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[applegrove]

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Tombstone:


1844 - 1938

This memorial is dedicated to the remarkable life of Melvina "Mattie" Shields McGuder

She was born a slave in South Carolina in 1844. At age 6 she was brought to the nearby Shields farm in what is now Rex Clayton County, Georgia. Her family would endure a 5 generation journey that began in oppression and would lead her descendant to become

First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama

[doublethink]

1. First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother. N.T

[summer_in_TX]

2. Wow!

Powerful chills ran up my back reading that.

Thank you for sharing!

[Wounded Bear]

3. Cool story! Thanks for the link! nt

[malaise]

4. Rec

This will not be taught CRT

[Lucinda]

5. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Lonestarblue]

6. Instead of celebrating that we have people of different races and different beliefs, we have a

Republican Party bent on making everyone conform to their backward way of thinking. No thanks! I’ll take our diversity.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Republican white supremacists are likely to vandalize that monument.

[Genki Hikari]

11. Count on it.

They've only spent the past 55+ years desecrating the grave of James Chaney, the black man killed in the Mississippi Burning case:

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/7900/visiting-james-chaney-road-to-end-u-s-racism-long-and-winding-but-only-one-worth-traveling

His tombstone is now supported by metal braces, to stop racist vandals from knocking it over.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Thanks for the link. Good read and should never be forgotten.

[lees1975]

8. Me too!

Diversity is what makes America what it is. It's the byproduct of freedom. We cannot lose this, or we will lose our country.

[wnylib]

14. My father grew up on a farm.

He was an avid gardener in our yard in the city where I grew up. In one section of the yard he had a vegetable garden and in the rest he had lawn and flowers intentionally planted to have something always blooming, from spring through fall.

He planted crops and flowers with consideration for their relationship to each other regarding growth and maturation, shade, sun, and water needs, soil nutrients, size and space, and physical appearance.

I used to watch him sectioning off areas, planting seeds and small plants, watering and weeding. When I asked him how he knew what to plant where and how to plant them, he gave me his philosophy of life. He said that every plant had its own traits, characteristics, and needs, just like people. Some require nitrogen in the soil and some release it into the soil. Some need sunny dry places and some need shader, moister soil. They all work together to make use of the land area and help each other. Some of them will cross breed and create new versions, often hardier or prettier. They make up the plant world together like various people make up the human world together.

Sounds simplistic as an adult, but I was about 8 years old so he was telling it in words that I would understand, as an example of how to appreciate nature and people.

[uponit7771]

12. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[Blue Owl]

9. Big K&R

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. K&R and thank you. n/t