@perditafelicien I was chiming in with you re: your analysis of @LylesNoah pre & post 200 finals behaviour - Noah I think youβre awesome but your pre and post behaviour π€- get well soon howeverrrr the math ainβt mathin!!!
@CTVWindsor Yes!! Windsorites will travel to see something like this and wonder why we donβt have something like this lol!! Then when itβs a possibility no one wants it π€
Happy heavenly 30th birthday, Ahmaud Arbery! Nothing will bring Ahmaud back, but we are grateful we have received accountability for his death at the state level and in a federal hate crime trial. Today we remember a life that was unjustly taken from us.
Willis Winn, who told photographer Russell Lee that he was 116 years old when the photograph was taken in 1939, is pictured holding a horn with which plantation owners called slaves to work. Winn said his master told him that his birthday was March 10, 1822
When interviewed by Lee, Willis was living alone in a one-room log house in the rear of the Howard Vestal home on the Powder Mill Road, north of Marshall, and was supported by an $11.00 per month old-age pension. He recalled; βMassa Bobβs house faced the quarters where he could hear us holler when he blowed the big horn for us to git up. All the houses were made of logs and we slept on shuck and grass mattresses what was allus full of chinches. I still sleep on a grass mattress, βcause I canβt rest on cotton and feather beds.β
Willisβ interview in 1939 showed how little things had changed for many people in the United States decades on from the abolition of slavery.
βThey is plenty niggers in Louisiana that is still slaves. A spell back I made a trip to where I was raised, to see my old missy βfore she died, and there was niggers in twelve or fourteen miles of that place that they didnβt know they is free. They is plenty niggers round here what is same as slaves, and has worked for white folks twenty and twenty-five years and ainβt drawed a five cent piece, jusβ old clothes and somethinβ to eat. Thatβs the way we was in slavery.β