Mid-20th Century Americana

 

By kiki

This photo depicts America as I knew it in the middle of the 20th Century. It was also the America that Connie and I witnessed during our trip to get married in Yuma, Arizona, in 1954 via America's then two-lane roads. For better or worse, America was, in many ways, in a transitional period. For many of us, it was a farewell to innocence; for others (despite seeing 'Whites Only" signs in Yuma), it was the beginning of a long-overdue time of getting their right to be treated as equals. America has come a long way in race relations, but we have yet to be there.

 Rant on Facebook bullshit

I'm writing this rant from my Facebook jail cell: I was sentenced to a 24 hrs time-out by the Facebook bosses for trying to post a Youtube video on my sister's Marina page. (she is fighting Covid) Through a Q & A session, the video had a doctor explaining vitamin D3, how it works on the body, and how it helps combat the Covid-19 virus. Well, the Facebook bosses, in their infinite wisdom, threw my brown ass in their jail. They accused me of spreading Covid-19 misinformation. They said that I was not following Facebook community standards. What community standards, I ask! After turning a blind eye to 4 years of lying from trump's supporters (some are today still saying here on Facebook that the election was stolen), the Facebook bosses came up with standards against a vitamin D3 video I tried to post in good faith? BULLSHIT, I say!! And I'll repeat it again, BULLSHIT!! - We, who have suffered early on from the Covid-19, try to help those that are now suffering, and for the Facebook bosses to say that we're, when we really are not, spreading disinformation is just plain wrong.  

If I am kicked out of Facebook, I can say to you, friends, that it is nice to have known you.