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Many people are familiar with the Sears Catalog, but not many people know its role in combating Jim Crow racism in America. PurchasingMany people are familiar with the Sears Catalog, but not many people know its role in combating Jim Crow racism in America. Purchasing everyday household goods in America during Jim Crow, was often an exercise in humiliation for African Americans living in the South. Before the advent of the mail-order catalog, rural black southerners typically only had the option of shopping at white-owned general stores.

White store owners fiercely defended the white supremacist order by making black customers wait until every white customer had been served and forcing them to buy lower-quality goods. In 1894, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. began sending out 322-page illustrated catalogs. The catalog allowed African Americans in southern states to avoid price-gouging and condescending treatment at their local stores.

This gave African-Americans in the south some degree of autonomy because now they could buy the same things that white people could buy, and all they had to do is order it from the catalog. They didn't have to deal with racist merchants in town. The company has even been credited with contributing to the development of a unique genre of black southern music, called the Delta blues.

There would not have been the Delta Blues if there were no cheap, readily available steel-string guitars. Sears guitars transformed American music culture, by providing the cheapest harmony producing instruments to the rural South. The Sears catalog offered black shoppers something that they couldn't find anywhere else: Dignity.

(Source:  ~Derek Mosley)  

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How to Make Almond Milk
/Homemade Almond Milk is so easy to make! It doesn't require many ingredients, it tastes so much fresher,How to Make Almond Milk
Homemade Almond Milk is so easy to make! It doesn't require many ingredients, it tastes so much fresher, and in my opinion it has more of a pure almond flavor than store bought. You'll be savoring every sip!

#Almonds #MapleSyrup #Salt #VanillaExtract

Servings: 4 servings (4 cups)
Ready in: 12 hours 5 minutes
Prep: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups almonds (with skins or blanched)
6 cups filtered water, chilled, divided
1 Tbsp maple syrup (optional)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp sea salt

Instructions:
1. Place almonds in a bowl, add 2 cups water or enough to cover by 1-inch. Let rest 12 to 24 hours at room temperature.
2. Drain almonds in a colander or strainer. Transfer to a high speed blender.
3. Add 4 cups water. Cover and blend on moderately high speed until finely ground about 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Pour mixture through a clean nut bag or a clean kitchen tea towel set over a bowl (with all edges of the cloth hanging over bowl). Pull top string of bag to seal closed or wrap corners of tea towel up and twist top to close. Strain and squeeze to extract all the liquid.
5. Discard solids (or save the pulp for another use such as smoothies or bake something with it). Add maple syrup if using, vanilla extract and sea salt then stir well.
6. Store almond milk in fridge in an airtight container (it usually lasts from 3 to 5 days).

Notes:
Chocolate Almond Milk
To make homemade chocolate almond milk prepare as directed increasing vanilla to 1 tsp.
Return prepared almond milk to a clean blender and blend in 1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa powder and 1/3 cup maple syrup (or more to taste).
You can also use another sweetener of your choice such as honey, sugar, stevia (remember a little goes a long way!) or medjool dates. 
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The world wasted 17% of all available food at the consumer level (e.g. homes/stores) in 2019, says the UN.

That is:
🍎 1The world wasted 17% of all available food at the consumer level (e.g. homes/stores) in 2019, says the UN.

That is:
🍎 1 billion tons
🥪 121 kg per person per year
🥦 Enough to circle the planet 7 times

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AN OLD FARMER'S ADVICE:

1. Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong.
2. Keep skunks and bankers at aAN OLD FARMER'S ADVICE:

1. Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong.
2. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
3. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
4. A bumblebee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
5. Words that soak into your ears are whispered- not yelled.
6. Meanness don't just happen overnight.
7. Forgive your enemies- it messes up their heads.
8. Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
9. It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
10. You cannot unsay a cruel word.
11. Every path has a few puddles.
12. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
13. The best sermons are lived, not preached.
14. Most of the stuff people worry about ain't ever going to happen anyway.
15. Don't judge folks by their relatives.
16. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
17. Live a good, honorable life. Then, when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
18. Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering you.
19. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
20. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
21. Sometimes you get- and sometimes you get got.
22. The biggest troublemaker you'll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
23. Always drink upstream from the herd.
24. Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
25. Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin it back in.
26. If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
27. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
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