If You Don't Do Anything Else Today,

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

would you sacrifice yourself to save your loved ones?

someone you love more than almost anything in the world, someone sick or injured or elderly—what would you do if saving them meant giving yourself up? can you even imagine having to make that choice?

i can't. but that's the reality for mohammed, and he already knows his answer: he will save his family before himself. he will evacuate his most vulnerable family members from gaza—his sister, still healing from a quadcopter bullet; the sick; those who need to flee most urgently—and he will stay behind if that's what's necessary. 8 displacements, his home destroyed, his job gone, bombs falling around him and his life utterly uprooted, and his first thought is only of helping others.

this is an awful, inhumane, horrific position for anyone to be in. and yet i'm writing this post because so far, he doesn't even have the funds necessary to evacuate his most critically injured family members—let alone to start thinking about himself.

please help the iwais family.

gofundme.com

Donate to GAZA : HELP IWAIS FAMILY TO REBUILD THIER LIFES, organized by Ibrahim Iwais

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why can't I be a dark mass of total destruction

Please save what's left of my family

Hello dear

I am from the Baalousha family from Gaza.. 🇵🇸🍉

I hope you are well .

I write to you with a heart full of hope and faith, and I ask for your urgent help. My family is in great danger due to the war, and I am running a fundraising campaign to save them. My father and mother suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure. Help me secure them

Please, can you reblog my campaign post on my account? Every contribution can make a difference in my family's life and any donation, even a small one, makes a difference.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any help you can provide. 🇵🇸🇵🇸

The campaign was documented by @90-ghost 🍉🍉.

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Please stop and listen to our painful story and help me save the family 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Help me get my father and mother out and secure their lives Hello my dears, I hope you are well. Please help me. I, Mahmoud Baalou, hav

i dont have much of a following but ill do what i can!

@the-rini-rush @theolivetree123 @midnightmah07 @quartztwst @ashipiko sorry for tagging you all, and the ones that dont know me, you all have a bigger following then me and can give this a boost!

the blue lock brainrot is real i went out to a party and drew rin on my cup to remember which one was mine

‼️Please don’t skip taking a look 🍉🇵🇸

Am Caroline from Gaza 🍉🇵🇸 ..I need your help if you can, my house was destroyed during the war. We lost everything, my family and I did not have anything left. We left our homes in search of a safe place and we were displaced three times to different places to survive, but unfortunately there's no safe place in Gaza. I am also battling Type 1 Diabetes which is very expensive for me to get my insulin injection but just requesting support from my friends. My mother is also very sick and she's a kidney failure patient in need of treatment outside. She suffers from LS. Help me and my family to survive. Please, your small donation can make a huge difference. A friend outside Gaza has come in to help me run the donation program so that my mother can be evacuated. You can reach me for more clarification.

Transport: $11,958/$15,000

Medication: $477/$700

P*PAL Email: nangundacaroline5@gmail.com

Please donate here

The most difficult decision for us was to leave our country, to leave Gaza, to overcome the obstacles we faced and the losses we suffered, and to start a new life from scratch.💔💔