LEXX🫶🏾

𝐈'𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 🍀 PVAMU Alumna

[LEXX🫶🏾 @lexxwill_]

An update for my fans 🫶🏾

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

White American slave owners used to breed Black female slaves and force them to have C-sections without anesthesia. Don't forget their evil doings.

[LEXX🫶🏾 @lexxwill_]

@jaeoffsaks @arianavsdon @imfynerthanfyne Very much bidi bidi bum bum

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Carl Jung was right, all addictions are really a low level search for God

[AZEALIA BANKS @iiwasinthee212]

Black Americans are quite literally the Ashkenazim of the black diaspora.
Forever questioned, forever being told we have no culture - yet are singlehandedly responsible for everyones ability to thrive in the PROMISED LAND .

Like jessssusss chrisst , we never get a break

[AZEALIA BANKS @iiwasinthee212]

Juneteenth is a Black Texan holiday.
Even still, theres something sinister about celebrating texan slaves not knowing the US outlawed slavery two and a half years prior because they couldnt read....

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

HOUSTON OMG

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Immigrants should have to learn about black history

[LEXX🫶🏾 @lexxwill_]

@KristenDavine @UlokoDaniella He likes one direction. That’s all I needed to know

[David Icke @davidicke]

He's a paper trillionaire, a paper owner of multiple companies he doesn't run, a paper frontman for those that own him. Everything else is theatre.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

The stereotype of absent black fathers was created by the government in the 1950s to destroy the Black families.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.

His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.

Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.

[tim russ @timruss2]

Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.

[Angela @TennesseeGirl]

@DissidentWire They'll need a better plan

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Long Beach School District (in CA) hosts a segregated "blacks-only" graduation:

[Shayla Sweatt @shay_sweatt]

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[丂山乇乇ㄒㄥ丨千乇 @dicesweetlifee]

Sh!t like this is why black people get pissed when other races are praised for wearing our hairstyles

[BIG BAD CHUCK ✰ @yawningemoji]

this is a piece of history. put it in the smithsonian

[BASED SAVAGE @crackcobain__]

Future ended the Goat debate in Atlanta today btw