🎉New Year Same Elia🎊

Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972) YouTube video by Nightloop

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery. We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended. So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.

Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery? Jackson: The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:

"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I’m alive, but postpartum got hands 🫩one day I’ll sleep again, maybe

I love ass cleavage

My faves are Vita, Mandy, Myki, and Athena so far

I can’t wait for Michelle to tell Ciara Myst to stop doing that with her lipstick

#rpdr

Drag Race Finale predictions

Myki Meeks
Nini Coco
Athena Dion

#rpdr

JESUS CHRIST!

Filler queens can’t stop having trash opinions @discord addams and Briar blush

“I’m a Latina but I’m not like a cha cha cha Latina”

Extremely ugly of DD Fuego tbh #rpdr #S18 #dragrace

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of…

What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...

I love her she can do anything she puts her mind to

A close up of a bright green anthurium leaf with neon green veins. It has a spot where it burned from the light and a bit of a scar on the left side. She is planted in moss in a clear pot. You can see a white peg board behind the plant. It’s beautiful, If scarred

Silly Sunday: comment with a first name & I’ll take a picture of one of my plant leaves that also goes by that name

for example

this is mark

he doesn’t go looking for fights, but he won’t shy away from them, either

(Alt text has some more info about the plant to encourage accessibility 🫶🏻)

Evangeline

quote tweet that quotes outgoing nyc mayor eric adams saying “Stay home. This is a good bay making day” with a meme above showing the NYC skyline and Adams’ fading face with the words “Have sex” - “See you space cowboy…”

his final message…

why tf they put toto on a leash

I'm so sorry tofu😭

so true bestie

I wish my in laws would ask us before getting a big item for my daughter

they got her one of those baby bungee jumpers for christmas.... they're terrible for her development, not to mention dangerous! Ill never put her in it and I don't even feel comfortable giving it away!

she can roll now, so we had to switch her from a cradle to a deeper bassinet attached to the bed, but once she can push herself up on her hands and knees we'll have to forego that too🥲 her crib is too big to move but im so not ready for her to be in her nursery😭

my gma complaining that I always end up with the best gifts at the family white elephant.....my husband plays the game and gets me what I want💅🏽 idk what to tell you abuela

Elia's hand reaching into her baby's bedside crib. The baby's tiny hand is holding Elia's finger.

if you had kids that slept in your room with you when did their move to their own room? I'm never gonna be ready to not fall asleep like this

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

I cant deal with the residue, god forbid its a book😭😭

if youre gonna tape the wrapping paper to my gift just hand it to me unwrapped

its time to watch Happiest Season!!