new high school classmate: so what’s your name
renesmee: renesmee
new classmate: that’s… interesting
renesmee: my mom was on crack when she named me
bella, sitting literally two seats away:
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“Glo up for your fuckin’ $elf”
— (via phuckindope)
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Historic Images of African-American Life During the Depression
1942
Lydia Monroe, a student nurse at Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
1940
Migrant workers travel from Florida to New Jersey to harvest potatoes. African Americans were particularly devastated by the Great Depression when work and food were scarce. They became part of a major migratory cycle in which laborers started down south in the spring, worked their way north, completed the fall harvest and then returned to Florida to begin the cycle again.
1939
A man uses the ‘Colored’ entrance to a movie theater in Belzoni, Mississippi. Most public facilities were segregated by race in the former Confederate states of the south under Jim Crow laws enacted after the Civil War and throughout the first half of the 20th century. These laws were eventually overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1942
Ella Watson, a charwoman in an office building, lost her father to a lynch mob, her husband to a bullet, and an eighteen year old daughter who died in childbirth.
1942
Ella Watson cares for her three grand children at her home in Washington DC.
1935-1945
Between 1935 and 1945, Douglas Aircraft Company’s six plane factories were deemed a “melting pot” because its male and female workforce came from 58 different nations.
1940
A man stands in the “Colored” area at a Durham, North Carolina bus station
1941
Employees of an African-American health insurance company work in Chicago, Illinois.
1941
Young boys sit on a car in Chicago, Illinois.
1938
An orchestra performs at the National Rice Festival in Crowley, Louisiana.
1939
People jitterbug at a Mississippi Delta juke joint on a Saturday afternoon in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1938
Two men play a game of “coon-can” in Reserve, Louisiana.
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Being 18-25 is like playing a video game where you’ve skipped the tutorial and you’re just sort of running about with no idea how anything works
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Having the same taste in music is like a soul connection
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me: *has no money* when i get money i’ll definitely buy that
me: *gets money* okay but do i really want that??
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Do you have my back like the gmail security team has my back tho?
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