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Technically before The Road, from 11 years ago (2011) Two 24"x36 canvases with oil paint on um

I think I know why I get so upset every time I hear someone say that "Humans are social..." or "Humans need social interaction". Growing up, my immediate family, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Great-Grandparents, etc., spent so much time just trying to survive while getting overlooked by corporate America, missed by services designed to "help", and not really having each other to lean on because we had to disperse across the country in order to find work with enough money to live on while dodging persecution for being the wrong color and/or race that socializing was not a number 1 factor of life need. We were not wanted. We made our own way. Family was far away. The systems that were designed for US were made to make us feel less than human and kept us poor, in our place. Church was the main form of "socializing" that we had and even still, you had to find people with the same mindset as you had or it became awkward quick. We couldn't just show up in a new town or walk into a store or a restaurant and feel accepted. NO. You walked in with all eyes on you and security tailing your every move. And no...they never looked like us so you knew you were not wanted. Especially when it was automatically assumed that you would be paying with food stamps so they would point out the sign on the counter right before you handed them cash. Everywhere that you worked, the employees would comment about your hair because it wasn't straight or long. It would never be the same person, but when you are the only one that doesn't look like them in an office building of over a thousand people and one person has to make a comment each day, you're looking at nearly 3 years of the same comment over and over again. Then laws HAD to be passed to make it legal to wear braids in the office place or to be able to be treated like "regular" people and you get asked about it as if you were the one who made them create and pass the laws. (I found out about them at the same time you did.) Now you get looked at like you are expecting special treatment. I'm not saying everyone had the same experiences, but when you are treated like a plague on society for the majority of your life and people getting upset at you because your race wanted to be treated like human beings, you definitely question why someone keeps shoving it down your throat that you MUST be SOCIAL because you are HUMAN and we NEED it. All I think every time I hear that is YOU DO YOU BOO! 😑

Miss my WASR-10/AK-47, it was a poor choice to sell the only gun registered in my name, plus I cant fit my AR in a suitcase lol. Maybe time to convert AR to a folding stock.