‼️‼️‼️Update: found out today that he received a scholarship for about half of what he needs for tuition, room and board, supplies, and travel. Tuition is due May 1, please share and donate

(5) Anyways. With the farm I am soooooooo excited about these new seeds. And I hope to be able to cultivate each of these varieties and to be able to save their seeds for future generations.

(4) Yt supremacy tells us to avoid cotton because slavery. Bl@ck history tells us to embrace our ancestral plant knowledge and not allow others dictate how we feel about plants.

(3) And 2. Cotton is an African plant. We were working with and building relationship with cotton hundreds of years before colonization. So when we begin to think of decolonization, we need to remember that that begins with how we interact with our history.

(2) Although Bl@ck Americans have a complicated past with cotton, that can all be alleviated by remembering a couple things. 1. The PLANT ain’t never did nothing to us. In fact it’s a plant we interact with daily via our clothing, linens, cleans materials, medicines, etc.

I felt like it was so in alignment with my life and it makes me feel encouraged that I’m making the right steps to survive the future.

Well she said she just looked at what was happening at the time and which problems would be fully developed and devastating within the next 30 years. So it’s both