mardi Gras Day, something extraordinary emerges from the backstreets of New Orleans. It’s a tradition most tourists will never see. This Sunday, 60 Minutes goes inside the elaborate culture of the Mardi Gras Indians, also known as Black Masking Indians. https://t.co/o3HSfJAt5B
Four hundred years of colonial misery condensed into five mesmerizing minutes,The Clash’s “Straight To Hell” intuitively connects the cruelty inflicted upon 19th century Congo, 20th century Vietnam and the dispossessed working poor of everyplace. Maybe Strummer’s greatest lyric.
“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves from the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
-James Baldwin
Remember when Black Lives Matter activists said what they were trying to fix affects everyone, just Black people first? Remember when Black scholars said anti-Black policies eventually always end up hurting others? Remember when Black journalists said it wasn’t economic angst?