Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine

Love animals, some people, want real equality, everywhere, for everyone. Surprised to be in my 60s! #HandMarkedPaperBallotsOnly
#BlackLivesMatter
#MeToo

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@Angry_Staffer Holy Crap. Wow. Just. WOW.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@Rene_gadeCowboy @WordswithSteph Well THAT just sucks, he comes across so much better than that. How sad to find another douche underneath the fun & amiability.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@WordswithSteph Ew.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@7Veritas4 @CSanSoc Not in this day & age, it's too expensive to live not to get paid.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

I'm done with Twitter, folks. Thanx for everything, so many of you are wonderful :-). Musk, I used to admire the hell out of you, but you've shown us what an egotistical, controlling & power-mad POS you really are. Anyone cares, I'm over at Tribel, @phyreflye. Bye ya'll.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@LakotaMan1 Not by this Boomer, nor any that I know. But then, I live in the Pacific NW, where we generally understand that things have changed a LOT since the 60s-70s - & not for the better - for the average/below average income person. Now, what that program looks like is very debatable.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@KaiMADAOZen @SueWhit02414019 @archehistory @historyinmemes I think you're right. I was thinking of a laundromat as a commercial laundry, but it's a public *automated* laundry. Right before the laundromat, they had Chinese laundries across the nation, very roughly the latter part of the 1800s & into the 1900s.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@graspfire @grrls_sxy_shoes @FaralynPadilla AFAIK, there's never been a national age to marry; that's always been a state's right to decide. Which I now believe is BS.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@graspfire @grrls_sxy_shoes @FaralynPadilla Seriously. That's legal rape, to my mind.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@bettymbeauchamp @grrls_sxy_shoes @FaralynPadilla WTAF??? Like I said, there should a minimum national age of 18.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@grrls_sxy_shoes @FaralynPadilla Right???

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@SueWhit02414019 @archehistory @historyinmemes Very different from today's laundromats: pretty much all female employees who did wash by hand, in huge vats with paddles for manipulating the heavy wet cloth in boiling water. Lot more to it, but Google is your friend.

[Rare Stories @rarestorees]

Mary Ellen Pleasant born in 1815. The first African-American self-made millionaire.

In order to understand how to invest her money wisely as a Black domestic worker in California, Mary Ellen Pleasant eavesdropped on her rich customers. In the future, she made use of this information to create a real estate empire that was worth over $30 million.

Before beginning to amass a real estate portfolio, Pleasant put her investing proceeds to good use by acquiring companies like laundromats and boarding houses. She soon acquired stock in additional companies, including banks, dairies, and restaurants.

Her white male business partner is thought to have assisted her in making multiple investments under his name so that she wouldn't have to deal with the same obstacles that other aspiring Black businesswomen of the time did.

Pleasant quickly rose to become one of the richest women in America.

She also said "I often wonder what I would have been with an education."

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The last American slave ship arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, despite the illegal importation of slaves. On board were approximately 160 West African individuals who had been captured and enslaved. One of the captives, named Cudjo Lewis, was acutely aware of the potential erasure of his birth culture as he toiled in this new land. However, when he eventually gained his freedom, Lewis took action to preserve his heritage.

Using the money he had earned, Cudjo Lewis purchased two acres of land and established a self-sufficient community for the survivors of the last slave ship. This community, known to outsiders as Africatown, aimed to recreate aspects of the West African home from which they had been forcibly removed. Lewis wanted to ensure that extended families could live together, conversations could be held in regional languages, and traditions that might otherwise have been lost in America could be maintained.

Today, Africatown still exists as a community and continues to house the descendants of the individuals who were brought to America on the nation's last slave ship. It stands as a testament to the resilience and determination of those who fought to preserve their heritage and maintain a sense of cultural identity in the face of tremendous adversity.

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@jcobb1058 HELL no.

[Loretta DeBourbon 🎆🇺🇸🎇 @restlessgiraffe]

It is not even that ::: to me

it is despite everything they
embraced America,
sang their sorrows
& played their music
to create Jazz & Rock n Roll

wept in their Churches
through song
but chose largely to embrace
peace & Christ

rather than tear America
apart from the inside w/
bombs.

[dancing in the street 🇺🇸🦅🌊🇺🇦 @martycomroe]

@AfricanArchives @NotYetMinistry #Juneteenth2023

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“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!”

[Athena Smith 🌹🌈🌊🇺🇲🇧🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine @Phyreflye]

@ResistanceInRed Yes.