I love how they found a way to use a blood test for men’s prostate cancer, but I still have to get my titties slammed in a press and my cervix scraped with a brush...
White Family Mistaken for Black in 1955 Florida.
In the spring of 1955, Ebony magazine featured the Platt family, orange pickers from Lake County, Florida. Although the family identified as white, local officials claimed that six of their seven children had darker complexions and facial features they associated with Black people.
Because of that judgment, the children were removed from white schools. The family was also pressured to leave their white neighborhood and relocate to housing with far fewer basic amenities.
Their story showed just how arbitrary racial classifications could be under Jim Crow. A person's education, where they lived, and the opportunities available to them could depend less on documented ancestry than on how teachers, neighbors, or local officials perceived them.
The article also highlighted a reality that affected many Americans. Some families fought to avoid being classified as Black because segregation carried serious legal and economic consequences. At the same time, some light-skinned Black Americans passed as white to escape discrimination and gain opportunities they would otherwise have been denied.
An interesting detail is that the same issue of Ebony placed the Platt family's story beside an advertisement for Palmer's Skin Success, a product promoted for creating a more even complexion. Whether intentional or not, the contrast reflected the complicated relationship between race, skin color, identity, and opportunity in mid-century America.
I’m going back to physical cookbooks because I’m DONE with closing 15 ads, reading your grandmother’s origin story, and scrolling through an entire memoir before I finally get to the actual recipe.
so planting trees does more than just provide shade it actively lowers temperatures and they act as carbon sinks. we need to plant trees AND lower fossil fuel emissions.
Georgia has officially become a majority-minority state.
For the first time in history, non-White and Hispanic residents make up 52% of Georgia's population.
The next generation of epidemiologists, doctors, scientists at the high school level are already declaring they will be seeking to go to school and practice out of the US. Saving money, looking for extended family abroad, learning new languages.
The brain drain for the US is in motion.