“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
Retweet if you're one of the growing numbers of people who don't eat animals. Let's show the world that going #vegan is both beautiful and spreading globally like wildfire. 🧡
Great small concentrated salad full of antioxidants. Steamed kales, broccoli sprouts, balsamic vinegar, wakame, ground black cumin seeds, and ground flax seeds.
#wholeplantbased
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What you see here aren’t just any clouds, they’re Martian clouds. Take a moment out of your day to look at the sky of another world.
📸 taken by my right Navigation Camera. https://t.co/rc7rOWK87d
"I definitely think there’s going to be an uptick on the need to sell, unfortunately," said Christie's director of museum services https://t.co/lqrm7F0rTF
A vaccine scientist warns that the next four to five months could be "one of the darkest chapters in modern American history" as more than half of states report a rise in new infections. https://t.co/LATjzkq1AJ
OMG - this is flat out the most hysterical piece I’ve read in my entire life.
“SURE, THE VELOCIRAPTORS ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE, BUT THAT’S NO REASON NOT TO REOPEN JURASSIC PARK” 🦖
Lost of juicy must quote #COVID19 relevant passages from it: 🧵
https://t.co/lRNMDQChn1