My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.
Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.
My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.
I did not know this
I didn’t either and it breaks my heart to see stuff like this. To hear of more darkness that was just swept under the rug like this.
Here’s an article with more information about Mae’s family and her life after she got out, and the Wikipedia article on peon slavery has some general information about it in the twentieth century in the American South.
“Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those who otherwise require less support, face difficulties in everyday social interactions.
“Research in this area has primarily focused on identifying the cognitive and neurological differences that contribute to these social impairments, but social interaction by definition involves more than one person; social difficulties may arise not just from people with ASD themselves, but also from the perceptions, judgments, and social decisions made by those around them.
“Here, across three studies, we find that first impressions of individuals with ASD made from thin slices of real-world social behavior by typically-developing observers are not only far less favorable across a range of trait judgments compared to controls, but also are associated with reduced intentions to pursue social interaction. These patterns are remarkably robust, occur within seconds, do not change with increased exposure, and persist across both child and adult age groups. However, these biases disappear when impressions are based on conversational content lacking audio-visual cues, suggesting that style, not substance, drives negative impressions of ASD.
“Collectively, these findings advocate for a broader perspective of social difficulties in ASD that considers both the individual’s impairments and the biases of potential social partners.”
Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments
Maybe it’s a symptom of getting older, or maybe part of learning to sit and not move and enjoy instead of chugging that cup of coffee or glass of wine, or maybe it’s finally being aware of the easiest part of being outside: one’s own yard or the park across the street. Whatever, I’ve noticed birds in our yard, and I never realized we had so many. Maybe it’s because the neighborhood cats (strays, but TNR cats) are gone. Maybe because I’m paying attention.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sitting on the front porch, seeing this view. (Note: the tree is a sweet acacia. The yellow flowers happen in March-April. They’re gone now.)
And seeing these birds, plus others. (The others include the mourning dove, raven, starling, common house sparrow, common finch.) Note: none of the bird photos are mine.
Hooded oriole. I noticed this one sits at the hummingbird feeder sucking the sugar water almost as frequently as the hummingbirds.
Orange-crowned warbler.
White-crowned sparrow.
Western tanager.
Blue-gray gnatcatcher.
Mockingbird.
Goldfinch.
Anna’s hummingbird. We have about six hummingbirds, always fighting and chasing each other. I think we also have a Rufuous hummingbird. One thing amazes me about these birds: they drink sugar water, then zip around and snatch bugs flying around in the air, then back for more sugar, then more bugs, then they fly around and pee and poo prodigiously, then more sugar and so on.
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