Mothers are not perfect. But, like old wine, as they age, the better they become as a person.
"If there's a heaven up above
I know she's teaching angels how to love"
The Spinners - "Sadie"
"Philippe Wynne of The Spinners, one of the greatest soul singers of all time was raised in an orphanage after his mum and dad divorced. "The hardest thing about being there was knowing they were both alive"
He died aged just 43."
“Oh, Sadie
Don't you know we love you,
sweet Sadie? 🎶
Place no one above you
Sweet Sadie
🎶 Living in the past...”
One more thing: Giving Birth does not make someone a parent:
"A REAL parent is one who puts their child's interest and needs above their own SELFISH wants."
The Jehovah's Witness grandmother of rapper DMX. He credits her for giving him the things his mother wasn't able to provide: Kindness, sanity, a rare sense of normalcy.
"His grandmother, Mary Ella Holloway, provided the nurturing care he desperately sought."
One woman kept the entire family together.
"Unfortunately, at a young age, he was abused by his mother and her boyfriends. His grandmother, Mary Ella Holloway, provided the nurturing care he desperately sought."
Simmons was her oldest grandchild and in her eyes, he could do no wrong.
Taken from ..."Earl “DMX” Simmons’ obituary".
"The 50-year-old icon personified hip hop and sold more than 74 million records during his legendary career." revolt.tv/2021/4/9/22366…
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"The late Harvard law professor Derrick Bell is credited as the father of #criticalracetheory. He began conceptualizing the idea in the 1970s as a way to understand how race and American law interact, and developed a course on the subject ...
@AsraNomani@fcpsnews@Ricardy4Mason@AlsoACarpenter "In 1980, Bell resigned his position at #Harvard because of what he viewed as the institution’s discriminatory hiring practices, especially its failure to hire an Asian American woman he’d recommended."
"The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon’s Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect ...
... their superior status and economic position, the planters shifted their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves.
@OXIOXIForever@NRO Sowell represents a new strain of Black conservatism - one that Baldwin wasn't probably familiar with. I think Sowell was a Marxist when Baldwin was debating Buckley. The Sowell strain of black conservatism, I think it is largely a byproduct of white immigrants fleeing Europe.
@OXIOXIForever@NRO It's another neo-conservative failure; a (colorblind) attempt to address issues of color without actually addressing Black people. It's a very presumptuous ideology.
And, that makes it rash.
@OXIOXIForever@NRO Unlike, with Asian, Hispanic. European (Jewish) immigrants -- Africans didn't want to come here. They were forced here. And, they were forced to build the place. And, now, everybody and their mamma wanna come.
We have watched and listened from the mountains!
We have watched with disgust!
―M'Baki
"A mother unleashed a piercing scream as her baby was ripped from her arms during a slave auction. Even as a lash cut her back, she refused to put her baby down and climb atop an auction block.The woman pleaded for God’s mercy."
As #TimScott, the only Black Republican senator prepares to respond to Biden, it is worth remembering--"Why African Americans left the #GOP!" #BidenAddress
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South".
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ." broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the…
Republican Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
"The path toward Lily-White control, and the subsequent nature of white rule in the state GOP, was dependent (at least in part) on the unique historical context in each state."