Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 1:11
Kwanzaa Traditions
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Happy Quanda to everyone who honors that festival every year, I dedicate some time and focus to reading history and specifically, Black authors. And when I do, I also remind myself that it once was a capital offense for Black people to read in this country. So I also do it as a kind of personal way of resistance. So last year I read The Mis Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson. Excellent book. This year I'm reading, too
And earlier earlier this year, I learned a lot about George Washington Carver and his interest in regenerative agriculture and compost, and how he was a really prolific in bringing food justice to a lot of black communities and also regenerating soil in a radical way. Even at that time, the industrialized community was really messing things up for agriculture. So he was really big about making the soil living and bringing composting properly and making sure that there is a diversity in the soil and we're not monochropping
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